Copying a component already on the schematic

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Folks,

It used to be that you could hover a a symbol on schematic, hit C and it would make a new copy of the symbol you could then pace anywhere else on the page. That is not working on v7.0.1 on Linux for me. I now have to click on it, hit CTL-C and then CTL-V.

Has this function been lost, or is there bug or maybe even is there some extra setup in v7 you need to do to make this work? This was such a great and useful feature.

Thanks :slight_smile:

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Ctrl + C & Ctrl + V still Copies and Pastes in the current 8.0.1.

7.0.1 was a very early version of 7. It, like all early versions of a new major release, had many bugs. That may have been one bug.
Try the latest version of 7, the 7.0.11, or upgrade even further to the current 8.0.1.

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Thanks, so the function’s not been lost, that’s good.

Am at the mercy of my Linux distribution which I love very much, but for specialist packages like this, am unlikely to get an upgrade for a year or so, sadly.

Thanks again for the reply.

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What Linux distribution? 7.0.1 is over a year old. Kicad releases a bug fix package every month or so.

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In KiCad V7.0.11 when I right-click at symbol one of options is “Duplicate Ctrl+D”.

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Mageia. I really, really should get involved and become package manager as I am likely the one person out of all Mageia users who uses it the most.

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Ah, this works for me, thank you. You con’t even have to select the component or right click.

I wonder whether in previous editions I’d just reassigned CTL-D to C for it work with fewer keypresses. It’s a function I used so much I might have done that and simply forgotten I’d done it.

Have now resassigned it to C and it works a treat.

It is, I suppose a better description, duplicate, than copy.

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Kicad 7 & 8 each offer nearly 600 functions that can be assigned hotkeys. It pays to spend a few minutes browsing through the list to see what is available.

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You not. I have V5 still installed and hotkey C works.
From V5 to V6 schematic and PCB interfaces were standardized as much as possible.
And the fast and easy key C fell victim to this standardization. Now in schematic and PCB there is more difficult to use Ctrl+D (duplicate).
The story of hotkey C looks sad as in schematic you frequently need to duplicate a symbol, while in PCB you never duplicate a footprint (as they come from updating to schematic) :slight_smile:

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