Support design blocks for footprints

[Blair Calderara]

Feature request:

Footprint made of footprints.
Allow multiple footprints to be wired together in a fixed arrangement that can be referenced and placed as a single part.
This would preserve information for BOM/PnP. Essentially a schematic symbol that acts like a hierarchical sheet with a small routed circuit as the footprint.

My usecase would be to create arrangements of parts to be used as logic gates, then be able to place these "logic gates" as symbols in a schematic. Once the schematic is complete, the components would already be grouped and wired as logic gates when I'm ready to route the PCB.

[Rene Poeschl (poeschlr)]

I read this as requesting something similar to eagles blocks (schematic and layout of a sub-block that live in a separate library and can be inserted like a symbol/footprint)

At least part of it is requested in
 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1797683 (request for design block library. Iteration 0 only schematic)
 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1521062 (request for design blocks inside a project - link between hierarchical schematic and hierarchical pcb)

Another related request is https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1828031 (schematic and layout linked copy paste)

[Ian McInerney (imcinerney)]

Yea, I guess it does (on first read it seemed like the repeating subcircuits was the most similar), but I guess it is an extension to lp:1797683 for PCB support. I'll clean up the relations, since there is a duplicate over there that would actually go with this one then.

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2508