Replicate layout: If run before saving all sheets in eeschema gives criptic message. about kicad_action_plugins

[dinoghi]

Also verified on kicad stable 5.1.2 (Linux)

[MitjaNemec]

Yes the plugin has to read .sch files in order to get additional info not available from the .kicad_pcb. As there is currently no mechanism to check if the schematics was saved before running the plugin, there is not much that I can do. Maybe I could make the error message more user friendly. I'd appreciate the replicate_layout.log file to see where and how it fails. Thanks for reporting it though.

[dinoghi]

Yes, having a more descriptive error popup is a good solution (like "unable to open file xxx.sch: please check the sheet file has been saved in eeschema" or something similar that helps the user to understand that he missed the "save" step)
...and here is the log file.

replicate_layout.log

Cheers,
Dino.