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Offline krivxTopic starter

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Copying/duplicating Layout Portions in pcbnew/Kicad
« on: September 04, 2015, 06:58:54 am »
I just came up against a problem and I am curious as to how other people tackle this in their Kicad workflow. I have a few circuit "blocks" that I want to reuse across multiple pcbs (e.g. switching supply layouts) and sometimes multiple times on the same layouts (e.g. multiple amplifiers all with the same parts and layouts for consistency). What is the easiest way to reuse and duplicate layouts? And how are people doing this in a way to keep things in line with schematic layouts? Cheers.
 

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Re: Copying/duplicating Layout Portions in pcbnew/Kicad
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2015, 09:13:39 am »
Try saving each block into a seperate project (also save the schematic and board in their own files as well). In the latest builds of Kicad I think you can append a schematic as well as a PCB. However I think you have to open EESchema and PCBnew indepedently of the Kicad project manager in order to append schematics and Pcb's.
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Re: Copying/duplicating Layout Portions in pcbnew/Kicad
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2015, 03:16:28 am »
Try saving each block into a seperate project (also save the schematic and board in their own files as well). In the latest builds of Kicad I think you can append a schematic as well as a PCB. However I think you have to open EESchema and PCBnew indepedently of the Kicad project manager in order to append schematics and Pcb's.

Why is needed to do that? Black magic? I don't get it, it's disturbing.
 

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Re: Copying/duplicating Layout Portions in pcbnew/Kicad
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2015, 07:32:15 pm »
It is a safety measure so you don't accidentally screw up your project. It was in regular kicad operation mode on purpose until a better solution can be implemented.
 


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