Hello, your intend is one of my reasons why I started learning KiCAD although I am still using another ECAD software which I used for years.
KiCAD community here is used to consider the “hierarchical” project is only for splitting a large schematic into the multiple sheets. Yet , the current development of KiCAD came close to the level where it will allow making a large schematic for the project consisting of multiple PCBs. This brings a huge advantage to have a complete single schematic for a multi-board large project.
For ex. in my project I have a complete schematic “all-in-one” place consisting of multiple PCB modules mounted on the motherboard.
The pointers for us to work toward this goal are these:
- Hierarchical PCB generation - Layout - KiCad.info Forums describes quite a manual workaround but still doable.
- Another way to use plugins “Replicate Layout” or “Save/Restore Layout” , both are tested and available for V.7.0
My procedure I am to try is this: - Making a complete hierarchical schematic
- Making PCBs with isolated blocks representing single sheets (see how to in the 1st forum link above)
- Use a plugin to Replicate your individual sheets layout and paste it into the new project PCB to generate manufacturing files…
Something along these lines
I hope we’ll get there