Re: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Merging libraries

["Chris Mogford" <chris.mogford@varianinc.com>]

Yes, it wasn't obvious to me either.
But please oh please, those using this method please remember that the
origin
does not stay in the same position, it always goes to pin 1 or A.
So if a library symbol has an origin in the centre or pin K it will lose it.
Beware.

Regards,
Chris Mogford
chris.mogford@osi.varianinc.com
The above views do not Represent Varian Australia in any way.




----- Original Message -----
From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <marjan@vom.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list proteledausers
<proteledausers@techservinc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 4:24 AM
Subject: RE: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Merging libraries


> 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
>
>
>