FAQ renaming a project

[HiGreg]

Here are the steps for renaming a project.

What is the best way to rename a project?

You should just care about the names of the files KiCad knows about : the .pro file the top level .sch file, it must be named like the .pro make sure that it you rename hierarchical sheet files you also change their symbols in their parent sheet the .kicad_pcb file, it must be named like the .pro your libraries shouldn’t change names if you don’t want to change each component This might also interest you: https://forum.kicad.info/t/putting-project-files-on-github/2337 Before comitting anyth…

[maui]

there is a nice python script from @bobc but it has not been completed for hierarchy projects

Script to rename/copy a project

If anyone is interested in some Python, I done a script This is in response to https://forum.kicad.info/t/how-to-up-issue-a-board/6331 It has a number of options, but in the sample case to copy a project to a different folder while renaming the project: python rename_project.py -d ver1 -t _v1 copy without rename python rename_project.py -d ver1 or if you just want to rename in place: python rename_project.py -n new_name To create a sub-folder with a date stamp e.g. ./2017…

BTW @HiGreg is it intentional that this topic is @lounge?

About the lounge category
A category exclusive to members with trust level 3 and higher.

[eelik]

Here are the relevant wishlist items:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/594051 (active; add a vote here)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1764088 (marked as duplicate)

There is hope it will be added before 6.0 release. Until that, use the help given in the posts above.

[davidsrsb]

@eelik

There is hope it will be added before 6.0 release.

I don’t see why not. Only file formats are sacred during a release lifecycle. Obviously V5.0.0 has to be released before it could be looked at.

[eelik]

UPDATE: Save Project As feature has been added to 5.99 (developement version leading to 6.0). It will not be added to 5.1.