Hello,
I have an EAGLE board and schematic that I want to import to KiCAD 7.0. Importing seemed straightforward enough and I have a KiCAD project with the correct schematic and board, but the nets are not updating correctly.
When I hit update PCB from schematic it regenerates all the components in an unplaced arrangement, but I don’t want this since I already have the board designed. When I click the components on the PCB they are not a part of any net but KiCAD selects the corresponding part on the schematic, so the two seem linked. How can I update the PCB to match the netlist without generating and placing new components?
Thank you, it is not regenerating the parts again now! Not all the nets are updating though it seems. Do I just need to add these manually or is there another way to update the nets or a reason that the nets are not updating properly?
The Eagle importer has some issues dealing with net names.
One issue I’ve come across is that the PCB tracks keep the Eagle-defined net names, while the schematic loses all non-global net names. I have not noticed any unconnected nets or tracks, but my use cases are likely different than yours.
Is your design proprietary, or could you upload both the original Eagle and imported KiCad projects so someone can take a look at them? I have Eagle 7.7.0, and I’m somewhat familiar with the Eagle XML file formats.
That seems to have been the problem, some nets added correctly but others didn’t transfer and I just added them manually. It is proprietary unfortunately, but I really appreciate the offer and help!
