Hello all!
Last night I was doing some design that used a PCB antenna. I had
this antenna design made in zones, It was very frustrating to try to
copy this between an old design and a new one since I had to use a
texteditor ( very glad that I could though ).
After this I figured that this should be able to be copy-pasted
between pcbs.
So I have now implemented a subclass of the PCB_IO, that can format
an entire board or a selection to the clipboard in textformat, and
then created a subclass to the PCB_PARSER that parses from the
clipboard and reuses the "append board" functionality to add them
back. It also does remove the "path" properties of modules. This
allows me to copy-paste things between different PCBs in kicad. The
shortcut keys are ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+v so that people dont
use this by mistake :)
I think that this might be useful for reusing designs in some manner,
and if this is in Kicad, my next step would be to start looking into
some tool to link the pasted modules to symbols in the schematic.
Give me some insight on what you think about this please :)
video: https://youtu.be/4SuUzma0Ua4
(only tested in linux)
- Kristoffer
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