Adding components to the library

[cwalsh561]

I need to design a schematic using a PIC processor and ULN 2803 (Darlington drivers) but cannot find either in the library. The PIC processors are, I believe, manufactured by Microchip but their data file will not download into the Fusion library.

How do I import the data for these ICs?

Chris

[jorge_garcia]

Hello @cwalsh561,

I hope you're doing well. The best long term recommendation is to learn to make library parts, it's not that hard and becomes invaluable since you won't have to rely on the possibly incorrect libraries of others, nor will you have to wait for someone to produce the part you need.

In the short term, I believe the old EAGLE libraries contained the ULN2803 and a sampling of PIC processors. You can bring those libraries in by clicking the ADD command in the Schematic editor and then selecting OPen Library Manager. Go to the available tab and then click the install bundled libraries.

If you can find any EAGLE libraries for these parts these will readily import into Fusion360 electronics.

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

Best Regards,

[cwalsh561]

Thanks Jorge.  That's a solution that will get me out of trouble short term - then I'll find out how to make my own components.

Thanks again.

Chris Walsh

[kb9ydn · Accepted solution]

The ULN2803 is in the "ULN-UDN" library.  There is also a Microchip library with a bunch of PIC controllers.  Both of these are Eagle maintained libraries so they should be available in Fusion.  You may have to open the library manager though and add them to your "in use" libraries.

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[cwalsh561]

Thanks Jorge.

Is there a video or a document I can find to show how to design my own electronic components?  This would be really helpful.

Chris

[jorge_garcia · Accepted solution]

Hi @cwalsh561,

I hope you're doing well. See this livestream we did recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlnHfN2xznk

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

Best Regards,

[nick7LNK4]

Hi Jorge,

I have just found this thread whilst trying to find a way to import existing libraries into FE.  However if I follow your steps of selecting ADD in the schematic editor, opening the Library Manager, selecting the Available tab, whereupon I can see a list of libraries including the one I need, when I press the 'Install Bundled Libraries' button I get a warning come up saying 

Bundled library JSON can not be loaded

Any idea why this would be and how to fix it please?

Many thanks

Nick

[BrettCottle]

Have just had the same issue, did you ever find a fix for this?

[cwalsh561]

I'm sorry to say I didn't.
In the end I gave up using the electronics design section of Fusion and now
use EasyEDA. It's much easier to get your head around!

[BrettCottle]

Hopefully these issues get resolved as in practice E CAD built into Fusion dose make product dev easier and just makes sense, apart for that issue have been having real success with everything else.   

[cwalsh561]

I agree that incorporating electronic design into Fusion is a great idea - especially for those who want to design the PCB and its enclosure together. 

Fusion is such a powerful and comprehensive piece of software that extending it to electronic design seems a natural step forward. 

As an electronics engineer, I have learned how to operate Fusion to a level where it is very useful to me and there is, in my opinion, nothing to compare with Fusion 360 for its flexibility and ease of use for mechanical design.

However,  I do struggle with the new integration of Eagle. It seems to make the electronic design process too complicated - certainly for my needs - which is why I prefer Easy EDA. 

Let's hope somebody at Autodesk reads our comments and can do something to improve the E-CAD functionality.

Chris

[BrettCottle]

@jorge_garcia any thoughts on this issue?  seems odd.

[HarrySatt]

Hi

Up to now I worked with standalone EAGLE electronic design. I created a lot of private shared libs but in FUSION360 I can use them but I am not able to modify the contents as I did with EAGLE. Is there another workflow? What I realised is that I receive readonly libs which they should not be because that are my private libs and should be available.

How can I work with my preworked libs. In EAGLE I start edit and change or add parts and create a new version of the libs.

Regards, Harald

[RichardHammerl]

Hi @HarrySatt ,

so you are working with libraries coming from library.io (your EAGLE libraries), correct.

It is possible to edit them. The easiest way would be to open the Library Manager and go to the In Use tab. Now select the library you want to edit and click the Edit button.

The library editor will open and then you can edit.  

Hope this helps. 

Regards,

[Anonymous]

I am a relative novice to Eagle - tried both editing an existing part, and creating a new part, a few times, then save.

But - where does the saved part go to?  I just haven't been able to find the new parts.

Hopefully not to the Cloud - I work off-line most of the time - because I have to fit in this work with my main duties - and find having to reload libraries EVERY time I log in both tedious, time wasting, and expensive (data usage).

Can anyone help please?

[Anonymous]

Whilst a relative novice, I’ve been using Eagle freeware for some years now – quite happily using Library Loader.

Have continued in this vein since renting Eagle Premium using:

to download specialist component ECAD models from SamacSys, and store them in a local library named  SamacSys_Parts.  These were always immediately accessible, off-line, without having to reload them every time.

Yesterday I possibly made the mistake of using Eagle’s inbuilt system

This had the unfortunate side effect that it seemed to proceed normally, but when I looked for that library in the pull-down ADD feature, the library no longer existed.

I invoked the Library Manger – which shows this library – selected it and clicked “Use” - after a long and tedious update – seemed to work.

When I then went back into “ADD”, the part headings ALL came back – but no symbol, nor footprint showed up.

When I then proceed anyway, I get the following:

What to do – what has happened – why did it happen, without any warning - how do I rectify this please?

I'll add this - I tried using the Library Loader to re-load one or 2 of the parts - it came back with "part already exists in library, do you wish to overwrite?" or similar words - I answered YES.  But - the library was still disappeared when I tried ADD - and when I went through the laborious process again, the re-installed part heading showed, but still no symbol or footprint.

Just 2 notes:

1. I wish to continue to work off-line, so need the libraries local.
2. I do not wish to go on-line, and re-download the library EVERY time I open Eagle – as I access this repeatedly from time-to-time between other jobs – the data costs would cripple me.

Hope someone can help please, as I was about to submit a prototype board for manufacture – just wanted to change 1 inductor for another - when this happened.

Disgruntled

Ian Thompson

[yaqoubdesign]

Did you get any solution for this?

[Anonymous]

No useful help from Autodesk on this - so I started from scratch and
re-loaded all the lost components using Library Loader.

[Kristey]

Up to this topic...

Libraries, management of them and import componentes ......

It remains forgotten in time or with irrelevant and inconsistent changes that reflect productivity.

I want to import just ONE component from another library, and it is almost easier to create the component again.

[yaqoubdesign]

Yes, but they are improving a lot!