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[Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Attila,

There is a right-click context menu that should let you cut/copy/paste
symbols between libraries, including project specific ones. I think the
way of renaming symbols has not changed, i.e. you simply modify the
Value field.

Cheers,
Orson

On 07/10/2018 02:56 PM, Attila Kinali wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying out rc3 the last couple of days and stumbled over
> one (minor) detail. Previously, when I wanted to create a new schematic
> symbol, I used to choose one that is suitably close to what I need
> (often there was already a symbol for the same part in a different package
> or a similar part where only a few pins need to be changed),
> would edit it and in the end store it in the project specific library.
> 
> Now with Kicad 5, that doesn't work anymore. Even though, I can dublicate
> symbols, they are already in a specific library, i.e. I cannot move them
> to the project library. I also cannot change the symbol name (at least
> I couldn't find a menu point to do that).
> 
> The only way, to dublicate a symbol that I could figure out is to export the
> symbol, edit the file to change the name and aliases, then import
> it again. This is kind of cumbersome. Is there an easier way?
> 
> Additionally, I would suggest, when importing a symbol to show a 
> pop-up window to select the library to which the symbol should be
> imported to (with the current library being selected as default).
> This would make the selection of the library more obvious for
> mere mortals like me.
> 
> 				Attila Kinali
>