Dear,
I'd like to modify symbol(s) and footprint(s) that are part of design imported from Eagle.
Issue is that I can't find a way how to convert component placed in schematic to the library item, neither single item or group of items.
Description from Create a library from an imported PCB design doesn't work in CS 1.5 - in the symbol editor, I can't paste content of clipboard copied from schematic.
Any help is welcome!
Try this.
Start with a new schematic library file so you don't corrupt an existing library.
In the schematic, set the selection filter to components (Home tab > Selection Filter > Components
Next select all from the Select icon or Ctrl+A.
Right mouse click and copy the selected parts to the clipboard.
In the new and blank schematic library, mouse right click in the SCH Library pane.
All the parts should be copied there. You will get duplicates that you need to weed out. Symbols will be oriented in the manner they were on the schematic. So you should pick the ones you want and delete other duplicates. Then you may need to edit the symbol(s) and primitives and rotate as needed. Also, the designators will have fixed values and need to be changed to wildcard numbering.
When in the PCB view you can do something similar to what I wrote about above in the schematic view but there is a hidden command to do it.
Go to the search window and type in:
design make
If you run this command, it will generate a library from the footprints in the PCB doc. You may need to clean it up a bit but it seems to handle duplicates correctly.
