I have one schematic with two possible layouts. How can I have two different layouts in the same project? Currently I have two projects, but now the schematic which is identical must be duplicated.
KiCAD is currently not capable of that afaik.
It’s a one schematic (mutlitple pages though) to one layout to one set of gerbers tool.
There are ways to introduce other projects schematics and even layouts into your respective files/data, but the important connection between those will get lost in the process and the helper tools (ERC/DRC won’t be happy at all).
There is an ongoing effort to make possible what you want, but for that the programmers/developers need to have overhauled EEschema first, which itself is definitely more than 12 months away.
PS: you could naturally use some copy tool to keep the schematic copied from one project folder to the other (or even in sync) but it’s not officially supported.
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