User Guide

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:
ADDNAND'A' ¬ ••••
fetches four NAND gates with the names A, B, C and D. If the gener
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ated name reaches Z, then names with the default prefix will again be
generated(e.g.G$1).
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PrinciplesforWorkingwithEAGLE