Eagle Libraries

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

Did you solve your problem using that thread?
If not, what does the little bar at the bottom of your control panel say when you highlight your LBR?

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:

A  SH        C:\xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxwhateverxxxx

Cereal_killer asked for an LFPAK56 / Power-SO8 LBR in my A17DD-SO8 / A20DD-SO8 driver thread.

Here is the library.

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

Nice…thanks

Added to my previous repository as a secondary place to get em

Does anyone have a .lrb part for a mini (not micro) female USB plug?

The other thing I’m needing (tho I’m 99.9% sure I’ll have to make it) is one of those <$2 SOIC8 ZIF socket’s from ebay.

I believe there is a female mini USB in sparkfun’s library.

Perfect, thanks for the tip!

I made an Eagle LBR for the SOT89-5 part QX7136. I tweaked the exposed copper in v006, but I will probably revert back to v005. Here they both are.

Datasheet link:

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 was using the package from Robert Starr’s lbr_usr, but I decided that sucked! (sorry whoever made it… what document did you base the thing off of?) GitHub - robertstarr/lbr_user: Eagle LBR-EX Part Library Repository

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.

Once I make a new part I’ll post it.

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 think wight just used the correct size via’s

Manually placing them all out would be a hassle, I’d assumed the footprint was modified for easily placing of the vias.

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…

Here’s that file 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.

I think it would be good info to have in this thread-

How to copy part’s from a .sch or .brd, using 7.2 this is a very simple process no longer requiring a ULP.

Open the file (I always do this from the .sch but it should work from the .brd)
go to the file menu
go to export
the last option is library
Name it what you want, select the 2nd option (for convenience, any will work)

Thank you! Much appreciated! And thanks for your entire library, very nice of you to share.