Hello and Happy New Year!
I’ve updated the KiCAD to v6 and most of old (from v5) projects seems to be OK, but one of them shows the error window after shematic gets opened: Drawing sheet ‘empty.kicad_wks’ not found.
This window can be closed, but the schematic editor shows the message: ‘Error loading drawing sheet’.
What’s the problem?
If possible you may have to upload the project for someone to investigate if it isn’t a ‘private’ work. You’re now a regular user to make that possible.
Looks like that project had a custom sheet template empty.kicad_wks which shows in the .kicad_pro file.
“page_layout_descr_file”: “empty.kicad_wks”,
Is it somewhere in the old project’s files? If you don’t mind not having an empty sheet template (I’m guessing without the title block), you could edit the project to use the default template.
Hello @Radist
It seems you have upgraded to 6.99 not 6.0.0
I also noticed on the LHS of your schematic a non Kicad drawing. Maybe that is the problem.
Yes, I attached v5 version to this message.
U2010.ZIP (257.4 KB)
Which template do you mean? Frame+title block?
(In principle, I’d like to get rid of this annoying frame with a title block as in schematic, as in layout editor, but, if I’m not mistaken, it’s not possible 
)
No, of course 
I have the regular v6.0.
No, this is a regular bitmap image inserted in a regular way.
You have to figure out how to instruct the schematic editor to substitute your template for the default one. I haven’t used user defined templates myself but it can be done. There might even be a setting for where it will look for the user templates. Maybe someone else can give you a more comprehensive answer.
That’s right, it’s not possible, and that’s one of the little quirks of KiCad. You need to create an empty worksheet (.kicad.wks) for that, and if you want it to be available always to a project, you should copy it to the project folder and refer to that copy. Otherwise it gets lost when the setup is changed or the project is shared, and the default worksheet is used. It’s possible to change the KiCad’s default worksheet, but the problem remains: when the KiCad setup is changes for example by updating or when the project is moved to another machine, the changed worksheet is lost and instead of nice page with just a schematic or a layout, you have in the worst case a large ugly title block overlapping your design.
As retiredfeline already said, it looks like you have had the worksheet file in the project but it’s not found anymore. If you add the file back, it should work.
Well, I just cleared the wks-file path in Page Settings window and everything gets OK.
Thanks for participation.
I started a gitlab issue that has not made it for v6. I would like the worksheet to be embedded into the schematic file. This way it is included when sharing the project.
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