re: Bug? Library parts silently auto connecting (dated 6-20)

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Brett Holden wrote to us saying :

>Does anybody have a script or ULP handy to search the various libraries and

>change any pins with direction Pwr, to some other direction? (Of course,

>SUPPLY libraries must be hidden by user, or somehow skipped!)

Assuming you want to change ALL the power pins in a given library (so

you won't do this with the supply.lbr for example) then:

1) Export the library as a script (from the library editor File menu)

2) Run "sed -i s/Pwr/Pas/g" or similar on that script

3) Create a new library and import that modified script

4) Save the resulting library in your "custom" directory

You may need to tweak that sed command a fraction, but that's the

essence of it.

What do you mean, you don't know what SED is? Honestly, what sort of

garbage OS are you using? Oh, I see, Windoze. Well.... there is the

GnuWin package to repair that problem.

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On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Brett Holden wrote to us saying :

>Does anybody have a script or ULP handy to search the various libraries and

>change any pins with direction Pwr, to some other direction? (Of course,

>SUPPLY libraries must be hidden by user, or somehow skipped!)

Assuming you want to change ALL the power pins in a given library (so

you won't do this with the supply.lbr for example) then:

1) Export the library as a script (from the library editor File menu)

2) Run "sed -i s/Pwr/Pas/g" or similar on that script

3) Create a new library and import that modified script

4) Save the resulting library in your "custom" directory

You may need to tweak that sed command a fraction, but that's the

essence of it.

What do you mean, you don't know what SED is? Honestly, what sort of

garbage OS are you using? Oh, I see, Windoze. Well.... there is the

GnuWin package to repair that problem.

--

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.               |

Robert Pearce wrote on Fri, 22 June 2012 18:57

What do you mean, you don't know what SED is? Honestly, what sort of

garbage OS are you using? Oh, I see, Windoze. Well.... there is the

GnuWin package to repair that problem.

The garbage I see here is expecting a user of one operating system to know

commands of another, a religious diatribe masquerading as a helpful answer,

and your proposed method of changing power pins.

Your method basically creates a whole new library, which then no longer has

association to the various projects that uses it.  A better way would be to

write a ULP to scan a library for power pins, write the Eagle commands to

change them to whatever you like, then run those commands on exit from the

ULP.  This has the advantage of editing the library in place.

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