Ideas for ULPs

I've been wanting to start writing ULPs for functions which are not currently available in EAGLE. So I invite the EAGLE user community to post ideas for ULPs which help solve problems or are just plain cool. I'll look at the ideas the receive the most replies, and develop a few ULPs to address them. I'll then reply once the ULPs are completed

Thanks for the Ideas.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

Cadsoft Computer

huayuliang over 15 years ago

Is there a ulp for export device name, symbol name and pakage name of every library?

even can export the images of symbol and pakage ? this maybe very difficult..
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Richard_H over 15 years ago in reply to huayuliang

Hello,

there are two old ULPs available that place packages and symbols in a board or schematic and arrange it for printing.
Take a look at: www.cadsoft.de/download.htm
==> showlbr.ulp and showlbr_brd.ulp

HTH
Richard
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WestfW over 15 years ago

I'd like to see ULPs for running the CAM processor, so that I can have one-click generation
of my common CAM files. I think in version 5.x, this should be possible by running another
copy of EAGLE in "command line" style with the "system()" function, but I'm not familiar
enough with the CLI usage of EAGLE, and the Mac/Linux/Windows differences scare me.

Also, some ULP to manage/revert to the backed-up SCH/BRD versions?
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Former Member over 15 years ago

Are the commands/ expressions/built-in functions etc. for the ULP restricted to those mentioned in the EAGLE help menu or any command from the C language could be used to write a ULP in EAGLE?

Regards,
Jaya
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Jorge_Garcia over 15 years ago in reply to Former Member

Hi Jaya,

Nice to converse with you. I actually asked Klaus about any references for the ULP language, he told me that all the info for writing ULPs is included in the help file.

Richard was nice enough, to put that information into a PDF which is much easier to use. It's up on the Cadsoft site Downloads->Documentation.

I looked through it, from what I can tell most if not all of the standard C constructs are available( if..else, for, while, switch, etc.). Is there any particular c function you were looking to use?

Jorge Garcia
Cadsoft Computer
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Former Member over 15 years ago in reply to Jorge_Garcia

Hi Jorge,

Nice to talk to you too. I'm not sure if you know I'm the new Cadsoft engineer hired at Farnell Electronics, Bangalore, India to provide EAGLE support in the APAC region. Yes, Richard did tell me about the ULP document while I was in Germany for the training. I was just trying to explore the existing ULPs and checking if the standard libraries like stdio.h and windows.h which are used in C could be used here.

Thanks much.

Jaya
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Former Member over 15 years ago in reply to Former Member

Hello Jaya,

ULPs are C-like but they are not C, hence you are "restricted" to what you can find in CadSoft's documentation.

Rene
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Jorge_Garcia over 15 years ago in reply to Former Member

Hi Jaya,

I looked into it and the standard C libraries are not available for use within EAGLE. You have to work within the confines of the EAGLE C implementation, it's a little bit of a bummer but It's not too hard to work around it.

I hope to converse with you again.

If you need any help you can count on Ed and myself here at CadsoftUsa.

Regards,
Jorge Garcia
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