wiadro
March 22, 2023, 8:46pm
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Hi, i just wanted to know if this is an option in kicad, i cant seem to find the way to do it, any help is appreciated!
Simple answer:
It’s currently not supported by KiCad.
More complex answer:
It’s a common request and multiple people have experimented with different ways to do this (including myself)
Maybe the link below is a starting point to get results, but there may be better search terms.
We’re busy creating some standards for Kicad work in our team, and I’ve come to how we manage multiple PCBs. There are many threads discussing various strategies for various purposes, so I’m hoping to collate the summaries in one thread here.
AFAIK, there are three major reasons you’d want to have multiple PCBs per project:
There are physical variations on the same schematic (eg. prototype and production, or form factor variants).
Your schematic needs to be split into multiple PCBs.
You have …
wiadro
March 22, 2023, 9:02pm
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ah :C thanks for the heads up tho
Sometimes I wonder if it’s a good idea to make a feature request for this on gitlab. It will probably just sit there for a few years and collect “thumbs up”. Maybe some people will start adding good idea’s for implementing it too…
greg_m
March 22, 2023, 10:11pm
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I like this workflow described by @set a few months ago:
As I’ll be exploring something related I created a very simple example of 1 schematic with 2 different PCBs.
The idea is simple, we have 1 real schematic and two projects that just uses a hierarchy to include the real one. For ilustration our PCBs will be one circular and the other rectangular. Here are the schematics (almost identical, just different root sheet)
Schematic.pdf (23.9 KB)
Schematic.pdf (23.0 KB)
But here are the PCBs:
PCB_1-assembly.pdf (72.3 KB)
PCB_2-assembly.pdf …
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June 20, 2023, 10:11pm
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