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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

On 11/28/2013 01:10 PM, Martijn Kuipers wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:56:42AM +0100, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> >
> > > I am particularly interested in the main developers' view about points:
> > > - Cut/copy/paste
> >
> > Never felt a need for copy/paste on a board... YMMV of course (perhaps
> > for modular I/O stages or such?)
>
> I can see it be fun to be able to Cut & Paste from one board to another.
> For instance, copy the switching power supply part as a whole.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> /Martijn

Both could be good use cases, but now when I think about it, this is not 
as easy as it seemed to be in the beginning.
As far as I know currently there is no back annotation (you cannot 
update schematics basing on a PCB file), so modules that were copied may 
introduce some disorder. They need nets to be connected to (this could 
be cloned, but I am not sure if that is the right way, especially in 
case of pasting parts from another board), value and reference (value 
could be copied too and reference could be just the next free number). 
The things may get more complicated when you reload .net/.cmp file - I 
think those parts can just disappear, as they are not in the list.
I need to reconsider the feature again, maybe there are some good 
solutions to that.

Regards,
Orson