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

[Frances Wheeler <wdfran@peganet.com>]

I found that the best way to keep track of parts in the PCB library is by using
a Database outside of protel listing :

Vendor part number (can be many vendor names)
Mfg name
Library name
footprint name

You can add whatever parameters will make it easy to locate your part.

Fran Wheeler
Wheeler Design
Punta Gorda, FL

Geoff Harland 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?
> >
> > Jeff Nelson
>
> Protel provides a "Find (Schematic Component)" function for components
> within *Schematic* Library files, which can be invoked from the 'Tools/Find
> Component...' item in the default menu for the Schematic Server or Schematic
> Library Server.
>
> However, as of yet, no similar capability has been provided for components
> (footprints) within *PCB* Library files. (And Protel has yet to support an
> ASCII format for PCB Library files, which further compromises the
> possibility of users running grep commands on such files to locate instances
> of particular footprints.) I agree that it would be a desirable feature to
> have provided, as there are times when I would like to be able to search PCB
> Library files for particular footprints as well.
>
> Regards,
> Geoff Harland.
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