Renaming a component error

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?

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0 clem57 over 10 years ago

Take a look at How to create a new schematic symbol in the Eagle editor
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0 pavanbabut over 10 years ago in reply to clem57

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?

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0 autodeskguest over 10 years ago in reply to pavanbabut

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?

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0 pavanbabut over 10 years ago in reply to autodeskguest

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

I am using Eagle 6.5 on Windows 8.1
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0 pavanbabut over 10 years ago in reply to autodeskguest

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

I am using Eagle 6.5 on Windows 8.1
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0 pavanbabut over 10 years ago in reply to pavanbabut

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.
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