Is there anyway to exclude parts from the PCB

Derek Tombrello wrote on Mon, 30 March 2015 19:36

Still not seeing any attachment to download....

You can get to the attachment at the Stratford Digital EAGLE Central site.

All the cool EAGLE kids hang out there instead of at Element14:

http://www.eaglecentral.ca/forums/

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Oh.. well, see... there's the problem! I was never allowed to play with the cool kids! lol... Thank you. I have that downloaded and will try that out in a bit.

Doug Wellington wrote:

You can get to the attachment at the Stratford Digital EAGLE Central site.

All the cool EAGLE kids hang out there instead of at Element14:

 

http://www.eaglecentral.ca/forums/

or they use a newsreader and access the eagle newsgroups directly 8-)

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GOT IT!  After looking at the sample library, I figured out what I was doing wrong... Instead of adding _EXTERNAL_ as the attribute, I was adding EXTERNAL - without the underscores. Makes all the difference in the world!  Thanks for all of your help guys

Lorenz wrote on Tue, 31 March 2015 01:05

or they use a newsreader and access the eagle newsgroups directly 8)

Some day, maybe I'll be cool enough to graduate to that level, up there

with you and Jorge...  :d

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Hello Jorge. I wonder if you could point me to some documentation that helps me to remove the package as explained. I have made a copy of the component in my own library but return an error when I try to remove its package. ????

I am a complete novice but Im into it.....

Perhaps I'm missing something, but if you have a panel mounted volume

control, you still need pads on the PCB to solder the wires that are

soldered to the volume control.

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Mark Winters wrote:

Hello Jorge. I wonder if you could point me to some documentation that

helps me to remove the package as explained. I have made a copy of the

component in my own library but return an error when I try to remove

its package. ????

 

 

I am a complete novice but Im into it.....

posting a totally unrelated question into a old tread from april 2015

won't do you any good.

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On 7/22/2016 4:47 AM, Mark Winters wrote:

Hello Jorge. I wonder if you could point me to some documentation that helps me to remove the package as explained. I have made a copy of the component in my own library but return an error when I try to remove its package. ????

 

 

I am a complete novice but Im into it.....

 

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Hi Mark,

I hope you're doing well. As Lorenz has pointed out, it's best to start

a new thread when you have a new question. However, I know Element14

doesn't make that easy for new users. In the future it might be easier

for you to use the forum mirror here:

http://eaglecentral.ca/

Now on to your problem. EAGLE will not let you delete a package if it is

associated with a device. So the first thing you have to do it open the

device that uses that package. Remove the package from the device by

first clicking on the connect button at the bottom right of the device

editor. Undo all of the connections. Then you'll be able to delete the

package from the device and ultimately from the library if you so wish.

hth,

Jorge Garcia