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karpouzi9:
You can of course lay out multiple PCBs within a single schematic and project in KiCAD. You'll just have to create two separate board outlines and ignore any errors that come with having more than one closed Edge.Cuts layer. You also will have to one of the boards at a time to get valid Gerber exports.

It's significantly better to reuse hierarchical schematic sub-sheets between two projects via symbolic links.

hpw:

--- Quote from: Benta on March 05, 2023, 10:16:48 pm ---
I'm a passionate advocate for using personal libraries anyway.

--- End quote ---

Well, using 7.01...

1) I created a personal Symbol & personal Footprint library with matched footprints related to to personal Symbol Lib.
In mind, I need different footprints as stock, so I have my own in case any footprint changes.

2) Now, created schematic and PCB as a first trial.

3) Then did split my personal Symbol & personal Footprint library for any better as moving the elements from one to the other personal library and may rename some elements. This is/was any easy task.

4) Now, as opening the trial schematic & PCB... this went into some nightmare as the elements are "Named Based" links not as object or as GUI-ID's.

5) Conclusion: Organize your librar(y/ies) in mind, while later on, it will be a disaster or high work to update your schematic(s) or PCB(s) as using your new organized personal libraries.  :palm:

Or I am wrong  ;D


 

Benta:
I've no idea what you mean. Perhaps this helps (yes, I know it's 6.0, but there's no real difference):
https://forum.kicad.info/t/kicad-6-beginners-guide-to-personal-symbol-and-footprint-libraries/38738
https://forum.kicad.info/t/kicad-6-tips-n-tricks-when-making-personal-symbol-libraries/39215

hpw:

--- Quote from: Benta on March 21, 2023, 11:05:18 pm ---I've no idea what you mean. Perhaps this helps (yes, I know it's 6.0, but there's no real difference):
https://forum.kicad.info/t/kicad-6-beginners-guide-to-personal-symbol-and-footprint-libraries/38738
https://forum.kicad.info/t/kicad-6-tips-n-tricks-when-making-personal-symbol-libraries/39215

--- End quote ---

Here the text from first link:

Personal libraries allow you to create, modify, import and use symbols as you like.


Take a little time to plan the naming of Personal Libraries. Reorganizing and recreating libraries sometime in the future because of poor original planning is an irksome task.

While this means, having already a large project, keep the library mess with this/those project(s), reorganize and use those reorganized libraries ONLY for NEW projects.

karpouzi9:
At the end of the day, the libraries are all text files. You can edit them with a text editor much faster than you can use the import/export dialog in the GUI.

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