Eagle help

[spindrah]

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

 

[evandude]

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.

 

[spindrah]

thats it
thank you!!

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

 

[spindrah]

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

thanks for the help

 

[evandude]

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

 

[spindrah]

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

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

 

[spindrah]

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

 

[Russlk]

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

 

[spindrah]

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

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

 

[evandude]

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.

 

[Russlk]

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.

 

[Phasor]

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

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

 

[spindrah]

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

ahh, that did it!

thank you

 

[DigiTan]

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.

 

[spindrah]

is the smd-ipc library what you need?

 

[Joel Rainville]

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

I feel your pain. Eagle must have been designed for another OS than Windows, probably Unix, or some kind of *nix variant...

It doesn't respect any kind of convention or standard in the graphical user interface. You know you're in trouble when a Windows program doesn't react to Ctrl-Z!... The right-click also has the annoying tendency to accomplish everything but what you intended

Microsoft publishes guidelines that can be followed to offer users a consistent GUI experience across programs on the Winbdows platform. But anyone is free to follow the rules or not in the software world...

Still, once you learn it, it's probably the best layout software out there. Other software just don't have library with as much depth... And Alt-Backspace isn't too bad a key combination to undo things

 

[DigiTan]

is the smd-ipc library what you need?

Yeah, that sounds like it. I can't find one anywhere.

 

[Oznog]

I was annoyed by the fact that the component layouts and schematic layouts are separated into libraries that can't be moved around.

I might have 3 different TO-220 pkgs in a design using different components out of 3 libs which each use a slightly different TO-220 pkg.

Plus they're so bloated- I can't ever remember where a cap or MOSFET I like to use actually is.

I've halfway given up on Eagle's libs. I made my own lib and put a lot of common stuff like NMOS/PMOS in there with all the possible pkgs instead so if I want to change pkg I can do it without having to switch between libs.

Also handy because if I add a new pkg to a stock lib, it can't be merged with new versions.

Still copying is just such an inexplicable pain in the ass...

 

[spindrah]

is the smd-ipc library what you need?

Yeah, that sounds like it. I can't find one anywhere.

hi DigiTan

its in the control panel of eagle
one of the libs that come with it

 

[DigiTan]

Well, I'll double-check, don't I've never noticed it there before. This is the free Lite Edition right?