OK what am I doing worng? Can anyone make a template that somehow aligns with the page limits? My .png and .wks files are posted above, or make your own rectangle.
Hard to believe I am the only one who has tried this…recently?
I have not done this for > 1 year, but I will attempt to file a bug report in 12 hours or so if nobody can figure this out.
I’ve never bothered to make my own title block. Use the Kicad one.
If the page is getting congested I will change paper size. Usually start with A4, mostly end up on A3, a couple of times been to A2.
The Schematic paper size has no bearing on what comes out of the printer, if you are into printing schematics, except the symbols are pretty small if Schematic is on an A2 sheet and you print to an A4 sheet.
Copy / paste I found useful for duplicating parts of one project into another.
example:
pagelayout_bobz_v03.kicad_wks (22.6 KB)
You have to adapt the width/height of both rectangles on the bottom right side to your needs.
Looked also at your dws-file. Your imported shape was false positioned.
modified:
Bobs_A_Sheet_03_modified.kicad_wks (32.6 KB)
Note that with your solution the dws-file is only working with one page-size, your original choosen size “A”.
With the “imported shape” you completely loose the option to flexible adapt the working sheet to different page sizes.
Not quite accurate. The schematic paper size is noted in the PDF that is generated. It so happens that most printing setups when say given an A5 PDF for an A4 printer, will automatically do the sensible thing and scale to fit, rather than printing on ¼ of the sheet.
The Schematic paper size has no bearing on what comes out of the printer
That’s not true. I just checked to be sure with my statement. (with virtual pdf printer driver). The printout only includes the area of the defined page-size. Every item outside of the choosen pagesize (so outside of the white rectangle in the pictures above) is not printed.
Well, I forgot about that. Not much into printing.
I checked my printer. It asks me if I want the output scaled to fit. I have a polite printer.
Hi @mf_ibfeew ,
Sorry, my comment was about the Kicad defined sheet sizes. I should have been more specific. It is getting past my bed time. I’d better rest my fingers before I make any more blunders. 
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I had not previously noticed that there is a drawing sheet editor… 
Dude! You need to look around when partying! 
I looked into this thread a moment ago and reading all the posts I was thinking that at the end I will cite a sentence from first post and ask why you didn’t just edit sheet with sheet editor.
When I considering using KiCad first what I have done was checking how to get documentation files I need and the second was to edit my sheet for schematic and to delete sheet from PCB editor. With this second task I had a problem (KiCad V4, don’t know how with V7) as when I edited sheet to be empty then default sheet was used and when I deleted sheet definition file also the default sheet was used. I ended with small cross at 0,0 position. During last 6 years I was writing about it several times. You should have seen it.
Hi, Piotr
It would be very unlikely for me to remember something which another forum member wrote a year ago. This is especially true if I did not find the the topic to be particularly interesting at the time. I often forget what I did two weeks ago. I look at a perfectly good working design I did a year ago and think “How does that work?”
Before my initial post I did search the FAQ about schematic sheets and found nothing I was looking for. When I typed my topic, the forum auto-recommended posts based upon similar words but I did not find that any of those were helpful.
Clearly the drawing sheet editor is so obvious that nobody needs help with it. But I had not noticed that it existed…
It’s on the front page of the project launcher.
Now, does anybody know where I can find a current capacity calculator tool? 
Current capacity is easy. Future capacity is more challenging.
Since 2 weeks I am editing perfectly working piece of (as for me complicated) C++ code that I have written 10 years ago. Reading each comment I wonder what kind of idiot wrote that that he thought it was clear what he wrote.
I would probably also not notice its existence (I use only first 4 KiCad applications and don’t know the rest) if not my unusual approach to new software. Before even downloading KiCad I collected all documentation pdfs and read them all. My mistake was that I assumed they were up to date why they really were about KiCad 3 when current version was 4.0.6 and when I decided to download it was 4.0.7.
But after reading those pdfs I knew about drawing sheet editor (separate pdf) and knew that it is better to not install KiCad in default directory because Windows blocks access to it while those time some user configuration (in form of default project) was there.
I must admit that I don’t notice these things either. Usually when you need something and start searching you will start seeing that something after Google points you at it. Hidden in plain sight
When I was new with kicad I quickly ‘found’ the buttons for schematic editor and pcb editor, and not long after I also ‘found’ symbol and footprint editors.
That there were calculator tools, sheet editors, plugin managers and image converters. I didn’t notice really. Could not care less at the time. The gerber viewer I did notice.
I’ll go click on ‘Drawing sheet editor’ and ‘calculator tools’ now. I cannot recall having done that before 
I knew of the Drawing Sheet Editor . . . but it was always a job for tomorrow, well your thread has inspired to make today tomorrow
I have a question for those who know more about this Editor than I do . . .
I want to add a field for the name/initials of the person that has made the schematic, I’m guessing I can’t simply add a new field ? assuming I can’t is there a nice way of adding some text to the template that can then be edited on the schematic while its being drawn ? so a user would replace the text with his/her initials ? this would keep the txt in the correct position and correct size.
I was doing it 6 years ago so don’t remember, but as in File-Page Settings there are Comment1…Comment9 and In my Sheet Comment1 and Comment2 are used (I probably copied it simply from default sheet) so nothing should be against using rest of them.
Edit.
But…
Looking into my kicad_wks file I don’t see how it is linked to those texts.
I see %C1 in file but don’t see %C2 but I certainly have Comment1 and Comment2 copied to my sheet.
Yup, just saw the available fields and have decided to use $[COMMENT9} for now . . .
Thank you.
with a liberal use of test variables you can do some pretty stuff:
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