electronics component

[Solar-emc]

Question: How do you import individual components from electronic suppliers like Digikey

Digikey uses ultralibrarian with a .scr file format

Fusions library manager wants a .lbr

is there a tutorial?

thank you

[engineeringNCMXB]

I have not tried in Fusion yet. The desktop Eagle, you would simply open the library you wanted it to be placed in and run the SCR. Not sure if that will work in Fusion or not.

As a side note: Almost every component I have imported this way needed some sort of adjustment. Sometimes just cosmetic, and sometimes something critical is wrong.

CHECK EVERY PIN AND EVERY PAD ON EVERY IMPORT. This is not an issue with Eagle/Fusion, but rather the entities that make the raw data. It is not a perfect translation and sometimes just human error.

[Solar-emc]

engineeringNCMXB

When I browse for my .scr file from Part/LibraryManager/Browser I don't see it. As the image shows, I have the file in the directory. There's only one file format choice in the browser windows Open window. ".lbr" This leads me to thing Fusion doesn't recognize ".scr"

Great advice on the accuracy of the imported parts. 

thank you

[Spragnut · Accepted solution]

I'm not at my pc just now, so this is from memory, when you've created a library and your in the window to add schematic parts, PCB footprints and create devices. Type script in the command box and it will bring up a separate window, select eagle and browse to your downloaded script and run it. It will compile the footprint in the design window.

I can't recall whether you need to be in the correct create section, so PCB footprint for a PCB footprint script etc, one import I needed to start a new foot print design before it would import but that may have been fixed now.

This also works for footprints created with programs like PCB Libraries.

[Solar-emc]

Spragnut,

That worked. I typed "script" in the command line below the ribbon and was able to then browse to my downloaded Digikey .scr file and import it. Sadly fusion through up 10 errors so I don't have any confidence in the file. Oh well, much to learn thanks oh so much with you and who helped.

mick

[Anonymous]

I am struggling with imported components as well, and more specifically, imported 3D stp files. But I have something to offer in the way of importing components from vendors like Digikey and Mouser.

From Digikey, you might look for SnapEDA models. They have a selector panel for your schematic capture tool, and it includes both Eagle and Fusion 360 Electronics. I have found that .lbr file seem to work. However, .scr files, although they run, generate a few errors.

From Mouser, you might need to download a utility called Library Loader. That can accept Mouser ECAD files, which seem to be from Samacsys. They also work.

Octopart, of course, is the "native" component source.

If anyone wants more details, respond and I'll see what I can do.

If anyone knows how to insert a local .stp 3D model into a component in a library, give me a pointer or some idea of how to do it.

Thanks, /Bob/

[logmeintoautodesk]

To import step files, first upload them to fusion: click upload file in the data manager panel on the left.

Then open your library, and select "Create a new 3d Model". Right click on the uploaded step file in the data manager on the left, and click "insert into current design". This will plop the step file into the package.

If you already have a footprint, select the footprint before creating a new 3d model - this way the footprint is in a sketch in the 3d model, and you can check if the step import makes sense.