Multiple Schematic Sheets in Eagle?

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Greetings Phil,

Philba:
I perhaps should have said “copy and paste”. It shows scissors for copy. You have to group select then click on “copy” (which looks like “cut” to a normal person) then it is in the copy buffer. There is no feedback that the copy operation actually happened. You can’t copy a single item (you MUST group select). This where modal UIs basically suck.

Agreed. That is perhaps the most non-intuitive operation

in the EAGLE GUI. However, it is consistent and

reliable, so once you have it mastered it works well.

You can lasso a single component, if fact you need only

enclose the component’s reference point (a small cross

symbol) to use the copy and paste function. Once it’s

on the clipboard you can place it on the same sheet,

another sheet, or even close the project and open or

start a new one, to place it. Another nice thing is being

able to stamp out multiple copies of the same clipboard

contents - a lot of “digital” design is repetitive.

Once I came through the initial steep learning curve

on EAGLE, I found many PCB related maintenance

tasks to be quite easy in EAGLE. In particular, starting

a new project by combining sections of other projects,

or extending a design to an extra sheet, or reworking

an existing design to update one or more parts.

I find EAGLE to be good value for my needs, and I’m

delighted to see that many new EAGLE user’s are turning

out good work on their first attempt. PCB tools are

not the same as Microsoft Office or other SOHO tools…

Comments Welcome!

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Perhaps I am overly enthusiastic about Pulsonix and EasyPC, but they are nice applications, with excellent support. If Eagle users could get CadSoft to be as responsive to their needs as WestDev, it would be a much better product. For instance, I suggested that a useful feature for Pulsonix would be a facility for a track to automatically ‘flow’ round another track or other feature when routing manually. In a couple of days I got a new version which implemented my suggestion, and it was incorporated in the next release. I don’t know of many companies that would do that.

Leon