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Storing custom made lbr files

StefanTh

Hi

 

I have both EAGLE-6.2.0 and EAGLE-6.3.0 installed on my Windows 7 platform.

Over the time I have made a number of .lbr files with both EAGLE versions.

Nowdays I only use EAGLE-6.3.0.

I create designs with components form libraries I have created with both versions of EAGLE.

The parameter "Libraries" in the "Directory" menu is set to "$EAGLEDIR\lbr"

 

Do a newer EAGLE version search older installed EGALE versions /lbr directory for .lbr files ?

Do EAGLE "move around" custom made .lbr files when it is installed ?

 

If a do a search for one of my files, hartman.lbr, I can not find it, neither in C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0 or in C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.3.0 but if I do "Open library" in EAGLE-6.3.0 and move to C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0\lbr EAGLE it will find the file and I can open it ??

 

 

 

Regards Stefan

  • in reply to Former Member

    OK, so along the lines of what Richard says (and others have mentioned),

    you user modified/created libs should be somewhere else the user has access

    to.  Does anyone have a preferred data structure ?  I notice in W7, when

    Eagle 6.3 is installed, it creates a default location for projects under

    the users path ( C:\Users\mikey\Documents\eagle\ ).  Two questions come up

    in my mind since I am just getting things setup on my machine - is it best

    to create a "libs" folder under the C:\Users\mikey\Documents\eagle\ path (

    C:\Users\mikey\Documents\eagle\my-libs for example)?  How about 3rd party

    libraries like the sparkfun or adafruit libs - put them in the same

    "my-libs" folder or put them in a different folder (but still under the

    users path)?  What has worked best for folks ?  I realize that in the past

    many people just put them in the same library as the Eagle installed libs,

    however, as we have seen, that is not a good plan (and Windows is working

    to help us figure a better plan) for a number of reasons. It would be nice

    to have a consensus on where to put extra libs.

     

    When you add a folder to the search path for libs in eagle, does it just

    search that folder or does it search sub-folders within that specified

    folder ?

     

    mikey

     

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