Go into the real (professional) world and see how many companies use Eagle. The only companies I've encountered using it are those that cater to hobbyists (ie SFE) or that started out as hobbyists. It is unheard of. Big companies generally don't care if hobbyists use their parts - to them they see it as a sale of 5 pieces when normally they're selling reels of their components. (there is the argument that a hobbyists might then design that part into an actual product - but most companies seem to ignore this)s_mack:
Lol… that’s a funny attitude!“you expect a company to provide customer service that will help you buy their product?”
Yes, of course I do. You don’t??
Molex has to go to the trouble of engineering, drawing, and providing 3d models of their products… you really think footprint libraries would be trouble for them?
Eagle is pretty darned well used, but it doesn’t really matter… they (the manufacturers) just need to decide on any format and the Eagle’s of the world will support the importation of it… or they won’t, at their own peril.
I find it amazing how there’s so many people that jump to the defense of these poor multinational conglomerates whenever a suggestion that something can be better comes up.
Hope that works out for you.
However, I strongly agree that there needs to be a standardized format for this stuff. I suspect that if there was, you’d see a lot more companies providing footprints for their stuff. It’s incredible to me that there is no standard yet.