RE: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Finding a part in the libraries

["Micky A. Blain" <mblain@powersmart.com>]

Have you tried downloading the PDF file off of their web site? I downloaded
the PDF file then placed them in a notebook. This made it really easy to
access the information.

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Jeff Nelson wrote:

> Is there some easy way, or a utility, that I can use to find a part in the
> many libraries?  It seems like I spend a large chunk of time whenever I
> start a new project (or even changing an existing project) looking for
> existing (or maybe non-existing) parts in both the schematic and pcb
> libraries.  I'm sure I've made my own parts when they actually existed in
a
> library already but I just couldn't find them.
>
> It would seem that at a minimum, Protel would have a global list function
> which could at least list all the parts in all the libraries.  Am I
missing
> something?

I have seen that Orcad provides a book showing all of their component
libraries.  I wish Protel would do the same.  It would be much easier to
find a
part by browsing a book than searching obscure names or looking one
footprint
at a time.