Renaming a component error

Take a look at How to create a new schematic symbol in the Eagle editor

Not sure if that tutorial has anything that answer's my question. I tried to read it word by word and all it shows you is how to create a device from scratch. I already did that when creating my devices and it worked fine all these years, but suddenly whenever I add a component after deleting it, it keeps adding 000 before the number as I mentioned earlier. If I create a whole new schematic form my current one and delete/add a component, it works fine, but if I copy my board into and then delete/add it does weirdly as I mentioned. I don't want to do my layout again from scratch, too much of a work.

Any suggestions?

thanks

On 16/06/2015 2:17 p.m., Pavan Tiruveedhula wrote:

Not sure if that tutorial has anything that answer's my question. I

tried to read it word by word and all it shows you is how to create a

device from scratch. I already did that when creating my devices and it

worked fine all these years, but suddenly whenever I add a component

after deleting it, it keeps adding 000 before the number as I mentioned

earlier. If I create a whole new schematic form my current one and

delete/add a component, it works fine, but if I copy my board into and

then delete/add it does weirdly as I mentioned. I don't want to do my

layout again from scratch, too much of a work.

 

Any suggestions?

Is your Schematic /Board pair currently consistent?

Which version of Eagle?

What operating system?

Running ERC may give you a clue to what's going on.

Can you upload your schem/Board?

Warren

When I ran ERC on schematic, it shows 'Board and Schematic are consistent'.

I am using Eagle 6.5 on Windows 8.1

Not sure why this is happening, but I got around this problem by renaming the component to a number that's not on the board and then changing it back to the number that I want. For example C00021 -> C150 (not in my schematic) -> C21. This worked fine for my purpose.

On 15.06.2015 21:00, Pavan Tiruveedhula wrote:

I have a schematic and board that I am going through the names of

components. The problem I am having is whenever I try to delete a

component in my case a cap (ex: C21) and then replace it with a

different type cap, it changes its name to C00021 rather than C21 and

when I try to rename it to C21 it gives me error that the component

already exists, but when I try 'Show' command it doesn't show it and

when I try to Show it on board, it says 'doesn't exist'. Very

frustrating, I have few components that I want to replace with different

type and its doing for all those.

 

Any ideas or suggestions?

What version and locale are you using?

Did you try 'show @ C21" in both sch and brd?

Eagle 6.5.0 standard and when I use Show command, it just pops up a dialog with C21 in there in schematic and it does nothing when I click it and when I use the same command in Board, it gives me error that C21 is no found.

On 17.06.2015 21:41, Pavan Tiruveedhula wrote:

Eagle 6.5.0 standard and when I use Show command, it just pops up a

dialog with C21 in there in schematic and it does nothing when I click

it and when I use the same command in Board, it gives me error that C21

is no found.

Sounds like C21 is a funny cap with no footprint, but then again, it

should be visible...

Did you try to type "delete c21" from sch? Then "show c21" again? If its

gone, do ERC to make sure you have consistancy.

Actually I used C21 as an example, it does the same on any component. Yes I did delete command and then tried show command with same results.

On 18.06.2015 16:15, Pavan Tiruveedhula wrote:

Actually I used C21 as an example, it does the same on any component.

Yes I did delete command and then tried show command with same results.

I think we can conclude that your files are corrupt, and that Eagle is

not able to repair it. Im sure someone at cadsoft could fix it for you

if its important.