Eagle Tip #1 - Separating Label from Part
03/12/09 21:09 Filed in: Eagle CAD | Eagle Tutorial
Synopsis: This is the opening screencast of Eagle CAD Tips and Tutorials for New Users. I am (was?) a new user a few months ago and I found Eagle has an obtuse user interface if you’re used to fine digital graphic arts applications like Adobe Photoshop or Flash vector drawing applications. The objective of this series of screencasts is to help new users over the initial Eagle CAD bumps.
While Eagle is a very powerful schematic capture and PCB design package, there are many operations that are unintuitive in Eagle. I stumbled over most, if not all of them on my way to designing my first PCB. The problem with Eagle is you quickly hit walls and it’s difficult and time-consuming to guess your way around the Eagle user interface roadblocks.
As these sometimes painful lessons are still fresh in my mind, I am hoping to help others in the same boat learn the basics of Eagle more quickly. If I stumbled on it, I want to make a tutorial about the issue and how to get around it or make Eagle do what you want. If you have any requests for Eagle tutorials, send me an email perhaps I can figure out the issue you have or post something related to it.
Eagle Tip #1 - How to separate the label from the component and reposition the component’s label in an Eagle schematic
What’s the problem? If you rotate a part, the label rotates with it making it difficult to read or improperly positioned for a pleasing and easy to read schematc. This screencast demonstrates how to separate an Eagle component from its label and adjust its orientation and fine position.
Tip #2 - Selection and Movement
While Eagle is a very powerful schematic capture and PCB design package, there are many operations that are unintuitive in Eagle. I stumbled over most, if not all of them on my way to designing my first PCB. The problem with Eagle is you quickly hit walls and it’s difficult and time-consuming to guess your way around the Eagle user interface roadblocks.
As these sometimes painful lessons are still fresh in my mind, I am hoping to help others in the same boat learn the basics of Eagle more quickly. If I stumbled on it, I want to make a tutorial about the issue and how to get around it or make Eagle do what you want. If you have any requests for Eagle tutorials, send me an email perhaps I can figure out the issue you have or post something related to it.
Eagle Tip #1 - How to separate the label from the component and reposition the component’s label in an Eagle schematic
What’s the problem? If you rotate a part, the label rotates with it making it difficult to read or improperly positioned for a pleasing and easy to read schematc. This screencast demonstrates how to separate an Eagle component from its label and adjust its orientation and fine position.
Tip #2 - Selection and Movement
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