Have a question about CadSoft EAGLE?  Ask our Expert, Richard! (Archive)

I figured there had to be some reasonable way to do it.  That is tooooo easy!

Thanks a ton, Richard!

Mike

Hi Mike,

yes of course there is....

Please arrange the EAGLE Control Panel and the Library Editor window with the target library on the Desktop so that you can see both windows. Now expand the Libraries entry of the tree view in the EAGLE Control Panel and click onto the Device you want to copy into your target lbr. Drag&Drop the entry into the Library Editor
window.

Regards,

Richard

Hi K Sz,

why re-inventing the wheel? There are ULPs that generate a BOM with attributes including. Look at:

http://www.cadsoft.de/cadsoft-downloads/

bom_with_attributes.zip

bom-ex.zip

attbom.zip

Regards,

Richard

Hi Anna,

there a ULPs that generate a script file that will be executed automatically. Look into my posting some messages above repying to KSz. There is you can see some lines of change-via-by-stack.ulp that might help. By the way: The User Lanugae is completely documented in the EAGLE help. You can also download this part of the help as PDF from http://www.cadsoft.de/downloads/documentation/

There an ulp5110-en.pdf available.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Richard

Hi Richard,

Thanks. 

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Hi Garry,

yes EAGLE 5.x works with Windows 7 64-bit.

Reagrds,

Richard

Richard,

I want to copy a device from an existing library and put the copy in a different library.  I would rather not have to go back and forth copying first the symbol, and then the package and then make the new device in the new library.  Isn't there a way to just copy a whole device to a new library?

Thanks!

Mike

Hi Richard,

Thank you for your help, it was very useful.

Here is my other task:
I have to write a ulp, that makes a list of the used parts of a schematic. So if i add a resistor to the schematic, the ulp will make a list with one resistor and the attributes of the resistor (for example: resistor 1: 100Ohm, etc.).
Thanks for your help.

Hi there,

I wish to write a simple ulp that generates a script.

I know what I want the script to say (a simple series of name commands), generated using a couple of inputs (a starting index and the desired naming prefix).

I need to run similar scripts for different starting inputs over 70 times to cover all the replicated blocks on my board, so I want to write a ulp to generate the script for me.  I know this should be straightforward, but I'm quite unfamiliar with the syntax etc.

I have the user language manual, which is helpful but a little overwhelming when first starting!  I'm just hoping someone could point me to a simple ulp that takes a couple of inputs and generates a script that I can look at as an example.  I'm getting hopelessly lost looking at some of the bigger ulps which are doing all sorts of fancy things I don't need at this point...

Any assistance appreciated - feel free to point me to previous discussion on this point if there is one that I've failed to find.

Many thanks,

Anna

EDIT: I have spent the day playing and have finally managed to write a ulp that successfully generates the required scripts. So, no need to respond to this query.

Thanks for this helpful thread though!  I would like to suggest that a tutorial on ulp-writing would be a helpful addition to the available documentation in future.

Regards,

Anna

Hi Richard,

Does 5.6 work with win7 64 bit?

Regards,

Gary Weitzman

President

GDW Enterprises

25645 La Cima

Laguna Niguel, Ca 92677

714 504 6639

fax 949 364 1502