One thing that could help me is the ability to manually relink footprints and symbols. I tried a lot of workflows, using append board, hierarchical sheets, editng the files in text editor but I was not able to find a better solution. I find this cumbersome and error prone but it is the simplest workflow that I have found.Īm I missing some sort of elephant in the room? Update destination PCB to match its schematic Reannotate the newly pasted components to have deisgnators to match the numbering schema used in the new project Update the source PCB to reflect the reannotated designators Reannotate the project to use some unique designators And it drives me crazy that I know that internally KiCad uses such identifiers but somehow they are not used while copy/paste… It may also happen that I did not select all all the same components in two separate copy/paste operations.Īnd all that because the reference designators are not globally unique - that is a really frustrating for me as I am more software developer than electronics person and I know the importance of the principle of having globally unique identifiers. But all this get me little unease as I do not feel safe that the components does not get mixed up between schematic and PCB. I can use the “paste special” and force all the copied in objects to reassign designators. Then in PCB editor the designators does not get reassigned (or maybe I did something wrong). However when I paste in the schema the components get reassigned reference designators. Now it is possible and there is even the Paste special option. If I am not mistaken in version 5.x it was not possible to copy/paste from different projects at all. However I was not able to find a consistent and safe way how to do it… This is a thing that in this day and age should not take more than few minutes. it used to have external power supply and now I need to include my own). Then I need to copy a piece of one of them (i.e. I have two projects - both are functional and works. Is there an easy and safe way how to do it? One of them is the ability to copy from one project to another - both schematic and PCB. I love using KiCad but there are few things that drives me crazy.
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