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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

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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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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Sorry I didn't see it in the original message. I have it now and I'll give

it a try.

Thanks

Sage

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Am 18.03.2011 07:50, schrieb Dave:

  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.

That's because it is NOT in the ULP library, but only in the ZIP file

attached to my former post. Please find a copy attached to this e-mail.

Usage:

  1. Unzip BOTH files into your ULP folder.

  2. Open the project of your choice.

  3. In the schematics (with board open and f/b-annotation intact), add

     all parts, nets, etc. that you need as usual and just ignore the

     stuff that appears on board.

  4. Create a group of everything that you wish to convert to

     pure graphics (without any mechanical or electrical function).

  5. Type 'run explode', select some options and afterwards 'OK'.

  6. All previously grouped things are converted to lines, circles,

     text etc., and their board counterparts are deleted.

I hope this works properly with you. Of course, the other posts telling

you to 'create a library symbol without package' also work, but they

need a separately drawn library part for everything that you decide to

connect via wires, while my ULP works with just about EVERY library part

that has already been created (hopefully).

Andreas Weidner