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Not just a bad idea, a terrible idea.

Change all your pins on your schematic back to their correct numbers and join them to wires connected to Gnd. symbols. Change all your pads on your footprint back to their correct numbers and join them all together with tracks or a Gnd. plane.

The reasons being:
you don’t know if all those Gnds. are joined externally to ...

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Ahh, sorry. The 12mm Tacktile Button.FCStd is the FC version of

1119-12mm-TactileSwitch.step (120.8 KB)

For KiCAD, I renamed the model to “PushButton 12x12”

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Hundred1906:

The GPIO pinout includes multiple GND pins and to simplify routing

No. Bad idea. There are good reasons why it has so many GND pins. The only good way is to make a GND plane and connect all the GND pins directly to this GND plane.

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Anyway, it works on my side with your kc & fc files.

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for your ‘footprint "Button_Switch_THT:SW_PUSH-12mm’

you have configured two 3d models:

(model “${KICAD9_3DMODEL_DIR}/Button_Switch_THT.3dshapes/SW_PUSH-12mm.step”

and

(model “C:/Users/xxxxx/Documents/KiCad/Libraries/3dmodels/PushButton 12x12 4pin.step”

you have posted instead a 3dmodel in FCStd format

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