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[Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

-S

2018-03-07 10:25 GMT-08:00 Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>:

> 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 <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> > On Mar 5, 2018, at 10:57 AM, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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/1mpxqvxLv497cyfk8KTQijhySSpFxF
>> 7ooTtcT_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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