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FIGURE 11-1 Creating a new library.

This will open a new untitled Library Editor window. The first thing you should do is save this
using the Save command from the File menu with the Library Editor as the current window. You will
be prompted for the name of a file. Call it

Copying a Device from Another Library

Later we will look at building a device (part) from scratch, but to start with, we will copy an existing
part from another library into our new library. Later we will edit this device.
Copying a part is not quite as simple as selecting a part, doing Copy, moving to the library where
you want to have a copy of it, and doing Paste. Instead, EAGLE has the concept of a current library.

Because we have just created a new library, this will be the current library. To copy the part into the
current library (“MyParts”), we first need to go and find the part that we want to copy in the
“Libraries” section of the Control Panel.

The first part we are going to copy is the LED display module that we used back in Chapter 8.
You may remember that this had some mislabeled pins. You will find this part in the Sparkfun
“Displays” library, where it is called 7-SEGMENT-4DIGIT-YOUNGSUN. Right-click on it, and
select the option “Copy to Library” (Figure 11-2).