Basic new user question. I have hundreds of Eagle projects and when importing into KICad v6.0.5-0 MacOS pieces of the Eagle frame are imported but not the title block/ When I go to Page Settings and select a new frame size, it does not insert a frame nor title block although the title block information has been filled out.
Eagle has frames as a component which can be deleted, inserted, etc. I do not see frames or title blocks in KiCad but maybe I am just looking in the wrong library section.
Any suggestions? BTW I thought the frame and title block were created when importing with earlier KiCad versions. Switched to 6 recently.
There is apparently difference in concept here.
In KiCad, the drawing sheet is nothing like a schematic symbol.
In KiCad, the drawing sheet is a separate entity, created with a separate program. It is the “Drawing Sheet Editor”, and you can start it from the Project Manager as the 2nd from the bottom program in the list:
In KiCad, you always have to have some graphic items on your sheet. If you delete all graphics from a drawing sheet, then KiCad inserts a default sheet. (Which is a feature I do not particularly like).
You can select the drawing sheet used with: Schematic Editor / File / Page Settings, or use the icons in the gui that Black Coffee emphasized.
Alternatively, you can probably create a title block as a regular schematic symbol, and add fields to it that hold text strings. KiCad also the ability to use variable names for custom fields, and I think you can use these both on the schematic and on the PCB. So you could fill in a project name or a revision date in that title block, and then you can use the same text string on the PCB. I have not used this feature myself yet though and am not sure if it works.
I applied that to all sheets, then chose a custom sheet size for the one much-larger sheet (without applying to other sheets) and every page is now exactly as intended.
