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Re: Cloning Projects

 

"Divide and conquer" pays lots of dividends. Is there no way to modify your design so that ONE board can serve all of those clients, with just a few configuration links to set differently? I'd certainly look hard for an answer along those lines.

When I spoke of "divide", I meant divide the system up, put the "seams" in places that allow some modules to be shared by systems which, overall, have different functions/ behaviors.

Tom

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On Sunday, 15 December 2019, 23:59:17 GMT, fritz <fsonnichsen@...> wrote:


I will look at git. I thought it was a version control facility. I am not interested in versions. I just need to clone a project so I can change certain features--I often have 2 or 3 almost identical boards that but using different processors depending on the research group that I am working with for example--or maybe each has a different connector depending the equipment to be interfaced.??? Each of these are named by the processor that they use and they are in their own folders--often on different servers planted with the research group. Not sure if git is meant for this--with other CADs "save as" does this--very simply.

Thanks
Fritz

On 12/15/2019 5:47 AM, grauseba via Groups.Io wrote:
I can only second the combination of KiCAD and git. Especially handy with the WireIt 3rd party plug-ins and submodules!?

Lev <leventelist@...> schrieb am So., 15. Dez. 2019, 10:29:

I use git and branches.

On Sun, Dec 15, 2019, 08:52 ng10066504jan via Groups.Io <ng10066504jan=[email protected]> wrote:
Fritz said "I want to make a duplicate of a complete project."

My "answer" has worked fine for me, for many years, using Windows.

I am blessed with the initials "TKB". I say "blessed" because since 1968, those letters do not seem to have been used for other things.

Thus I can create a folder called KiCadTKB, and know that it is "MyKiCad"... and actually MY stuff, not a folder created by the system.

Within that, I create a "meta folder" for every project. (And every project has a short-form name, e.g. "PCB274". The Meta-folder name will usually have some additional hints as to what the project is for, e.g. "PCB274-quad optocoupler for level shifting" because PCB274 was a breakout to provide 4 channels of opto isolation to convert some 12v digital signals to Arduino-friendly levels.

Within that, a folder called PCB274. That will be my "latest, greatest" version of the board.

From time to time, I go into the ordinary comes-with-Windows file manager, "File Explorer". (I can do all of the following mid-session, without shutting down KiCad. I need to have saved (from within KiCad) any open files.) I right-click on the PCB274 file. Select "Copy". Right-click on a blank part of "PCB274-quad optocoupler for level shifting"' window. Select "Paste". That gives me my duplicate of my project, named "PCB274-Copy" for the moment. I would change the name to something like "PCB274BU19b22-1405", if the backup were made in 2019, November (a/b/c for Oct/Nov/Dec, so month is always a single character), 5th day, at 2:05pm.

If the backup stores the project in the state it was in when I posted it online, or set it to OSHPark.com who make my PCBs, then that would be indicated in the name after the datestamp.

It Just Works. (And the same approach works in many contexts. A few... Arduino... are fussy about the name of the lowest level "container" folder, but renaming it back to what it was is simple enough, if you need to revert to a backup. Or you can add an extra layer of folders, to have "Ardu 384BU19b22-1405" hold just a folder "Ardu384", with the project in THAT.)
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