On Mar 7, 2018, at 11:46 AM, Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You should take a look at Mitja Nemec's action plugin here: 
> https://github.com/MitjaNemec/Kicad_action_plugins
> 
> I think the replicate layout covers a lot of the functionality you are 
> looking for.

Wow, yeah, I will try that! 

> -S
> 
> 2018-03-07 10:25 GMT-08:00 Andrey Kuznetsov <kandre...@gmail.com>:
> Not sure how you would turn this into an effortless feature, but a few months 
> ago I’ve designed just that, replicated channels using the same subsheet, on 
> layout I did it once, then copy pasted and manually renamed each component 
> based on each channel number component.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 8:42 AM Andy Peters <de...@latke.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Mar 5, 2018, at 10:57 AM, Jon Evans <j...@craftyjon.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Since my day job involves a lot of engineering planning/timelines/etc, I've 
> > had this rolling around in my head...
> > I started brainstorming some proposed changes to the roadmaps.
> >
> > I am using Google drive because that's what is easiest for me to play with; 
> > I'm happy to send patches against the official roadmaps if get some buy-in 
> > for this.
> >
> > Feel free to comment (either directly on the doc or by email) with thoughts 
> > on this.
> >
> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mpxqvxLv497cyfk8KTQijhySSpFxF7ooTtcT_HU86kw/edit#
> >
> > Basically what I am proposing is to put most of the energy into Eeschema 
> > for 6.0, with changes to other parts of the software basically being 
> > "whatever people have time left over for".  Everything else has been bumped 
> > to 7.0
> 
> I’ll add one more to the list, clearly it’s a v7 wish … layout “rooms,” like 
> the Altium feature. Consider a multi-channel design where you have to 
> replicate a layout several times. It would be nice to define the channel in, 
> say, a hierarchical subsheet, and the layout knows that it should replicate 
> the work you do for one channel across the others.
> 
> I realize that this is a completely non-trivial thing to implement, and 
> further I recall some discussion about this but nobody had any real good 
> ideas about how to do it.
> 
> -a
> 


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