modify 1000 vias

[eric_engineer]

I have a board and I'd like to change the drill size on 1000 vias. It's not easy to visually select these because there are a lot of other vias in the field.  Is there a filter or a command that would let me find them all by drill size maybe? And then modify it all at once?  Or like other tools, is there a vias list somewhere that I can just change?

Thank you,

-Eric

[Evert_2N3055 · Accepted solution]

In the selection filter choose in types only the vias

Then select the area or whole board you want to change, only the via's are now selected as you will see.

Open the inspector tab. On the bottom of the tab sort and select the via's you want to change. You can sort by drill size.

On the top half of the inspector change the drill diameter.

 

[eric_engineer]

actually this did not work for me.  trying to change the drill size it just says property change failed if I have multiple selected.

[Evert_2N3055]

Most likely you try to increase the drill size. When increasing the drill size the outer diameter of the via also change.
This will give an drc violate error shown as the Property change error. Most likely because the via's are to close now to something else.

You can solve this in 2 ways.

Switch of the realtime drc check by clicking in the middle bottom of the screen on Ignore violators (or alt+i). The you can change all 1000 via at the same time.

However you need to run the drc yourself after that and correct all the error's manually. This can be 1, 2, 200 or maybe 999 via's that need to be made error free.

The other option is to set in the upper half of the inspector window the via diameter not to auto but choose the outer diameter yourself. This chosen diameter should not be much bigger then the auto function did.
When also change the via drill diameter check to be sure if the via's still meet the drc and your boardhouse requirements.