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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> 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
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