Ok I need some help guys, I cant find my .lbr file on my computer, eagle can use it (access it / edit components, even mane new components and save them) but I can not find it looking threw my computer to host it on dropbox. WTH?!
I’m looking in the eagle folder in the program files as well as my eagle folder in the users folder where I keep my projects, even a search of my computer net’s nothing. what the hell is up with that?
Open Eagle: this will open the Control Panel window. Highlight your library in the Control Panel. Look at the very bottom of the window - the path to your file is displayed at the very bottom. For example, C:\EAGLE-7.1.0\lbr\adafruit.lbr
That’s where I was / am looking, apparently I’m not alone in having this problem, I found mention of this “bug” on several different forums, several linked to this thread on E14 with a solution
Here’s my file, its got lots of wire pad’s / via’s, its got spring pad’s (8mm, 8 but with only 5mm exposed, 5mm). There is another set of battery pad’s, this was when I needed to make a buck driver with one + and one - pad to make a cell connection. My version of 7135, my SOD-323 with slightly oversized (a little extra heigth) pad’s. some PIC parts, the parts needed for BU_CK and RGBW_Clicky and some other crap.
can someone download it and verify it opens for me please.
Other than mine my next most used library is supply.lbr in the E14 download’s, thats where I get my GND symbol and other crap (I use my own batt+ / Vin)
Edit:
Yes got it solved, I’m not sure why my .lbr wasnt visible in windows, I was looking in the exact directory that path told me to but my file was NOT in there, even on a whole hard drive search my file was nowhere to be found. I followed the instructions in that thread to copy and paste to the desktop and was able to get it to show up that way.
I downloaded your LBR file and glanced at it in Wordpad. Looks fine to me.
As to why it’s not showing up, it’s probably an attribute problem - hidden is the common culprit. You may paste this into your “Run” prompt in order to see if the file is listed, use ENTER or SPACE to page through the results:
cmd /K "dir /a C:\EAGLE-7.1.0\lbr\ | more"
or to check the attributes on that particular file, use this:
cmd /K "attrib C:\EAGLE-7.1.0\lbr\dan.lbr"
A normal file will show:
A C:\xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxwhateverxxxx
Whereas a file with the hidden and system attributes would show:
I think that the contents of this LBR are based on a combination of things from the regular Eagle distribution and Robert Star’s LBR-EX parts library. robertstarr (Bob Starr) · GitHub
Hey Alex, do you have a preferred library part you use for the LFPAK FET’s? I have a few that are in different stock libraries but there are some differences between them, wondering what one exactly you’re using.
I haven’t actually made a new part yet (yeah, I know) so I’ve been using a stock Eagle part. That part is under:
Transistor Power -> N-MOSFET-SO8S
That’s a correct Power-SO8 footprint. Then I drop a little rectangle of stop on top of it to fix the large exposed pad used on modern 5x6 packages, as well as 3 little rectangles of paste. It should work by itself without those things if someone wanted it to.
Does anyone have an edited 7135 “footprint” for mounting them standing up? I’ve seen somewhere a board design with them standing. I don’t remember who did it. I guess I could make one myself, but would much prefer a tried and tested version.
I have one, only thing is the way I do my library, I do it as a single large library instead of a new .lbr for every part I make. I will break off that one part [threw hole mounted 7135) and post it on my Dropbox today, will post link when I have it up for you…
And in the name of sharing, here’s my entire library, this has all the part’s I’ve made as well as all the parts I often use but didnt make myself (I copy part’s into my library so I only have to look in this one place and so when I’m doing backup’s I only have to backup this one file). If you’ve downloaded my library before I suggest throwing that file away and replacing it with this, I am constantly adding part’s.