topic Search function in EAGLE Forum

Search function

raff.pls — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:58:13 GMT

Searching in library folder at Control Panel results in one item only - hitting the button NEXT does not work although there are next items with same name.

Re: Search function

jorge_garcia — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 17:30:33 GMT

Hi @raff.pls,

I hope you're doing well. Are you looking for parts? In general it works best to search for parts using the ADD command of the schematic editor. Remember that EAGLE's search function is not like google, it by default looks for exact matches. Look at the parts that the search doesn't find you'll notice that they have characters that aren't part of your search string. The control panel search tends to be slow because it looks through all of your assets not just component parts.

Please let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Re: Search function

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:32:02 GMT

"The search function looks exactly for the given search pattern. If you are using more search patterns, all of them must occur in order to get a match. The search function has access to all objects that can be displayed in the tree view, like file names, Device and Package names in libraries, and for example the short description shown in the Descritpion column. In order to make the search more flexbile wildcards are allowed. ? stands for any character, * for any number of any character. In case you want to search for a name that contains a *, you have to escape it with a backslash: 40\*14, for example, searches for 40*14." Eagle manual in C:\EAGLE 9.3.0\doc\manual_en.pdf

Jorge, are you planning to improve the speed and ease of use of the part search, for example to have an option to let it be like the search of google?

P.S.: For those that landed here because there were looking for a component search in the schamatic/board: the "find" ULP script will help you. In Menu > Options > Assign (shortcuts) I added Ctrl + F with the assigned command "Run find" to open the dialog quickly.