autotrax component library

Phil,

I am assuming you are talking about Protel Autotrax? If so, check out the RCS site:

If you are using "The Other" Autotrax, this info will probably be no good.

Andy

Yes, sorry, I am talking about Protel Autotrax. I have looked at your link and will email the author to see if they have what I am after. Thanks!

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an

For something as simple as that, why not just create your own? I find a pair of vernier callipers helpful.

MrT.

Don't, whatever you do, ask Bob this question. Without trying to speak on his behalf he doesn't take kindly to people who don't do their own homework. He has gone to the trouble of providing his libraries for free and it is up to you to download them and see if they contain the component you are looking for. Failing that it is easy enough to design your own component using a vernier gauge and a real component.

See

You may also download Airborn Electronics libraries

How do I do that? I don't see a menu to design my own component.

Thanks Ross. I have looked at the menus in Autotrax and I dont see an option to make my own component. Am I missing something?

I did a google search and i have seen the airborn page, but it does not show a 3.5mm connector on the listing.

Cheers, Phil

Failing that it is easy enough to

Press the "L" button, that brings up the library menu.

SC did several articles on using AutoTrax a while back, can't remember if it had anything on creating components though.

Dave :)

create the component on the screen with the usual pads & tracks etc and define the component area using the "Block" command. It will ask you to set the reference point (usually centre of pin1), and then you can select Library and Add Component. Make sure you create and load your own library first though, somewhere in the Library menu.

I'm sure someone will correct me if that ain't exactly right.

Dave :)

"David L. Jones" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:

It's been a long long time since I did, but your description certainly fits what I remember. A 'component' is no more than a bunch of lines and circles and text on various layers that happen to be stuck together in a 'block' and then stuck in a library.

If the part you need is at all complex, often the easiest way to build it up is to take the closest thing you can find from an existing library, 'explode' it, modify it, and regroup the individual bits into a new 'component'.

HTH,

GB

Thanks guys. I'll give it a go.

Close enough that I wouldn't bother to argue, but I haven't used it for a while either. I did create my own component libraries though, and never had much trouble myself.

MrT.

I do it the easy way, with good 'ol Bishop Graphics stick-on lines & donuts. Never believed in that new-fangled "CAD" stuff.

Bob

SNIP

Go on Bob, if I can do it, you can - and I'm an ex PMG/Telecom/Telstra tech like you. It really is fairly simple after you read all the documentation you can find, and make a few blunders along the way - took me about a week and I was able to make my own components library and produce a few board designs.

Thanks David! Bob Barnes is an old mate of mine. I'll see if he can give me some pointers about how to do artworks with a PC. :-)

Cheers Bob