Project view

The SoftForge view in the Explorer sidebar shows one tree per .kicad_pro of the workspace: the schematic sheets as a hierarchy, the board, the project’s symbol and footprint libraries, documentation sheets, outputs (fab/, doc/, sim/ and the folders configured in softforge.edsnx.outputs.<kind>Folder, see Fabrication outputs; the tooltip names the kinds that write there), the rules file, custom tools, checks and the agent; with a *.kicad_panel Panels (one row per panel, opening the panel editor) and with recorded releases Releases (per version: the release notes, the package and the job folders). A click opens the item in its editor (a library in the symbol or footprint editor); the context menus and the view’s title bar run Update PCB from Schematic, Update Schematic from PCB, Run ERC, Run DRC, Plot…, Export Documentation Set…, New Documentation Sheet…, New Symbol Library…, New Footprint Library…, Open Rules in Board Setup, Reveal in Explorer View and the tools. Project Settings… edits the text variables (undoable when the board is open), the project library tables (add, edit, remove, reorder, enable) and the net-class defaults. Import… (a project, the title bar) and Export… (a project, its board, schematic or design files) run the importers and exporters; see Import and export. Library tables keep their # comment lines when Project Settings writes them (each comment stays with the row, header or end of table it was written above; the comments of a removed row go with it).