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    Posted: 31 Jul 2017 at 6:01pm
In the Footprint Designer. if you change the hole size and regenerate the pad stack, thermal and anti-pads are not recalculated correctly.
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We'll have to wait on this one until Jeff gets back from vacation on Monday August 21.

In the meantime, all the values are user definable manually until the automatic functions are fixed. 

What I would do as a workaround, create a new pad stack with the correct Hole Size and delete the wrong one.
 
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Assuming you mean the pad stack manager (not pad stack designer) - where you can individually and directly change any element of a pad stack - the thermals are not recalculated.  In fact nothing is calculated.  All pad stack component changes must be manually entered.
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It is in FP designer. When you enter a new thru hole padstack the thermals and anti-pads are calculated. When you change the hole size they are not recalculated.
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When you change the Hole Size where? 
  1. The Pad Stack Designer?
  2. The Pad Stack Manager?
The pad stack should always update if when you change the Hole Size in the Pad Stack Designer. 

The Pad Stack Manager is to allow the user to "Off-Road" and ALL pad stack values must be manually changed. 

This is a feature, not a bug. 
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OK. Understand. I did not realize there were two screens that looked the same but operated differently.
 
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