Newbie library question

Am 25.09.2011 04:45, schrieb Jeff Morrissey:

Hi All,

After I open a new Schematics page and click on the ADD command, it is my understanding that the large library should open up. What I am getting is a box labeled ADD with only a few library parts listed in it. Not the main library as I would like. Can someone please tell me how to get the main library to open up whenever I click on or type in ADD in the schematic window?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jeff M

 

Actually there is no "THE LARGE LIBRARY" as eagle provides about 300

libraries on installation. The path to the libraries directory is

entered in the eagle control panel/Options/Directories. Since this is

usually done automatically during installation, I assume you just did

not activate them, putting them IN USE.

In the command line at the top of your schematic just enter "USE *"

(without the " )and hit the "Enter" Key. After that you should see all

the libraries using the ADD command. If not, check the path as mentioned

above.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

Joern Paschedag

Good Morning Joern,

Thanks for your help with my Newbie question concerning the library. I did as instructed (USE command) and indeed it brought up the large list of libraries. In order to retrieve parts though, I next have to highlite one of the parts files, then right click and choose select. What happens next is that it automatically goes back to the schematic without the file I have chosen. If I type ADD in the sch. command line, I find the part file has been added to the screen that I thought should show up in the first place. This screen has the two smaller boxes on the right side which show symbol and package. I was thinking that all libraries should be available in this screen.

Am I missing a step, or taking too many?

Thanks again for your help.

Jeff

On 9/25/2011 9:27 AM, Jeff Morrissey wrote:

Good Morning Joern,

Thanks for your help with my Newbie question concerning the library. I did as instructed (USE command) and indeed it brought up the large list of libraries. In order to retrieve parts though, I next have to highlite one of the parts files, then right click and choose select. What happens next is that it automatically goes back to the schematic without the file I have chosen. If I type ADD in the sch. command line, I find the part file has been added to the screen that I thought should show up in the first place. This screen has the two smaller boxes on the right side which show symbol and package. I was thinking that all libraries should be available in this screen.

Am I missing a step, or taking too many?

Thanks again for your help.

 

Jeff

 

Once you have "used" all the libraries they should automatically appear

in the list when you click the add part icon from the schematic editor.

Note that in the add part selection you can define a search string (eg

"soic"  which will search through all the currently used libraries for

parts that match the search parameters.    You will often not find

exactly the part you want so its best to make your search terms pretty

general and refine from there.

jim

Thanks to Joern & Jim,

You are exactly right. My ADD library is getting larger each time I access a part in the large (USE) library. It makes sense now as to what's happening and I thank you for your help. I certainly appreciate the help. I have watched several (many) tutorials and somehow these steps you have told me about were not shown. It is very much appreciated when others will stop what they are doing and take the time to help.

Jeff

Thanks to Joern & Jim,

You are exactly right. My ADD library is getting larger each time I access a part in the large (USE) library. It makes sense now as to what's happening and I thank you for your help. I certainly appreciate the help. I have watched several (many) tutorials and somehow these steps you have told me about were not shown. It is very much appreciated when others will stop what they are doing and take the time to help.

Jeff