Changing horizontal package to vertical (TO220, TIP120)

[Martin72]

Found nothing about it, any hints are welcome , because I´ve tried other programs like kicad or target - Eagle fits to me best...

[Quarlo Klobrigney]

Try giving them a call tomorrow and see if you can purchase a license for version 7.
As far as I remember they have support in Germany if that's where you're at. I will never upgrade to anything higher. I have had Eagle since v3.xx, and everything after v7 is crap. And when Kicad gets its act together, I will perhaps migrate. Not now though.

[Martin72]

So finally I could managed it...

Upgrading to version 9.6. , it was piece of a cake.
Just jump in the library, select the TIP120, click to "add package", select TO220V, name the connections - Done....
I swear, this wasn´t implemented in version 9.2., as I couldn´t find it.
Thx at all.
What Eagle 7 license concerns, I´ll contact them in the next days.

Martin

[Quarlo Klobrigney]

Well good!
I just got electrical power back. This is the first I've heard of the repair being an upgrade.

[westfw]

I swear, this wasn´t implemented in version 9.2

It's not so much an EAGLE version thing as a library thing.The "old" EAGLE Libraries commonly had separate "components" for different mounting options of MANY parts, where it always seemed more natural to me to have multiple packages for the same component.  I don't know why.  For TO220 parts, it ALMOST makes sense, because there is that heatsink tab that you may want to do something with, when the part is mounted horizontally.  Other parts, not so much :-(
Some of those libraries were very old (they were that way when I started using EAGLE 3.55 or so.)

The cynic in me says maybe CadSoft is updating their libraries so that they won't work with older versions of EAGLE any more.  :-(

[Martin72]

What Eagle 7 license concerns, I´ll contact them in the next days.

No need to do this now.
Got a one year for free license for fusion 360, my eagle 9.6.2 changed from free to premium version.