Hi Jim, it's quite easy to copy between libraries once you know how. For *.pcblib files open both libraries and make sure the PCB Library window is showing (View Library ribbon option, don't confuse with View Libraries). Right click on a component in the PCB Library window and select Copy, switch to the other (destination) library by clicking its document tab and in the PCB Library window right click and select Paste 1 Components. The same works for *.schlib files, in the final step the option is simply Paste.
i JUST spent a while trying to figure out how to add a new component to a CircuitStudio project from Digikey. Add my vote to OFFICIALLY support CircuitStudio as an export conversion target format for Ultra Librarian.
p-cad component is not in library
This is a great article on using Ultra Librarian with CircuitStudio. We are always happy to see interest in our library; however, I would like to point out that we do not officially support output to CircuitStudio, and this article is a workaround to that issue. We recently had a CircuitStudio user complain that he experienced off-grid pins and duplicate pads on the top and bottom of the board. While neither of these problems is particularly difficult to fix in CircuitStudio, it is not the level of quality we find acceptable. CircuitStudio is on the list of products we would like to eventually support, but for now, please understand that this workaround may require additional verification before you use the downloaded parts.
Actually, the TX16W file does have component legends etc. as you can see by this file which results from importing it into Eagle 7.5.0: -bugs/TX16W-memory-board-1992-from-Altium-16-0-exported-as-P-CAD-ASCII.PCB.brd , which, when opened with Kicad 4.0.1 shows the full design: -bugs/TX16W-memory-board-1992-from-Altium-16-0-exported-as-P-CAD-ASCII.PCB.brd.kicad_pcb .
Tom, I didn't see your message earlier. I tried removing the first line and got an error message from pcb_parser.cpp "unknown token "asciiheader"". Likewise when I deleted everything before "(library".I got various errors with other attempts at editing the file which I won't list here, because it would be more meaningful for someone to try the same things with the latest version of the program running under a debugger. I have not yet been able to compile Kicad under Linux, and I don't want to try it for Windows. (I do want to use it under Windows for various reasons to do with monitors, printers and my Logitech trackball, so Linux compilation would only be for debugging.)
This problem stems from inconsistent library creation. Are these in your own created libraries or do you use external library sources. In either case you need to make sure you are consistent with how they are oriented. You need to rotate the footprint in the library, then update the PCB and rotate it back to correct for the library change. Unfortunately it's a library issue which is going lead to a lot of rework potentially to correct.
This is a problem which exists across all ECAD packages. You have to define a consistent orientation somewhere and the library is the correct place to define it then it's correct wherever you use the part. There is an IPC standard which defines the Zero Orientation of parts in the part library.
Still, I think that there should be an easier way to change the orientation, as a device property in the library. Without having to actually rotate the thing everywhere, since it's only used by the PnP export and it would mess up all the projects where the component is used.
The IPC package generator in EAGLE which I would imagine is the same as in Fusion Electronics and on Library.io creates both the footprint and the 3D model as a pair for a large number of different types of components based on the parameters you provide. It can't do all types of footprints but it does a lot. I've built up a lot of my more recent libraries using this generator (with some manual tweaks for things like the mask opening for BGA's and sorting the font type/size) and I never have issues with component orientation because they are all generated consistently to the IPC specs.
Also, you could solve this in this way if you really needed to but it's not simple. You could add a custom attribute to the part in the library to specify its mounting orientation, then take a copy of mount-smd.ulp and customise it to look for that attribute and use that value instead if it exists.
Did you already try to just ignore this message? Basically the library element check (which shows this warning) is just a help to follow best practices and our library conventions. You can still ignore (some of) these warnings, save the symbol and use it in your schematics.
The EST project presented here represents the third largest sequencing effort for any crustacean, and the largest effort for any crab species. Our assembly and clustering results suggest that our porcelain crab EST data set is equally diverse to the much larger EST set generated in the Daphnia pulex genome sequencing project, and thus will be an important resource to the Daphnia research community. Our homology results support the pancrustacea hypothesis and suggest that Malacostraca may be ancestral to Branchiopoda and Hexapoda. Our results also suggest that our cDNA microarrays cover as much of the transcriptome as can reasonably be captured in EST library sequencing approaches, and thus represent a rich resource for studies of environmental genomics.
Porcelain crabs are well adapted to the thermal environments they inhabit [11], [14], [15], and thus present an exciting model system for application of comparative functional genomics in studies of gene expression profiles during thermal acclimation (in the laboratory), acclimatization (in the natural environment), or in response to thermal extremes (heat shock or cold shock) that are characteristic of intertidal zone environments [17], [18]. To facilitate use of functional genomics for ecophysiology [18] we have constructed several EST libraries and sequenced a large number of cloned cDNAs from each library (Table 1). Our initial library construction and sequencing was based on a rather small number of clones from non-normalized libraries [19]. Here we present the construction of large normalized EST libraries (Table 1) and assembly and annotation of both normalized and non-normalized libraries.
Pathway mapping of clustered consensus sequences through the KEGG KAAS resulted in a total of 215 pathways represented by our consensus sequence set. At the broadest categorical level, our library covers 120 metabolic pathways, 16 genetic information processing pathways, 18 environmental information processing pathways, 32 cellular process pathways, and 29 disease pathways. In all cases, pathways or enzyme classifications for prokaryotic or plant-specific genes were absent in the KAAS results. For specific pathways within each broad category, we had varying amounts of each pathway represented in our gene set. Importantly, our porcelain crab library covers 100% of conserved central energy metabolism pathways of glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation (Table 7). Other pathways such as lipid metabolism, nucleotide and protein synthesis pathways, and many signaling pathways (e.g., MAPK, Wnt) were also well represented in our gene set.
Graphic comparison of coverage of central metabolic pathways in the porcelain crab transcriptome compared to coverage resulting from the Daphnia pulex genome project is a useful mechanism for assessing the completeness of the Petrolisthes cinctipes transcriptome. While the porcelain crab ESTs we have generated have excellent coverage of carbohydrate and energy metabolism (Figure 4, purple lines), they lack in coverage of nucleotide metabolism, and to a lesser extend lipid and amino acid metabolism (Figure 4, red lines). For example, several glycosphingolipid biosynthesis pathways and glycerophospholipid metabolism are much better represented in the D. pulex genome than the P. cinctipes ESTs (Figure 4). Glycosphingolipids contain the amino alcohol sphingosine, which is a component of sphingomyelin, a lipid component of myelin sheath Schwann cells [36]. Potentially the presence of these pathways in Daphnia and the absence in Petrolisthes indicates that Daphnia have greater potential for possessing myelinated axons, which are known in fast swimming copepods [37], [38]. Several metabolic enzymes were present in the P. cinctipes EST set that are not present in the KEGG KAAS metabolic maps from the D. pulex genome data (Figure 4, blue lines). Quite likely, the P. cinctipes pathway map is an incomplete representation of what the genome holds, and the pathway maps should also be updated as the D. pulex genome annotation progresses.
An ambitious worldwide library design competition occurred in 1999, among five invited firms: Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Rotterdam, Netherlands; Steven Holl, New York, NY; Norman Foster and Partners, London, UK; Cesar Pelli, New Haven, CT; and Zimmer Gunsul Frasca (ZGF), Portland, OR; finalists were OMA, Steven Holl, and ZGF; OMA awarded the contract in September 1999; OMA Partners-in-Charge: Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Ramus; LMN Partner-in-Charge: John Nesholm; Seattle City Librarian, Deborah Jacobs, collaborated with OMA and LMN closely on the project; Jacobs emphasized a collaborative approach to design, eliciting ideas from the public and staff in frequent meetings; renowned engineer, Cecil Balmond, Chairman of Europe & Building Division at Arup, the huge engineering firm, participated in the engineering work on the building; Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners engineered the glass curtain wall facade; the curtain wall was awarded an American Institute of Architects Washington Chapter 2000 Award; Hoffman Construction Company was the building contractor; subsequent to the building's completion, a dispute arose over cost over-runs between Hoffman Construction and the administration of the Seattle Public Library; Bruce Mau Design Incorporated, Toronto, ON, consulted on the library's signage; Petra Blaisse was the landscape architect; in 1999, the scheduled completion date was 2003, although several factors conspired to delay the opening: asbestos removal from the old library was slow, the construction company experienced excavation problems, a retaining wall on Fifth Avenue needed extra repairs, and delays occurred in the ordering of the steel members forming for the facade; the building actually opened Sunday, 05/23/2004; 2ff7e9595c
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