User Guide

Style specifiesthewayitisdisplayed: Lines or Dots.
The two options On and Off under Display switch the grid display on or
off.
Style specifiesthewayitisdisplayed: Lines or Dots.
The two options On and Off under Display switch the grid display on or
off.
Finest sets the finest grid that is possible. Clicking on default will select
the editor's standard grid. The last button returns to whatever grid was
previouslyset.
5.4 Namesand AutomaticNaming
Length
NamesinEAGLEcanhaveanydesiredlength.Thereisnolimit.
ForbiddenCharacters
No names may contain spaces or umlauts. Quotation marks, semico
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lons, and other exotic characters (above 127 in the ASCII table) should
beavoidedasfaraspossible.
Device names must not contain either question marks or asterisks, since
these characters are used as placeholders for package variants and
technologies.
Commasmustbeavoidedinpadnames.
Part-busnamesmustnotcontaincolons,commasorsquarebrackets.
AutomaticNaming
If a name is given together with one of the commands PIN, PAD, SMD,
NET, BUS or ADD, then other names will be derived from it as long as
thecommandisstillactive.
The name is simply typed into the command line before placing the ele
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ment (while it is attached to the mouse). Note that the name must be
placedwithinsimplequotationmarks.Entryiscompletedwith ¬ .
Theexamplesillustratehowautomaticnamingfunctions:
ADDDIL14'U1' ¬ •••
fetches three DIL14 elements to the board and names them U1, U2 and
U3(• correspondstoamouseclick).
PADOCT'1' ¬ ••••
placesfouroctagonalpadswiththenames1,2,3,and4.
If the name consists of only one character from A...Z, then the follow
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ingobjectsreceivethefollowinglettersofthealphabetasnames:
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PrinciplesforWorkingwithEAGLE