Manual Version 6 - Cadsoft

4 A First Look at EAGLE
➢ Control Panel: On the right, the description of the RCL library
Library Summary
The possibility of displaying the contents of the libraries is particularly
interesting. It provides a very rapid overview of the available Devices.
Expand the Libraries entry, and you can see the available libraries. In the
Description field you can see a brief description of the contents. If a library is
selected, you will see more extensive information about the library in the
right hand part of the Control Panel. If you then expand a library entry, the
contents will be displayed together with a short description of each element.
Devices and Packages are marked with a small icon.
Now select, for example, a Device:
The description of the Device and a graphical representation of it appear on
the right. The available Package and technology variants are listed. If you
click onto one of the Package versions, the Package preview shown above will
change.
If a Schematic Editor window is open, the entry ADD will be shown right of
the variant name. Click it and the Device is attached to the mouse cursor as
soon as it is over the Schematic Editor window. Now you can drop it in the
schematic.
If you are only working with the Layout Editor, this will of course also
operate with Packages. It is, additionally, possible to drag a Device from the
tree view into a schematic diagram and to place it there by means of
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