How to copy a schematic between projects

[Giorgio]

I don’t find a way to simply copy a schematic from and old project to a new one. But it seems a workaround exists.

@bobc

I think that is unchanged in v5, there is a sort of workaround procedure (should be FAQ?)1. Open destination project2. Use “Append sheet” to copy sheet from source project3. Copy/paste within project4. If no longer needed, delete appended sheet

Tried to follow but I found problems:

1. searching for schematic to append KiCad don’t see *.sch file. I have to manually copy the whole path
2. “old” schematic is immediately copied in new schematic, sometime over the existing one. No way to copy and paste
3. simbols coming from my libraries are substituted for that coming from "official libraries

[Rene_Poschl]

@Giorgio

simbols coming from my libraries are substituted for that coming from "official libraries

For kicad v4 stable:
Either make sure your symbols are named uniquely over all libs or make sure your own libs have a higher priority than the symbols of other libs.

Any conflict with names of modules and libraries?

yes The following rules apply though: For symbols: A symbol needs to have a unique name over all symbol libraries. If you have two symbols with the same name in the same library, kicad will complain. If you have two symbols with the same name in different libs, kicad will use the one from the lib with the highest priority. (The priority is determined from the position of the library in the component lib dialog. See screenshot.) Something similar applies to symbol library names and directori…

This is one of the problems solved by the symbol library table stuff that is already in the nightly version