Eagle Surface Mount libraries?

[Patrick Timlin]

Hi all,

I have long known about Eagle but never really looked at it much since
I have always used OrCAD for schematic work and never laid out my own
boards. Well now I am interested in being able to do my own layouts,
so I thought I might give Eagle a look so that I can easily go from
schematic to board layout.

Last night I installed it and played with it for a short time and one
thing has be baffled. Where are standard descrete surface mount
components like 0805, 1206, 0603, etc.? I can find resistors and caps
no problem in thru hole versions, but in the million libraries that
come with Eagle, I can not for the life of me find any evidence of
standard surface mount footprints for caps, resistors, diodes, etc. I
assume it must be me since I can not imagine with all those libraries
they left out something so basic as being able to put down an 0805 10k
resistor for example.

Can anyone point me as to which library these common layouts must be
hiding? I can not image I would have to create me own library for
these all to common parts.

Patrick

 

[maxfoo]

Hi all,

I have long known about Eagle but never really looked at it much since
I have always used OrCAD for schematic work and never laid out my own
boards. Well now I am interested in being able to do my own layouts,
so I thought I might give Eagle a look so that I can easily go from
schematic to board layout.

Last night I installed it and played with it for a short time and one
thing has be baffled. Where are standard descrete surface mount
components like 0805, 1206, 0603, etc.? I can find resistors and caps
no problem in thru hole versions, but in the million libraries that
come with Eagle, I can not for the life of me find any evidence of
standard surface mount footprints for caps, resistors, diodes, etc. I
assume it must be me since I can not imagine with all those libraries
they left out something so basic as being able to put down an 0805 10k
resistor for example.

Can anyone point me as to which library these common layouts must be
hiding? I can not image I would have to create me own library for
these all to common parts.

Patrick

they're in the rcl library.

 

[Chaos Master]

Patrick Timlin screamed:

Hi all,

I have long known about Eagle but never really looked at it much since
I have always used OrCAD for schematic work and never laid out my own
boards. Well now I am interested in being able to do my own layouts,
so I thought I might give Eagle a look so that I can easily go from
schematic to board layout.

Last night I installed it and played with it for a short time and one
thing has be baffled. Where are standard descrete surface mount
components like 0805, 1206, 0603, etc.? I can find resistors and caps
no problem in thru hole versions, but in the million libraries that
come with Eagle, I can not for the life of me find any evidence of
standard surface mount footprints for caps, resistors, diodes, etc. I
assume it must be me since I can not imagine with all those libraries
they left out something so basic as being able to put down an 0805 10k
resistor for example.

Can anyone point me as to which library these common layouts must be
hiding? I can not image I would have to create me own library for
these all to common parts.

They're in the RCL library.

 

[Steven Swift]

Hi all,

Can anyone point me as to which library these common layouts must be
hiding? I can not image I would have to create me own library for
these all to common parts.

Patrick

Used to be called "smd.lbr" Search for that. ALmost everything is there.

Steve.

 

[Patrick Timlin]

[email protected] (Patrick Timlin) wrote ...

I can not for the life of me find any evidence of
standard surface mount footprints for caps, resistors, diodes, etc.

Thanks Maxfoo and Chaos, NOW I can find them!!!

P.