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.
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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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards
Joern Paschedag
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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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards
Joern Paschedag
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
