Eeschema "Append Schematic Sheet Contents" wipes out reference existing reference designators

[Ron Burkey]

When you use eeschema's Append Schematic Sheet Contents function, it wipes out all reference designators in the imported sheet to U?, R?, etc. I can see that that may be what a lot of people would want, most of the time, but it doesn't happen to be what I need.

It would be better, I think, if this function warned you that the reference designators would be reset, and offered the option of leaving them intact instead.

A workaround for this is, of course, to cut-and-paste directly into the .sch file in a text editor, but that's obviously not a very clean solution.

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

@Ron-

You are trying to add the contents of an existing sheet to your current sheet but keep the annotation of the existing sheet?

Can you post your version information as well?

[Ron Burkey (rburkey)]

On 09/05/2018 11:12 AM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> @Ron-
>
> You are trying to add the contents of an existing sheet to your current
> sheet but keep the annotation of the existing sheet?
>
> Can you post your version information as well?
>
> ** Changed in: kicad
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
Yes, that's exactly what I would like to be able to do, if I understand
correctly what is meant by "annotation". If I'm appending from an
existing sheet that contains, say, U237, I want it to continue to be U237.

Application: kicad

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[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

@Wayne, weren't you recently doing something here? Did it fix this issue?

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

It's fixed in the development branch and will be released with 5.1.