How to export eagle lib to Diptrace

[shebu18]

I put some pictures up to show how to convert the eagle library's in to diptrace library's. There is still one catch. You will get only one file, a .eli file. A normal DipTrace library has 2 files, a .eli and a .lib file. The eli contains the schematic and the lib the pattern of the part. If there are custom parts you will have to export the pattern from the eli file, save it in an lib file and reattach the modified pattern to the part.

[firewalker]

I did exactly the same without success. It may be a problem under GNU/Linux. I will try to find a Win box (or setup a VM) and try it again.

Alexander.

[shebu18]

What is your eagle exact version? Mine is 5.91.1. I would recommend you try this in a vm-machine. Share a folder with virtualbox and there you can put the converted lib.

[shebu18]

Did you manage to export more lib's?

[firewalker]

I was away for some days. I was planing to setup a virtual machine tomorrow.

Alexander.

[firewalker]

Ok I found the problem.

-Eagle for GNU/Linux produces script files with "UNIX" end of line.
-Eagle for Win32 produces script files with CRLF line terminators.
-DIPtrace reads only files with CRLF line terminators.

Converting any script file produced under GNU/Linux to CRLF line terminated allows DIPtrace to load it successfully.

Alexander.

[efron]

Hi all,

Did someone try to import the 'rlc' or 'resistor' libraries from eagle?

I don't know why but it is not working for me, although no problem with other libraries like connectors etc.

[mukymuk]

Be careful, not all the parts retain the original dimensions.  Found this out the hard way once I got some PCB's back with holes that were too small.

[shebu18]

To smal is kind of ok, to big is the problem.


This fact is good to know.

[nasrmiad]

Ok I found the problem.

-Eagle for GNU/Linux produces script files with "UNIX" end of line.
-Eagle for Win32 produces script files with CRLF line terminators.
-DIPtrace reads only files with CRLF line terminators.

Converting any script file produced under GNU/Linux to CRLF line terminated allows DIPtrace to load it successfully.

Alexander.

I wrote a small perl script that will convert the unix script file into the script file accepted by diptrace. and it worked for me.
Since I couldn't attach a .pl file here is the code:

open (MYFILE , '>test.scr');

while(<>)
{
    chop($_);
    print MYFILE "$_\r\n";
}

close(MYFILE);