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Le 14/12/2012 10:16, Jacobo Aragunde Pérez a écrit :
> Hi again :)
>
> El 12/12/12 12:25, Jacobo Aragunde Pérez escribió:
> > I have noticed there is a feature in Pcbnew, "Append board", to add all
> > the components from a .brd file into the currently opened document. This
> > feature doesn't exist in Eeschema but I thought it would be useful there
> > too.
> >
> > The attached patch adds this feature linked to a new entry in the "File"
> > menu.
> I've just realized that in some cases this is not working correctly. In
> particular, if Eeschema was not able to load all the libraries (it shows
> a window on startup saying "The following libraries could not be
> found"), then imported items will not be drawn correctly (they appear as
> a box with a question mark).
>
> In order to fix the patch I'd like to ask about the relation between
> schema files and components. When you use a component in a sheet, is the
> component information saved to the .sch file? If so, I guess that
> loading this information would be enough to fix the problem.
Well,
What *exactly* do you mean by "Append schematic" to an other schematic.

Append a schematic to an other schematic has nothing to do with append a 
board to an other board.
A board is described by only one file, a schematic by many files.

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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS