User Guide

Choose the library which contains the requested package and select it.
On the right half of the Control Panel a preview of the package is visible
now.
If the Control Panel and the Library Editor window are arranged in a
way that both windows are visible you can move the packge into the li
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brary window by keeping the left mouse button pressed. After releasing
the mouse button (Drag&Drop) the Library Editor will be in the pack
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ageeditingmode.Thepackageisshownthere.
Alternatively you could use a right mouse click to open the context
menu of the package entry in the tree view. Select Copy to Library now.
TheLibraryEditorneedsnottobevisible.
Now the package can be modified. The package name is adopted from
the source library. To change the package name use the RENAME
command.
Don'tforgettosavethelibrary.
DefiningtheVariant
We want to define a further variant for our example device. Switch to the
Device editing mode, for example, by the menu Libraries/Device. The
Edit window opens. Select the entry 54*1032A. Click OK to open the
editorwindow.
Use the New button to define a new variant. Select the package
MYSOP14 in the selection dialog and enter, for example, TEST2 as
variant name. After clicking OK a new entry is shown in the package
list.
To complete the definition execute the CONNECT command and de
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fineTechnologies(asdescribedinthepreviousparagraph)now.
8.11 DefiningPackagesinAnyRotation
Components can be defined in any rotation with a resolution of 0.1 de
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grees in the Package Editor. Usually the package is definied in normal
position first and rotated afterwards as a whole. The definition of pack
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ages has been already explained in this chapter. Here we only want to
elaborateontherotationofpackages.
Packages can be defined in any rotation! Schematic symbols can be rotated
in90-degreesstepsonly!
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