how do i route from a smt chip to a via?

I can route from the chip to a header,
but if I need to jump to the bottom layer to go under another trace it won't let me

I'm trying to learn eagle, but its soooo a$% backwards, every time I sit down and try it I get frustrated and quit

thanks for the help

 

route the trace to where you want the via, then change the layer in the drop-down box in the upper left, and continue routing. it will have switched layers and inserted a via.

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thats it
thank you!!

i'm sure i'll be back soon, with another question

 

how do i select a group of things
like the chip,headers and traces then move them all?

thanks for the help

 

use the selection box tool (dotted line rectangle) to select everything, and then right click to move them.

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ok i got it
thanks

the thing i didn't get, is that you have to hit the move button before you right click to move them

lol
if i do things backwards it works

thanks for the help

 

well now i've gone and lost the library!

when i try to ADD PART its empty, how can i get this back?

thanks for the help

 

At the top, click on library, then in the drop down box click on use. Next select the library to make it available.

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hi Russlk
is there a way to make all of them available, without doing that for them 1 at a time?


thanks for the help

 

not that I know of.

However, there are an awful lot of libraries in there that you really don't need for normal stuff so it's probably worth your while to manually choose the ones you want.

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There is a way, I don't know how to do it. My program always comes up with all the libraries and de-selecting them is a pain also.

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If you right-click where it says "Libraries", there is an option to "use all". Select this option.

 

ahh, that did it!

thank you

 

I have a question about Eagle's chip libraries. I've already found the generic ic-packages library and I'm looking for one that has the SMT equivalents--starting with SOIC8. So far I've been using the 555 package but that messes up my schematics. I don't see a library like this on the CadSoft site.

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is the smd-ipc library what you need?