Re: Creating a device in Eagle

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:34:10 +1000, Clifford Heath
<no@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I did my first schematic in Eagle last night.
>I wanted to show a piezo device (the CUI Inc CEP-1136,
>see http://www.cui.com/pdffiles/buzz_cep-1130.pdf),
>so I thought I'd build a device, symbol and package for it.
>Not unlike the F/SU in buzzer.lbr.

I don't use Eagle, so I can't help with your first questions.

>One other thing, this isn't really a footprint, as the
>package has three lead wires, it doesn't PC-mount. So I
>dropped three "pads" on the package where the wires come
>out. I guess that's ok, except the DRC will want to know
>why I haven't placed it - won't it? I also want to rename
>these pins.

If this thing is to connect to the PC board, you need some sort of
footprint or group of pads for it to connect to.

For off-board components I usually use a row of pads for the footprint
- they don't have to match the arrangement of terminals on the device
(although sometimes they do - my footprint for a DPDT switch is a 3 x
2 array of pads, arranged in the same way as the switch terminals).

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