XIAO on assembled board

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I want to have a PCB with a XIAO ESP32 built in. I grabbed the SMD footprint from the Seeed OPL library and made a quick prototype. It looks like this:

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(I did remove the inside pads so Aisler is happier).

I pushed it to Aisler through the KiCad plugin and it tells me I have one THT component, the XIAO. Why is that? Would it be a problem? According to Seeed there is no problem soldering like this.

Since this is a very (very!) rough sketch, I am happy to share all the files.

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Hi there David :waving_hand:

This is caused because the footprint type is set to Undefined you can set it to SMD within KiCad under the Attributes section, and it will be recognized correctly.

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We use the information about the type of footprint for calculating the assembly cost, so if you want to get your boards assembled, you should update the parameter as described above to get accurate pricing. If you just want to get PCBs, you can safely ignore it.