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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To view any images and attachments in this post, visit:

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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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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.

 

--

To view any images and attachments in this post, visit:

https://www.element14.com/community/message/203499

 

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.

--

James Morrison  ~~~  Stratford Digital

Order your EAGLE license from Stratford Digital at

http://www.eaglelicenses.com

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