# Through hole pad size change?

**URL:** <https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/through-hole-pad-size-change/878>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [January 22, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/through-hole-pad-size-change/878 "2025-01-22T22:11:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Grzewik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/librepcb.discourse.group/grzewik/32/714_2.png) [@Grzewik](https://librepcb.discourse.group/u/Grzewik)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/through-hole-pad-size-change/878/1 "2025-01-22T22:11:05Z")

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Hello,

Im experimenting with etching some PCBs at home, and I used LibrePCB to design.  
My question is, is it possible to change the size of the through hole pads in the components footprints?

They are a bit small for me and my drill, and a tiny size increase would be nice.

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**Author:** ![ubruhin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c89c15/32.png) [@ubruhin](https://librepcb.discourse.group/u/ubruhin)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 9:16am UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/through-hole-pad-size-change/878/2 "2025-01-25T09:16:29Z")

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Hi,  
This is currently not possible. The only way would be to modify each package in the libraries but this would also affect all future projects and it is not really practical to do (especially for the read-only libraries installed with the library manager).