I am a novice user of KiCad but I have successfully made an organized project (organized based on each subsystem) that has over 32 pages of schematic. This is a schematic-only project with no need for a PCB as it’s for automation related panels builds (five different panels inter-connected). I am using global variables for clarity to make it easier for someone to review the schematic - especially for techs who will build these panels and wire everything together.
My question - is there a way to include a table on sheets which use global variables, to show all page numbers on which such global variable is used? I ask because that way it would be easier for a tech to figure out where he/she needs to connect wires rather than having to go through all pages which would be a very time consuming task.
Or am I using KiCad for a purpose which it isn’t designed for?
I’m not sure what you mean by “global variables”. There are project-level text variables, and there are global labels. If you mean the later, then you can generate intersheet references which will list the sheets a global label is used on beside each instance of the global label.
See Schematic Setup > General > Formatting > Inter-sheet References
Thank you so much for the response - my apology, what you assumed is what I meant to ask about, the “global labels.” Thank you for the direction on how to set that up, that’s what I was looking for and it really helped!!!
Additional info for others: There are additional options in the settings mentioned by Jeff - it also allows you to customize reference text with pre & post suffix. For now I am using “(p” as pre and “)” as post-suffix such that each global label on my schematic now shows “(p##)” next to it, to show page numbers on which the global label is used. It is SO MUCH easier to read and use large schematics this way; these global labels make the schematic so much cleaner since there is a lot less wiring clutter.