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Am 17.03.2011 14:05, schrieb Dave:

The board I'm working on drives a transistor (and other stuff)that is not

on the circuit board but I need to show it in the schematic so I know what

it is and so I have complete documentation of the circuit. I have the

outputs from the board going to through holes and I want the board to end

there. I want to add the other stuff to the schematic but not have it show

up on the board.

  How do I do this? I presume there is another schematic layer to put this

stuff on so it doesn't show on the board?

From scratch, EAGLE cannot do this. Using one of my ULPs, you can place

whatever 'real' parts you want on the sheet (including their board

counterparts) and afterwards convert these things into pure graphics on

the sheet (which deletes their board counterparts again). See my post

'Rein graphische Symbole im Schaltplan zeichnen' from 2010-10-22 in the

newsgroup 'eagle.support.ger'. Depending on your EAGLE installation, the

ULP dialog should display texts in German or English. Hopefully it works

for you.

Andreas Weidner

Am 17.03.2011 14:05, schrieb Dave:

The board I'm working on drives a transistor (and other stuff)that is not

on the circuit board but I need to show it in the schematic so I know what

it is and so I have complete documentation of the circuit. I have the

outputs from the board going to through holes and I want the board to end

there. I want to add the other stuff to the schematic but not have it show

up on the board.

  How do I do this? I presume there is another schematic layer to put this

stuff on so it doesn't show on the board?

From scratch, EAGLE cannot do this. Using one of my ULPs, you can place

whatever 'real' parts you want on the sheet (including their board

counterparts) and afterwards convert these things into pure graphics on

the sheet (which deletes their board counterparts again). See my post

'Rein graphische Symbole im Schaltplan zeichnen' from 2010-10-22 in the

newsgroup 'eagle.support.ger'. Depending on your EAGLE installation, the

ULP dialog should display texts in German or English. Hopefully it works

for you.

Andreas Weidner

Andreas:

I'd still be interested in the ULP that converts schematic entities to

"graphics". If you can give me the name of it I'd appreciate it. I searched

the ULP library and could not locate it.

Sage

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I managed to find the message thread but unfortunatly I can't read German

so I can't pick out the ULP name. As much as I'd like to read the dialog

about it, perhaps you can just give me the name of the ULP and I'll search

for it in the ULP library.

Did I miss something here?

BTW, thanks for creating it. I'm surprised Eagle can't do this by putting

the parts on a special layer or something. This makes it difficult to

properly document a circuit which has parts off the board.

Perhaps something to add in future releases.

Sage

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