Copying Library Symbols

Hi John, welcome to the eagle world

Some of the behavior is not intuitive but here's what worked for me.

From eagle control panel, create your new library and open it.

Size the library window and control panel so they both fit to your screen.

In control panel, expand the lbr branch and find the components you want to

copy.

Simply drag the components to your new library. They will import as copies

of the originals and you can then customize as needed.

Don't forget to save your library before exiting...

Hope that helps - Oppie

<jmorley@endeavour-usa.com> wrote in message

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Hi All,

 

I'm a new Eagle user, and I'm trying to make a custom library of the parts

I will be using the most. I'd like to take some of the existing symbols

(only) from libraries supplied with Eagle, and use them to create my own

library. I will be making the package, and device definitions myself while

using the these existing symbols.

 

Is this possible? It appears (from browsing the forum) that symbols are

somehow unique, and may need a 'Group-Copy-Paste' approach rather than a

'Right-click & Save to Library' or 'Drag-n-Drop' approach, but I have been

able to make anything work yet!

 

Thanks,

 

John

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Am 25.02.2011 14:17, schrieb jmorley@endeavour-usa.com:

Hi All,

 

I'm a new Eagle user, and I'm trying to make a custom library of the parts

I will be using the most. I'd like to take some of the existing symbols

(only) from libraries supplied with Eagle, and use them to create my own

library. I will be making the package, and device definitions myself while

using the these existing symbols.

 

Is this possible? It appears (from browsing the forum) that symbols are

somehow unique, and may need a 'Group-Copy-Paste' approach rather than a

'Right-click&  Save to Library' or 'Drag-n-Drop' approach, but I have been

able to make anything work yet!

 

Thanks,

 

John

I would export a library as script, edit it with text editor and

scratching out everything except the sym definitions. Then import into

new library.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

Joern Paschedag

"Joern Paschedag" <jpaschedag@t-online.de> wrote in message

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I would export a library as script, edit it with text editor and

scratching out everything except the sym definitions. Then import into new

library.

That's probably the cleanest way to go. That method though is more for an

experienced user who better knows the system - not the relative nubie .

    just my $0.02 worth.

Hi All,

Well, I'm surely an Eagle new guy, but that method worked like a charm!

BTW, here are the steps I took to do this in case it might help someone

else:

1. Open the existing library that contains the symbol(s) you want to

extract.

2. Enter the command 'Export', and specify the file type as 'Script'.

Specify the filename and location (I used the Windows Desktop).

3. Rename the created file (will have a .scr extension) to have a '.txt'

extension for easy editing.

4. Edit the file and remove all elements with a '.pak' (package data) and

'.dev' (device data) type.

5. Save the file, and change the extension back to '.scr'.

6. Open a New library, and enter the command 'Script', and point to the

edited file to import.

Thanks,

John

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<jmorley@endeavour-usa.com> wrote in message

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Hi All,

 

Well, I'm surely an Eagle new guy, but that method worked like a charm!

I stand corrected

You can save yourself the trouble of renaming the file by installing

Notepad+. Right clicking on any file allows you to open it with Notepad+

directly. This is not Windows notepad (as I had mistakenly thought

originally) but a free open source editing tool. Many of us choose to use

this as the text editor in place of Eagle's default editor.  Search this

group for 'external text editor' for how to setup.

Notepad++ can be downloaded from http://notepad-plus-plus.org/release/5.8.7

There is a spell checker that can be added too.

On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Oppie wrote to us saying :

>"Joern Paschedag" <jpaschedag@t-online.de> wrote in message

>news:ik8csv$mg3$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

>>

>> I would export a library as script, edit it with text editor and

>>scratching out everything except the sym definitions. Then import into

>>new  library.

>That's probably the cleanest way to go. That method though is more for

>an experienced user who better knows the system - not the relative

>nubie .

Depends what sort of newbie. If he's new to Eagle (and possibly even to

CAD systems) but has experience with programming and scripting

languages, then this method may feel like second-nature. I know for

creating new parts I often find it easier to write a Python script to

generate an SCR to import.

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On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Oppie wrote to us saying :

>"Joern Paschedag" <jpaschedag@t-online.de> wrote in message

>news:ik8csv$mg3$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

>>

>> I would export a library as script, edit it with text editor and

>>scratching out everything except the sym definitions. Then import into

>>new  library.

>That's probably the cleanest way to go. That method though is more for

>an experienced user who better knows the system - not the relative

>nubie .

Depends what sort of newbie. If he's new to Eagle (and possibly even to

CAD systems) but has experience with programming and scripting

languages, then this method may feel like second-nature. I know for

creating new parts I often find it easier to write a Python script to

generate an SCR to import.

--

Rob Pearce                       http://www.bdt-home.demon.co.uk

The contents of     | All power corrupts, but we need electricity.

this message are    |

purely my opinion.  |

Don't believe a     |

word.               |

Am 26.02.2011 10:30, schrieb Robert Pearce:

On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Oppie wrote to us saying :

>> "Joern Paschedag" <jpaschedag@t-online.de> wrote in message

>> news:ik8csv$mg3$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

>>>

>>> I would export a library as script, edit it with text editor and

>>> scratching out everything except the sym definitions. Then import

>>> into new library.

>>

>> That's probably the cleanest way to go. That method though is more for

>> an experienced user who better knows the system - not the relative

>> nubie .

 

Depends what sort of newbie. If he's new to Eagle (and possibly even to

CAD systems) but has experience with programming and scripting

languages, then this method may feel like second-nature. I know for

creating new parts I often find it easier to write a Python script to

generate an SCR to import.

Actually the whole thing has little to do with eagle, except the ex- and

import of the script file. It is just editing a plain text file

and, if you have made errors, the Import will give you a warning showing

the faulty line number

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

Joern Paschedag

Hi Joern,

I'm going to agree and disagree with your analysis. Yes, editing the .scr

file is not strictly an Eagle issue, but the need to do it this way surely

is!

I come from the "high priced spread" world of Pads-PCB. I recently

purchased Eagle for my hobby use because of it's reputation, and it's

perceived (to me!) power! Surely, it's a great tool, and the price point is

hard to beat! That doesn't mean, however, that it does not have it's

deficiencies. I had a relatively straight-forward task - use existing

symbols to create new parts - and yet Eagle appeared to want to fight me

every step of the way with a non-intuitive approach that was not for the

faint-of-heart. It seems to me that this task ought to be a lot simpler

than it is!

Everyone probably wants to create their own libraries of commonly used

parts, so I don't understand why the library routines seem reluctant to

make this possible (easy?) without jumping through a number of hoops! In

Pads-PCB, all objects (Symbols, Footprints, etc.) are available from

anywhere to create new parts in custom libraries. I think this feature

would be a big improvement to Eagle!

Thanks,

John 

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Am 28.02.2011 23:28, schrieb jmorley@endeavour-usa.com:

Hi Joern,

 

I'm going to agree and disagree with your analysis. Yes, editing the .scr

file is not strictly an Eagle issue, but the need to do it this way surely

is!

 

I come from the "high priced spread" world of Pads-PCB. I recently

purchased Eagle for my hobby use because of it's reputation, and it's

perceived (to me!) power! Surely, it's a great tool, and the price point is

hard to beat! That doesn't mean, however, that it does not have it's

deficiencies. I had a relatively straight-forward task - use existing

symbols to create new parts - and yet Eagle appeared to want to fight me

every step of the way with a non-intuitive approach that was not for the

faint-of-heart. It seems to me that this task ought to be a lot simpler

than it is!

 

Everyone probably wants to create their own libraries of commonly used

parts, so I don't understand why the library routines seem reluctant to

make this possible (easy?) without jumping through a number of hoops! In

Pads-PCB, all objects (Symbols, Footprints, etc.) are available from

anywhere to create new parts in custom libraries. I think this feature

would be a big improvement to Eagle!

 

Thanks,

 

John

Straight symbol copying is not possible and usually not nessessary but

you can easily copy packages or devices in eagle.The originator of this

thread asked for an unusually solution and he got one. That's it for me.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

Joern Paschedag