Could you please inform me regarding creating cell array, for example, an array containing 800 x 600 of my pixel design in the schematic design tool?
To clarify: you want to have a logo printed on the board?
Eeschema already has bitmap import capabilities for schematic pages. AFAIK it will load your image and embed it in the schematic file as a byte-encoded PNG file.
Is that what you are looking for?
Or maybe each pixel is an LED, and he’s making an LED cube (or something similar)… guessing the question is so much fun 
thanks for your replies, but I mean repeating schematic cell, for example in the array by 800x600. yes just Imagine each cell is an LED. is this supported in KiCAD?
Not directly. You can do something like nested subsheets to define all the LEDs, but it would be horribly slow, and you’d run out of memory.
I’d build smaller modules that can be combined, this would also make it easier to maintain.
You may consider a scripting language to build the (textual) .sch file, but with 800 x 600 components (at least), not sure KiCad will be able to handle it !
Fine, thanks for your help.
Assuming we are talking about an array of LEDs, which may not be the case, and assuming a generic LED in an 0402 package. The footprint is 1.6mm x 0.7mm, allowing a little clearance and the “cells” are 1.8mm x 0.9mm without allowing for any tracks. Your board would be 720mm x 1080mm. How were you planning to make such a board? And do they even make P&P machines that large? Hand placing 480,000 0402 LEDs would be fun. And assuming you could make it that would be one expensive board.
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