Pasting creates new timestamps. So copy/paste works fine, there’s just no way to do a unified copy/paste between eeschema *and* pcbnew.
The timestamps are moving to UUIDs as we speak. The links are reset/updated when you do an Update PCB from Schematic and chose the “re-associate by reference” option. (The timestamps/UUIDs encode said “association”.) Cheers, Jeff. > On 15 Feb 2020, at 23:40, Brian Piccioni <br...@documenteddesigns.com> wrote: > > I guess I'd wonder then why provide Copy and Paste/Duplicate if the result is > not usable? > > It seems like a sort of honey pot. > > On 2020-02-15 6:34 p.m., Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 1:20 AM Brian Piccioni <br...@documenteddesigns.com >> <mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote: >> I think optionally removing the path might be a good idea - or, simply >> removing it from duplicated/pasted footprints. Of course I am probably >> missing something. >> >> Brian >> >> You can't backannotate something which doesn't have the "path". But those >> footprints can of course be re-annotated. >> >> I don't think it's possible to cleanly copypaste groups of footprints to >> create "duplicated design elements" as you say. Either they point to one >> group of symbols while they should point to hierarchical sheet instances >> (each of which have different path), or they don't have corresponding >> symbols at all. >> >> If you have two footprints with identical "paths" you can reannotate from >> eeshcema (with a warning IIRC) and both footprints will have the same >> refdes. But it doesn't make sense to have two footprints with different >> refdes to point to one symbol because the symbol has only one refdes. >> >> Having identical paths in more than one footprints is problematic anyways. I >> have used it but I don't recommend it. >> >> Eeli Kaikkonen > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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