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Electronics => PCB/EDA/CAD => Eagle => Topic started by: madires on July 06, 2012, 10:30:10 pm
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Hi!
Eagle 6.2.0 supports "external devices", e.g. devices without package you can connect to wires in the schematics (like a normal device). That's what the release notes say. Haven't found any clue how to create such an external device in the library editor. Any ideas?
Cheers
madires
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Found out how to define an external device. In the library editor I had to define a device without any package and add the attribute "_EXTERNAL_" with some random value.
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Hi,
This sounds like what I want to do, but does it mean if you find something that is defined with a footprint (in this case I'm talking switches and connectors) that in order to use them panel-mounted rather than on the PCB I need to copy & make a custom component out of each of those that's external?
Hoping there's a better way, thanks
Geoff
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I just think of it in context. If it is going to be a couple of small wires surely you can just use a header. That way you have the point to solder to...
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I just think of it in context. If it is going to be a couple of small wires surely you can just use a header. That way you have the point to solder to...
That's what I'd like - but how do you maintain a switch or panel-mounted switched TRS etc in the schematic so that's correctly documenting the circuit while keeping just the 0.1 spaced pads on the PCB?
Thanks
Geoff
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This sounds like what I want to do, but does it mean if you find something that is defined with a footprint (in this case I'm talking switches and connectors) that in order to use them panel-mounted rather than on the PCB I need to copy & make a custom component out of each of those that's external?
Unfortunately yes. It would be much more convenient if they simply had a toggle box "package / no package" for the device.
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I just think of it in context. If it is going to be a couple of small wires surely you can just use a header. That way you have the point to solder to...
That's what I'd like - but how do you maintain a switch or panel-mounted switched TRS etc in the schematic so that's correctly documenting the circuit while keeping just the 0.1 spaced pads on the PCB?
Thanks
Geoff
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