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Sparkfun footprint files for Eagle 6.2

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e14 Contributor over 14 years ago

I've found Sparkfun files for 6.0+ but when I tried to use them in Eagle 6.2 I get a message about

 

"Loading D:/Documents/SparkFun-Boards.lbr ... 

Error:

line 5, column 6: This is not an EAGLE file."   Anyone have updated files for Eagle 6.2?

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    0 e14 Contributor over 13 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

    Well that seemed to do it.  Guess I did download them some wrong way before.  Thanks alot now able to use em.

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    0 e14 Contributor over 13 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

    Am 10.09.2012 04:06, schrieb Richard Waterman:

    Hi,

     

    Thanks for giving that to try but didn't help.  I wonder what version sparkfun actually uses to allow it to work.  Maybe they stayed on 6.0.

     

     

    https://github.com/sparkfun/SparkFun-Eagle-Libraries/downloads

    Here is a link for eagle6 sparkfun libraries at github.

    Maybe you downloaded the files directly and that won't work.

    A little above the list at the very right side you can see

    " Tags  Download". Klick on download and you are given the choice to

    download as zip/tar.gz file. After decompression the files are ready to

    use image

     

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    Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

     

    Joern Paschedag

     

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    0 fritzz over 13 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

    I seem to be able to load them just fine in 6.2

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    0 e14 Contributor over 13 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

    Hi,

     

    Thanks for giving that to try but didn't help.  I wonder what version sparkfun actually uses to allow it to work.  Maybe they stayed on 6.0.

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    0 e14 Contributor over 14 years ago

    Richard Waterman wrote:

    I've found Sparkfun files for 6.0+ but when I tried to use them in

    Eagle 6.2 I get a message about

     

    "Loading D:/Documents/SparkFun-Boards.lbr ...

    Error:

    line 5, column 6: This is not an EAGLE file." Anyone have updated

    files for Eagle 6.2?

     

     

    Open up that Sparkfun library with a text editor and view the XML

    There is a line near the top that looks similar to the following

     

           
    sparkfun/SparkFun-Eagle-Libraries · GitHub

     

    It has two starnge charcters in it. One after master and the other before

    GitHub. These may be causing the issue so take them out and try again

     

     

    HTH

    Warren

     

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    0 e14 Contributor over 14 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

    I was looking to use them base on a tutuorial I was looking at related to Ardunino.  But guess I'll just have to do without since won't load in newer Eagle.  There was an Adafruit library that worked with newer Eagle and that does seem to have alot of Arduino componantes.

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    0 e14 Contributor over 14 years ago

    Am 05.07.2012 00:43, schrieb Richard Waterman:

    I've found Sparkfun files for 6.0+ but when I tried to use them in Eagle 6.2 I get a message about

     

    "Loading D:/Documents/SparkFun-Boards.lbr ...

    Error:

    line 5, column 6: This is not an EAGLE file."   Anyone have updated files for Eagle 6.2?

     

     

    There are libraries available for eagle5.x and 6.x but I don't have a

    link right now.

    Anyway watch out they contain a lot of usually unwanted layers (set

    used_layers all).

     

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    Joern Paschedag

     

     

     

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