Eagle: How to disconnect relay contacts to move them individually.

[Martin72]

Hi,

I would like to be able to move the individual contacts of a relay anywhere on the plan.
With the model I have, only all the contacts together can be moved. How can I change that?
Thanks,

Martin

[Doctorandus_P]

I was surprised to see a post in the "Eagle" section of this forum, and it looks like this is the 3rd post in this section for the first 9 1/2 months of 2024. autodesk has been trying hard to kill eagle, and most of it's users have noticed this by now and moved to other software.

I guess that eagle also has a way to make multi-unit symbols. things like the TL084 opamp usually are separate opamps, and often the power pins as a 5th unit. You can tear such a symbol apart in  your symbol editor to see what makes it's internals tick.

I'm a happy KiCad user myself, and find it hard to commend on eagle. Over 10 years ago I was evaluating options for a new PCB design program and I disliked eagle's user interface a lot, so after a day and a bit of review I discarded it again.

This seems like a fairly beginners question. And out of curiosity, why are you starting with eagle in 2024?

[Martin72]

Hi,
I have been working with it for about 16 years.
So far, I have not had to touch a finished component and I tend to be the kind of user who does not look at all the functions unless they are needed.
I have tried to get to know KiCad before, but I can't manage it, so I am (still) “tied” to Eagle.

[jpanhalt]

I have used Eagle since 3.x and stopped updates with Autodesk.  I still use v. 7.x.  As stated, I suspect there is a way to make symbols with movable parts.  I have never done that, except for supply pins, e.g., for logic devices.  (If you can do it for that, why not for everything?) 

As a ready alternative, just draw short segments of a net to the pins you want and label them the same as whatever to which they attach.  I do that routinely (e.g., for wires to an LCD), and it prevents clutter on the schematic.  It does not affect readability IMHO unless taken to an extreme.

[Roehrenonkel]

Hi martin72,

open the relay-library (or the one containing your part),
copy the 3-element symbol, create a new one (single contact / Schliesser).
Create a new Device and connect all the symbols.
I'm running V4.16, hope my info is still up to date.
Feel free to ask more details.

Good luck

[Martin72]

Thank you both, will try it tomorrow.