Make Your Own PCBs with EAGLE: From Schematic Designs to Finished Boards

CHAPTER 11

Creating Libraries and Parts

Experienced EAGLE users often find it useful to start building their own library of components that they use frequently. This chapter shows you how to do this and how to copy and modify components from other libraries.

It is easier to copy and modify an existing component than to create a new one entirely from scratch, so we will develop an example where we modify the pad positioning of a part.

Creating a Library

Parts libraries are each held as a single file with the extension .lbr in the lbr folder within ...