“Design reuse” is a popular topic in the PCB press these days. In the near future, I have a board coming up that has 4 identical complex circuits. Once I complete one of the four, is there any way to duplicate the layout?
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But there is no built-in support yet for this in KiCad. However, you can manually copy parts of schematics between projects (or even include a hierarchical sheet from another project) and you can manually copy sections of a layout between different instances of the PCB Editor. either by the normal Copy & Paste, or by starting the PCB Editor in Standalone Mode, (That is without an active project). In this “Stand alone” mode some extra functions are enabled such as: File / Append Board in the main menu.
Also worth mentioning is the "Replicate Layout plugin in KiCad. This works only within a single project, and it’s intended use is for projects in which a sub section (on a hierarchical sheet) is implemented multiple times on a PCB, such as for example an opto coupler input for a PLC like circuit.
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There is also Save Restore Layout action plugin which implements snippets/design blocks feature
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