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Create your own library

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Create your own library

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- [Instructor] So before we really get down to setting up a complex new custom part for our design, let's start our own library. In previous videos, we saw that it's relatively difficult to navigate some of the stock libraries that come with EAGLE, so sometimes it's useful to make your own and then just put a subset of the parts in there so they're easier to find. To do this, I'll go up to File, New, and Library, and at first there will be nothing in here, but there's some important categories to see. So libraries are made up of symbols, kind of like with schematics. They're the abstract representation of a component. They've also got footprints, so that's the physical space the component will occupy. Sometimes they're attached to a 3D package if you want to be able to visualize the board in 3D, but we're not going to get into that here. And then finally, a device is an accumulation of a symbol and a footprint. So the device represents both of those parts working together. So we make…

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