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[Brian Piccioni <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I see.

So the approach to duplicating a section would be

1) Copy the design in eeschema
2) in eeSchema push to PCBNew
3) Layout a single section.
4) Copy and paste that section
5) Re-annotate the PCB section (this works now!) without pushing to 
schematic so the references correspond to the schematic
6) in eeSchema push to PCBNew associating by reference

Brian


On 2020-02-15 6:47 p.m., Jeff Young wrote:
> 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 
> > <mailto: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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