Eagle import silently ignores eagle blocks (hierarchical subsheets)

[Rene Poeschl]

The eagle import does not seem to be able to work with eagle schematics that include "modules" (or blocks). KiCad should at least tell the user that schematics using this feature are not supported.

Support for it would be nice in the long term.

See: https://forum.kicad.info/t/hierachical-eagle-import-fails-kicad-v-5-1-4/18631 (including a test schematic)

I tested it in kicad version:
Application: Eeschema
Version: (5.1.4)-1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.6 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) nghttp2/1.34.0
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.68.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.61.1
    Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

I didn't realize that the Eagle imported couldn't handle hierarchical sheets. We should probably fix this and merge the fix into the 5.1 branch. I'm sure there are plenty of Eagle users with hierarchical schematics.

[Rene Poeschl (poeschlr)]

At least an error message would be nice for 5.1 (should it not be easy to backport this)

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/1813