That would be very cool! Actually one of our users did something similar =) https://jasiek.me/2016/09/29/creating-footprints-from-actual-parts-in-kicad.html ht

That would be very cool! Actually one of our users did something similar =) https://jasiek.me/2016/09/29/creating-footprints-from-actual-parts-in-kicad.html https://jasiek.me/2016/09/29/creating-footprints-from-actual... The good news is that we've already done the work to extract pin dimensions, and then applied IPC calculations to them to make the footprint. So for standard ICs it's not necessary.