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Newbie struggling with making edge connector

oldtech1000

Hi,

I am having trouble trying to make an edge connector in eagle.

I wish to make a PCB that plugs into a 20 pin edge connector, to make an extender board.

The board consists of only 20 tracks with a spacing of 0.1 inches. No components, just the tracks.

Have not been able to find anything in libraries,tried to modify other connectors but all appear to want me

to connect to other components (other than the tracks).

I am sure this is very easy for experience Eagle users but not obvious to a very New Newbie like me.

Thanks for your help

Regards

George

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  • One of the comments above struck me funny - did you use the "wire" in the

    schematic or were you referring to the board layout?  When doing the

    schematic, you need to use a "net" to draw the connections and not "wire"

    (why you don't use a wire to wire something is beyond me, but that is the

    way it is).

     

    mikey

     

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  • in reply to autodeskguest

    On 23/01/16 02:26, Mike Fields wrote:

    (why you don't use a wire to wire something is beyond me, but that is the

    way it is).

    Because in the schematic you are not "wiring up", you are defining the

    nets that you will later "wire up" on the board. The lines on the

    schematic don't represent wires but connections - which could be

    realised in a variety of ways that don't necessarily look like the

    schematic.

     

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  • in reply to autodeskguest

    On 23/01/16 02:26, Mike Fields wrote:

    (why you don't use a wire to wire something is beyond me, but that is the

    way it is).

    Because in the schematic you are not "wiring up", you are defining the

    nets that you will later "wire up" on the board. The lines on the

    schematic don't represent wires but connections - which could be

    realised in a variety of ways that don't necessarily look like the

    schematic.

     

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  • in reply to autodeskguest

    Rob Pearce wrote on Sat, 23 January 2016 01:31

    On 23/01/16 02:26, Mike Fields wrote:

    (why you don't use a wire to wire something is beyond me, but that

    is the

    way it is).

    Because in the schematic you are not "wiring up", you are defining the

    nets that you will later "wire up" on the board. The lines on the

    schematic don't represent wires but connections - which could be

    realised in a variety of ways that don't necessarily look like the

    schematic.

     

     

    While that is true, it is not intuitively obvious from the number of

    beginners that try to create schematics using the "wire" function

    (especially for those of us old enough to have put in lots of time wire

    wrapping boards etc.)  What they really need is one of those warnings that

    pops up (that you can turn off) when someone starts to draw a schematic

    with the "wire" command.  Just a simple popup that says "use the net

    command when connecting components in a schematic" with the option to check

    "don't show this again".

     

    mikey

     

     

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