I'm feeling more like Bambi in "Bambi meets Godzilla".
I have a symbol. I gave the pins name like NOA, COMA, NCA (yes, it's a relay! A genuine metal-on-metal contact set. There are sound reasons for this, mostly dealing with forward voltage drop across MOSFETs messing up the circuit and also limiting the total current draw due to their resistance). I spent most of the night switching between various tutorials and Eagle. I have pads, and the pads have names like P$2, P$3, etc. Then I get to the Device level, and want connect something like P$4 with NOA, P$5 to COMA, and P$6 to NCA (no, I don't remember the pin mappings, and I want to go to bed...). What I expected is what is shown in all the tutorials. What I get is a dialog with an empty pin list, as shown in the attached screenshot. Just to show the the device has pin names (which I renamed from P$1, etc.), I show the symbol view. But I put the pins down, then renamed them.
I really am a newcomer to Eagle; I've been using it less than a week, and this is my first attempt to create a part. I feel that i understand enough about .brd and .sch to make progress, albeit more slowly than an expert, but there aren't any prebuilt libraries I could find for this part, so decided that it was time to stretch my understanding and build my own part.
I am using 9.1.1, which was current when I started last week; 9.1.2 is now out, but I have not yet upgraded.
The tutorials I've found are clear, but they all end up with a set of pins to be connected to a set of pads. I have no set of pins, and do not understand why. I would appreciate if someone could point out what I've done wrong and/or tell me how to fix it.
Also, the only file I found was a .lbr file; I presume it contains both the .sch and .brd components magically within itself. And when I add it, it includes the file with the #1 in its name. I am too tired to worry about that right now. [If it does not appear, it is because I got an error message about "The content type of this file" not being a permitted attachment. Typical sloppy work; a real message would have given the file name, since I had four attachments. Or, it would have highlighted the forbidden attachment.].
joe
(aka "The Supuflourous Flounder)
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