Electronic – Eagle PCB design Libraries

You can just copy a package from another library into your own library and edit it. Are you asking how to copy between libraries?

1. Open your own library (the one you want to copy to).
2. Then bring the Control Panel window to the front (leaving your library open in the background).
3. In the list to the left, expand Libraries and expand the name of the library you want to copy from.
4. Locate the package or footprint you want to copy, right click it, and select Copy to Library.
5. Bring the window with your own library to the front, locate the newly copied package and edit it.

Generally if you can't find the part, you'd have to make it yourself. There are many tutorials explaining how to make a part in Eagle.

You are correct in discerning between the three categories for an Eagle part.

Schematic symbol: This is the representation of your part as it will appear in the schematic. It doesn't have to have all the pins represented exclusively, like say if there are multiple GND pins.

Footprint/package: This is what the devices physically looks like and how it will appear on your circuit board. Each solderable pin must be represented here. You need this so you can actually place the part on your PCB.

Device: This is the middle ground between the two, while you never place a device, it is how the schematic symbol will connect to the foot print in the software. You need this because a connection made in a schematic represents a physical connection on the circuit board. If you connect a signal to a pin of a symbol in the schematic editor, the software needs to know to make the same connection on the circuit board.

You'll notice, after you've made a schematic that has connections, that when you start to design your circuit board, you'll see many yellow lines, these are called "air wires" and are un-routed representations of the signals created in the schematic. In the PCB editor, you are just making the connections you made in the schematic editor a physical track that will be on your circuit board when you have it fabricated.

For this part specifically, I know this has been made and released since I use it all the time and I didn't make my own. Sparkfun releases many of the parts used in their products in the form of the footprint and schematic symbol. It seems like they have a DIL28 connector in their connections library. You can download them from the linked github page.

As for more Eagle library resources:

• Adafruit also releases their eagle parts as well, although I'm not sure if they have an RJ11 connector.
• I have published and maintain my own as well, although I take great care to make sure they are correct, they are still unverified so take them w/ a grain of salt.