At 05:26 PM 1/31/2002 +1100, Ian Wilson wrote: There is no Place-All command in Sch-Lib but you can select multiple library components in the component browse list (in SchLib) and then click the Place button. This then places all the selected components onto a schematic. I just tried - it seems to work.
>So your process does work for sch. Someone else can check to see if it >works in PCB. It doesn't work in PCB, but a slight variation does work. Select multiple footprints in PCBLib, rt.-click and Copy, then go to the PCB and Edit/Paste. This may be a good way to create a reference file for viewing footprints. But it is not a good way to merge libraries, because one is presumably going to do this with multiple libraries. When two or more footprints of the same name are placed into a PCB file from different libraries, nothing will distinguish them (at present, 99SE). They might be the same footprint, they might be quite different, they will still have the same name. And only one of them will be stuffed into the project library. It *may* be the second one to be placed which gets archived, that's what happened in my test. It probably depends on sequence in the database. But if you copy and paste, as previously described, into a PCB Library instead of into a PCB, duplicated footprints (i.e., duplicated names) both end up in the library, with the second or subsequent ones being suffixed to maintain uniqueness. You can then fairly quickly check them for identity. (Use the export to spread facility in PCBLib if you want to be thorough, it could be tedious to compare pad names otherwise. The spreadsheet can also be used to create complex footprints, just give it the right number of pads, of any name and location, to eat when you start, they can then be edited in spreadsheet -- I use Excel 97 -- to the desired locations. With a 256-pin BGA numbered with one of those skip-letter schemes, this is a lifesaver.) Wish list: spreadsheet export/update for SchLib. This would make it easier to assign and check pin electrical attributes. (But there is a Component report from SchLib that does give pin information, but fixing problems must be done in the SchLib editor, which can be a relatively tedious process.) In addition, the electrical attributes should display in the Pins window in the Panel. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abdulrahman Lomax Easthampton, Massachusetts USA * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
