RE: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Merging libraries

[Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <marjan@vom.com>]

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At 09:15 AM 9/4/00 -0700, Tony Karavidas wrote:
>Hmmm, OK. Another thing you can try is to open them both and copy all from
>one, and paste it into the other. For items that are named the same, it will
>add the word 'duplicate' to the component name. You can then go through the
>library and delete these, or if one of the duplicates is "better" than the
>original name, scrap the original and rename the duplicate.

Because it is less than obvious how to do this -- at least it was to me --, 
I'll give a little more detail.

With the source library open, show the library contents in the panel.

left-click once on the top footprint. Pull the slider down, or PageDown, to 
the bottom and shift-left-click on the bottom footprint. All footprint 
names should now be highlighted. Right-click in the panel, select Copy.

Open the target library and show its contents in the panel. Right-click in 
the panel. If you don't get an error message, select Paste and the contents 
of the source library will now be copied into the destination library.

Instead of the shift-click process I gave above for selecting all 
components, you can left-click on the first component and hold the mouse 
key down while sweeping down to the bottom component. But with a library of 
any reasonable size, it's faster to do what I suggested first.

It appears that right-click in the panel for an empty library causes a list 
out of bounds error. That's a bug, albeit a minor one, and should be fixed. 
It should be made possible to paste into an empty library.

In this case, the workaround to make a merged library is simply to copy one 
of the source libraries to the desired name for the new library, then use 
the above process to bring in the contents of each of the other source 
libraries.

marjan@vom.com
Abdulrahman Lomax
P.O. Box 690
El Verano, CA 95433



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