Altium to KiCad not exporting full defined circuits to pcb editor

[anderwm]

I didn’t import the project in it’s entirety. However, I imported the schematic with eeschema and imported the layout with pcbnew. Then I saved those and created a new Kicad project with them. If you are having problems with even that, then it must be something specific to your design.

[paulvdh]

@anderwm

I didn’t import the project in it’s entirety. However, I imported the schematic with eeschema and imported the layout with pcbnew. Then I saved those and created a new Kicad project with them.

I think the best workflow is:

1. Create a new KiCad project.
2. Import the altium schematic and altium PCB.
3. Use the Match by RefDes method during [F8] to connect schematic symbols with PCB footprints.

I do not understand this:

@Beppone

As soon I’v done the same stuff for the second , kicad isn’t lettin’ me using the "import footprints from schematic (f8 button) tool. neither it worked for the third one.

In KiCad you can only have 1 (hierarchical) schematic and 1 PCB in a project. Create a new KiCad project for each altium pcb. (Does altium support multiple PCB’s in a single project?)

[Beppone]

I never used Altium so i can’t help you, the only thing I know is: as soon I’ve started a new project with it’s relative folder, kicad let me import 3 schematics in a single project and let me also made the PCB files…

But only one of those (PCB files) worked importing the footprints from the schematic. ( working on this version: Version: 7.99.0-2479-g30a6d33177, release build)

So my main problem could be I need to create a single project for each schematic…

But now I went and downloaded version: 7.99.0-2684-g11de95778b, release build,

and now I’m not able to import even one schematic with this version. F***

[Beppone]

As soon as I can i’ll try this out and update you, thanks for the tip

[Beppone]

@paulvdh ur doubt was my solution, kicad won’t let u create more than one pcb per project, but also I didn’t knew it would let u import as many schematics as u want. Solved creating 3 different projects… so dumb mistake yet so difficult to understand. thanks everybody for suggestions and replies!