Creating new symbol from schematic

  1. you have to open schematic editor as I have written. Under Windows it is the eeschema.exe file in the KiCad\bin directory.
  2. open in that program (looks a little different than schematic editor opened from KiCad main application window) the source schematic.
  3. select the part of schematic with mouse and then right-click and ‘Copy Block’ (there is Ctrl+C written there so I suppose it also works).
  4. open the destination schematic (in the same program, when I tried to open in second schematic editor instance it didn’t worked).
  5. right-click and ‘Paste’ (probably Ctrl+V also works).

I am using 5.1.6.