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Comments: How to Install and Setup EAGLE

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  • BOLO_Mark_I / about 11 years ago / 2

    Thank you for this excellent series of tutorials on how to setup and use the Eagle electrical design and PCB layout tool. Learning this tool is something that was on my bucket list and you made it easy and quick for me. After 1 day of going through your tutorials, I was able to capture a board electrical design and convert it from a hard wired prototype to a PCB in less than 2 days.

    Thanks again.

    • Joel_E_B / about 11 years ago / 1

      Thank you for reading! Glad you enjoy our tutorials.

  • Member #842541 / about 3 years ago / 1

    Does Sparkfun have any plans to update the "Managed Libraries" on Library.io so that those of us use managed libraries can get the updates to the library? The last update to many of those libraries on library.io happen over 4 years ago.

  • Member #63975 / about 5 years ago / 1

    Will the Eagle tutorials ever be updated? They seem to date from about 7 years ago. I have installed Eagle 9.6.1 on Fedora 29, and attempted to follow this and the following Eagle tutorials, but the further I proceed into them, the less my on-screen displays match the screen shots. Some directory names are different, and there are directories that don't exist in the tutorial, to the point that I am not sure if I am really doing anything worthwhile in following the directions.

    • santaimpersonator / about 5 years ago / 1

      Autodesk provides tutorials that will be more screen shot compatible with their latest software. I believe this tutorial was written when there weren't a lot of resources for users, before Eagle was bought out by AutoDesk... part of the reason why the layouts are different.

      Unfortunately, updating the tutorial takes time. Updating it is in our queue of this to do, but isn't a priority (like the documentation on our latest products).

  • Member #385591 / about 6 years ago / 1

    I wonder if EAGLE would work for making a schematic of the 12 volt system in our liveaboard sailboat. There are a lot of what we call "systems", e.g., watermaker, interior lighting, starter circuits, charging circuits, pumps, fans, SSB, navigation suite, etc. Thank you, Doug Siddens aboard SV Drakus

  • bboyho / about 8 years ago / 1

    -------------------- Tech Support Tips/Troubleshooting/Common Issues --------------------

    Exporting Part

    If you are not able to find an Eagle part in the library but the part is used on another board, you can try to export it. Below is an example with the mini FET shield [ https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9627 ] from a customer that I had a while back:

    You need to open the mini FET shield Eagle Files, select the MOSFET in the schematic, hit the File>Run... that is in the menu, select "exp-project-lbr.ulp" script, hit the Collect Data, and hit the Create Library. This will generate the library with the parts associated with the MOSFET.

  • Ducky Virus / about 9 years ago / 1

    have you guys considered forming your libs for other CAD applications, I know you guys are an EAGLE shop, but what about other editors, like Ki Cad or Atrium or the likes?

    • Toni_K / about 9 years ago / 1

      We definitely think about this a lot. Unfortunately, it comes down to lack of available resources - we simply don't have someone with the time to reform all of our libraries. However, we do open source them, so if anyone wanted to, they could take our libraries and modify them for a different CAD program.

  • Shadow6363 / about 11 years ago / 1

    You have a downloadable script to setup the environment listed, but you also have a repository at https://github.com/sparkfun/SparkFun_Eagle_Settings with a similar script. For the most part, the latter seems to be missing some of the color definitions of the former. Which of these two do you recommend using/which is more up-to-date?

    Thanks!

    • jimblom / about 11 years ago / 1

      Thanks for noticing that! I'll add a link to the SparkFun_Eagle_Settings GitHub repo in the tutorial.

      I like the one in this tutorial because it does specifically set the colors. I'll add those few lines to the GitHub repo too. The most up-to-date version of the file should be in the GitHub repo from here on.

      • Member #669115 / about 10 years ago / 1

        Thanks for this script, it solved a bunch of problems I had using Eagle. I'm coming from Altium Designer so you can imagine how tedious it is to learn Eagle. As a side note, Altium is prolly one of the best but nowadays wayyyyyyy too expensive - about 1500 euros per year to keep it updated - , and using it for our kind of projects is a bit like hiring an 200 tons haulpack to go to your local deli. But I'm digressing... in your script you make references to something abbreviated in BHW like in :

        SCH: Grid Default; #BHW Reset the grid to the standard value Change Width 0.006; #BHW Set the 6mil rule

        Sorry for the nubie question but what's this BHW ?

        Best regards and thanks for those great tutorials.

        • jimblom / about 10 years ago / 1

          Thanks! Glad this tutorial helped.

          Anything in that SCR file following a # is a comment (like // in C/C++), it won't have any effect on what the script does. I think "BHW" may just be the signature one of our engineers.

          • Member #669115 / about 10 years ago / 1

            ROFKCBA ! I've spent at least an hour trying to guess what acronym it was. Thanks for the tutorials AND for the good laugh.

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