Copy and paste sub-circuit 114 times

[paulvdh]

@zenerbjt

The only way I can see to do this is with hierarchical sheets, as that gives me the “subcircuit in a box

Yep.

@zenerbjt

however, that also produces a separate schem sheet for each box

Nope.

@zenerbjt

so please advise on how to do this?

You can re-use the same hierarchical sheet multiple times.

This is also the basis for the “replicate layout” script that helps a lot with, well, replicating the layout of one of the sub circuits on the PCB.

This link:

Need help using replicate_layout plugin

This evening I’ve experimented with this replicate layout script. I have never used, nor even installed any script in KiCad before, and therefore I consider myself an excellent newbie for commenting on the usability of the draft of this PDF tutorial. So I used the pdf as a guide to replicate some simple circuit and typed notes here as I went along, and afterwards read through these notes again for a bit of a cleanup. I’m using Linux Mint 19.3, so if it also works there, you can add it to your…

has a link to a pdf with a tutorial for using the “Replicate Layout” script. It probably also handles the part of re-using a schematic sheet in a hierarchical design, but I’m not sure about that.