Parts
Eagle CAD Parts Search
11/02/09 06:07 Filed in: Eagle CAD
News: ESawdust is now offering a free Eagle CAD electronic parts search available on ESawdust.com.
Synopsis: The impetus for this came from a general frustration with not being able to easily find components in the sea of Eagle parts libraries.
There are two problems. One, a part you need may already exist in the Eagle libraries, but you can’t find it, so it might as well not exist. Two, the component you’re looking for may exist in a 3rd party Eagle library, but you don’t want to have to download every contributed library and search it to find out.
There’s no way to search the contents of contributed libraries from the Eagle site. You might get lucky and find what you’re looking for on the web page of contributed libraries based solely on the overall description of the library, but for actual parts, you would need to download each library candidate and search it locally.
Bottom line: Out of the thousands of parts available in the Eagle CAD libraries, it can be very difficult to find the part you’re looking for with the Eagle CAD search mechanism. There has to be a better way, so we made one.
How the ESawdust Eagle Parts Search Engine Works
First, we downloaded all Eagle contributed libraries. Next we developed an SCR script file to export all libraries, including the standard, builtin libraries of Eagle, to SCR text files that can be indexed and searched using more powerful search methods.
With the ESawdust Eagle electronic parts search engine, you can use regular expressions or simple literal strings to find many more parts types than you can with Eagle’s search.
You can search for device names, descriptions, even package types and the search algorithm will product a summary of the library names where the component can be found along with detailed discoveries of Eagle parts in the libraries.
Give it a try and let us know what you think.
Synopsis: The impetus for this came from a general frustration with not being able to easily find components in the sea of Eagle parts libraries.
There are two problems. One, a part you need may already exist in the Eagle libraries, but you can’t find it, so it might as well not exist. Two, the component you’re looking for may exist in a 3rd party Eagle library, but you don’t want to have to download every contributed library and search it to find out.
There’s no way to search the contents of contributed libraries from the Eagle site. You might get lucky and find what you’re looking for on the web page of contributed libraries based solely on the overall description of the library, but for actual parts, you would need to download each library candidate and search it locally.
Bottom line: Out of the thousands of parts available in the Eagle CAD libraries, it can be very difficult to find the part you’re looking for with the Eagle CAD search mechanism. There has to be a better way, so we made one.
How the ESawdust Eagle Parts Search Engine Works
First, we downloaded all Eagle contributed libraries. Next we developed an SCR script file to export all libraries, including the standard, builtin libraries of Eagle, to SCR text files that can be indexed and searched using more powerful search methods.
With the ESawdust Eagle electronic parts search engine, you can use regular expressions or simple literal strings to find many more parts types than you can with Eagle’s search.
You can search for device names, descriptions, even package types and the search algorithm will product a summary of the library names where the component can be found along with detailed discoveries of Eagle parts in the libraries.
Give it a try and let us know what you think.
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