New to Eagle

On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 14:40:38 GMT, Sean Lovelady

<noreply-309869@element14.com> wrote:

New to Eagle, How do I added parts to an existing Library

 

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The way I like to do it is to create a new empty library and do all my

part designing in there.  Then when I am done, I open the existing

library, find the new library in the Eagle control panel, and then

drag and drop the new device from the new (temporary) library to the

existing library.

But if you are talking about adding parts to an existing library can

came with Eage, I would not recommend it.  Leave those libraries alone

and make new custom libraries of your own to contain new parts.  I

generally have one custom library that I use for all projects.  It has

my custom schematic frame.  Then for each project I make a custom

library for that project.

As for how to make a new part (which they call a device), that

involves making a new symbol, a new package, and finally a new device

that combines the symbols and the packages.  I rarely make these from

scratch.  It is much easier to drag an existing package and similar

device from the Eagle libraries, then edit them as needed.  When I

edit an Eagle-supplied package or symbol, I also change its name so

that it will not conflict with the Eagle package and symbol names

(unless I was able to use the Eagle package or symbol unmodified).

Robert Scott

Hopkins, MN

Am 04.02.2015 um 02:49 schrieb Robert Scott:

On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 14:40:38 GMT, Sean Lovelady

<noreply-309869@element14.com> wrote:

 

New to Eagle, How do I added parts to an existing Library

 

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The way I like to do it is to create a new empty library and do all my

part designing in there.  Then when I am done, I open the existing

library, find the new library in the Eagle control panel, and then

drag and drop the new device from the new (temporary) library to the

existing library.

 

But if you are talking about adding parts to an existing library can

came with Eage, I would not recommend it.  Leave those libraries alone

and make new custom libraries of your own to contain new parts.  I

generally have one custom library that I use for all projects.  It has

my custom schematic frame.  Then for each project I make a custom

library for that project.

 

As for how to make a new part (which they call a device), that

involves making a new symbol, a new package, and finally a new device

that combines the symbols and the packages.  I rarely make these from

scratch.  It is much easier to drag an existing package and similar

device from the Eagle libraries, then edit them as needed.  When I

edit an Eagle-supplied package or symbol, I also change its name so

that it will not conflict with the Eagle package and symbol names

(unless I was able to use the Eagle package or symbol unmodified).

 

Robert Scott

Hopkins, MN

 

IMHO the main thing NOT to add your devices into existing eagle

libraries is,

that your work will be lost when the library is updated by a new eagle

version.

So  the general rule is:

Put your own devices in your own libraries.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

Joern Paschedag