global part substitution

On 8/10/2016 2:43 PM, davedr wrote:

I am new to Eagle. I've recently purchased it because I may work on my own and can't afford Altium, which is what I use at work now. I would like to substitute, for example, the us version resistor schematic symbol for the european boxy resistor. Is there a way to do this in Eagle without doing a one by one substitution.

Thanks in advance.

Dave R.

 

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Hi Dave,

I hope you're doing well. Unfortunately, the best solution is to use the

REPLACE command which is a one by one sub. However, keep in mind the the

verb-noun paradigm in EAGLE makes this a less tiresome proposition.

All you have to do is click the REPLACE icon, select the boxy resistor

from the rcl library and click OK. Now just left click once on each

resistor to change it.

You'll find it's much faster then having to right click on each resistor

and selecting replace.

hth,

Jorge Garcia

Jorge Garcia wrote on Wed, 10 August 2016 19:47

On 8/10/2016 2:43 PM, davedr wrote:

I am new to Eagle. I've recently purchased it because I may work

on my own and can't afford Altium, which is what I use at work now. I

would like to substitute, for example, the us version resistor

schematic symbol for the european boxy resistor. Is there a way to do

this in Eagle without doing a one by one substitution.

Thanks in advance.

Dave R.

 

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Hi Dave,

 

I hope you're doing well. Unfortunately, the best solution is to use

the

REPLACE command which is a one by one sub. However, keep in mind the

the

verb-noun paradigm in EAGLE makes this a less tiresome proposition.

 

All you have to do is click the REPLACE icon, select the boxy resistor

 

from the rcl library and click OK. Now just left click once on each

resistor to change it.

 

You'll find it's much faster then having to right click on each

resistor

and selecting replace.

Jorge, can't you do a search and replace on the XML file using a text

editor?  If the symbol is the same and the name just changed I think this

is easiest.  Of course you can really mess up the file doing this so make

sure to make a backup copy first.

I use this when I need to change the library reference of a symbol so that

updating from library will work (if the original library no longer exists,

which still should create a warning and doesn't).

James.

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Am 10.08.2016 um 21:47 schrieb Jorge Garcia:

On 8/10/2016 2:43 PM, davedr wrote:

I am new to Eagle. I've recently purchased it because I may work on my

own and can't afford Altium, which is what I use at work now. I would

like to substitute, for example, the us version resistor schematic

symbol for the european boxy resistor. Is there a way to do this in

Eagle without doing a one by one substitution.

Thanks in advance.

Dave R.

 

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Hi Dave,

 

I hope you're doing well. Unfortunately, the best solution is to use the

REPLACE command which is a one by one sub. However, keep in mind the the

verb-noun paradigm in EAGLE makes this a less tiresome proposition.

 

All you have to do is click the REPLACE icon, select the boxy resistor

from the rcl library and click OK. Now just left click once on each

resistor to change it.

 

You'll find it's much faster then having to right click on each resistor

and selecting replace.

 

hth,

Jorge Garcia

Hi Jorge, imho one can replace only within a library, not across libraries.

That  means Dave cannot "reach" from the eu-library to the us-library.

So one could of course merge both libraries together, or use the method

James Morrison suggested using a text editor ... with care

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Joern Paschedag

CadSoft Guest wrote:

 

Hi Jorge, imho one can replace only within a library, not across libraries.

That means Dave cannot "reach" from the eu-library to the us-library.

So one could of course merge both libraries together, or use the method

James Morrison suggested using a text editor ... with care

 

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

 

Joern Paschedag

 

I'm not sure you are right there, when I start the replace command it pops up the library browser and you can choose a component from any library currently in use. I just tried this out and swapped a resistor out for a diode from a different library without issue. Obviously it has to have the same number of pins and they need naming the same but this shouldn't be an issue across the two resistor packages.

Best Regards,

Rachael

Am 15.08.2016 um 10:42 schrieb rachaelp:

CadSoft Guest wrote:

 

Hi Jorge, imho one can replace only within a library, not across libraries.

That means Dave cannot "reach" from the eu-library to the us-library.

So one could of course merge both libraries together, or use the method

James Morrison suggested using a text editor ... with care

 

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

 

Joern Paschedag

 

I'm not sure you are right there, when I start the replace command it pops up the library browser and you can choose a component from any library currently in use. I just tried this out and swapped a resistor out for a diode from a different library without issue. Obviously it has to have the same number of pins and they need naming the same but this shouldn't be an issue across the two resistor packages.

 

Best Regards,

 

Rachael

 

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Ouuups you  are right Rachael. Old man mixed up apples with pears or,

for the non farmers,

"change package" with "replace"

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Joern Paschedag