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Remove parts pin numbers?

April 29, 2017, 10:51 am
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I suspect there is something wrong with your network connection if downloads are taking that long (it may also be a problem with your network provider and/or their path to the Fritzing site). On a slowish (1 megabit) ADSL line here in Canada it just said the download would take 8 minutes. While I too am not a Mac user, there have been some problems with github on some of the older Macs blocking parts updates, but that doesn't seem to be the problem here. It sort of sounds like a permissions problem (from the "Can't read resistor.svg" message), are you perhaps using a different user ID than the one that Fritzing was installed under? Can you display the ownership and permissions (I don't know how to do that with the gui on a Mac but ls -l from a command prompt will display the ownership and permissions of files) on the original file and then on the file that you replace? That should provide a clue to the problem I expect. Windows is even better as both Steelgoose and I are Windows types.

Peter

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Remove parts pin numbers?

April 29, 2017, 11:04 am
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I thought maybe it might be that the resistor.svg was still open in the text editor... But I have never had that problem unless it is a Mac thing...

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Remove parts pin numbers?

April 29, 2017, 11:46 am
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This may be the problem. I downloaded it on my Win 7 machine and it also took 58 minutes.
I then tried another download, different program, and it worked normally.

Anyhow,,, Fritzing works very good on my Mac, I like it, and I'm gonna keep it just like it is. Those little gray pin numbers don't bother me at all.

Thanks to everyone who helped...
Don

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Remove parts pin numbers?

April 29, 2017, 11:50 am
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You could always make the little pin numbers white and they wouldn't show up... :relaxed:

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Wifi farm gate controller

April 29, 2017, 12:50 pm
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It was on the news this morning that today, Amazon is moving their 17 aircraft from Wilmington (20 miles North of me) to the CVG Hub (30 miles South of me)... and they plan to operate 100 aircraft out of their CVG Hub... :relaxed:

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New Parts Bin Icon

April 29, 2017, 4:49 pm
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thank you for this its simple thing but its easy to over look

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New Parts Bin Icon

April 29, 2017, 4:56 pm
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Everything has a learning curve... :relaxed:

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SPST D31A Relay

April 30, 2017, 2:39 pm
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This is a replacement for the D31A relay core part. This version uses schematic subparts to allow moving the switch and shield away from the coil.
SPST-D31A-Relay.fzpz (6.1 KB)

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941 series relay

April 30, 2017, 2:45 pm
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A 941 series DPDT relay that uses schematic subparts so the coil and each of the switches can be moved around separately.

DPDT-941-Relay.fzpz (4.8 KB)

Created this for the relay experiment of the ARDX kit.

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2 pin header part

April 30, 2017, 2:48 pm
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No schematic or pcb rats nest lines for adapter part

April 30, 2017, 3:17 pm
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I am having trouble getting what I thought was a simple part to work correctly. What I want is a header / adapter that fits into a breadboard (standard DIP layout), and allows a 2xN header to be plugged in to it. The initial use is to allow an NRF24L01 radio module to be easily added to the breadboard view of a Fritzing sketch. I built the physical adapter from a pair of long leg 10 pin headers. Same thing that would be used to create an Arduino shield. Now I am trying to create a Fritzing part to match. It is supposed to be a series of female connections, like a breadboard uses, adjacent (0.1 inch) to male pins. Like a breadboard, no schematic view should be needed. For the initial part, I was not going to create a pcb view either, though that will turn into a simple 2 row set of pads to match the header layout.

The current breadboard view looks good, and even seems to work. Placing the adapter part on a breadboard, then adding another part to one of the female connections snaps into place nicely. Click/holding on one of the breadboard pins in that row highlights the end connection for the added parts, so it LOOKS like it is connected. Putting a jumper wire across the pair of female connectors highlights the opposite row when one side is click/held.

However, adding another part to the breadboard row does NOT create a rats nest line on the schematic or pcb view. For more fun, move the part away from the adapter in the breadboard view, create a connection on the schematic view, then move the part back to the adapter on the breadboard view. That gets rid of the rats nest line on the breadboard view.

2-pin-header.fzpz (2.5 KB)

header-test.fzz (33.2 KB)

What am I missing here?

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No schematic or pcb rats nest lines for adapter part

April 30, 2017, 5:35 pm
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Is what you are trying to do here similar to this (from the description, I think so but I'm not sure)?

If so your connections in the fpz file are incorrect in that they are male and you will need two connectors (one male presumably on the adapter) and one female to plug it in to as in the test sketch in this thread (you should also have schematic so that the connection will show up there). At present you part is a standard 2 pin connector without schematic which is likely why the rats nests don't work. There are also a number of limitations related to this (layers being one, alignment being another) but it does seem to work.

Peter

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No schematic or pcb rats nest lines for adapter part

April 30, 2017, 6:51 pm
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The jack in that looks like it has the functionality I am trying for. I'll see if I can massage it into the form I want. After that, see if I can get rid of the schematic view. Because of the switch in the jack, yours actually needs a minimal schematic view, though it could be simplified to a SPST switch.

In mine, it is all just wire (bus) connections, so (like breadboard) it does not really need a schematic view. At least not IF the bus connections feed through to create the needed rats nest wires when something is connected. Which is where the problem started. Functionally, I could create a schematic view, but it would not actually mean anything. Forcing schematic wires to route through a block is not nice. Since this needs bus connections, could not even use subparts to break up the block.

I'll post (in a bit) another version with an icon that will better show the mechanical layout intended. Gone exploring.

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555 IC Will not align with pins in center of Breadboard

April 30, 2017, 7:54 pm
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Help!

I just downloaded the latest version 0.9.3, for my MacBook Pro, and I can't get a 555 IC to align with the
center pins of my breadboard. I first created a simple schematic of an LED flasher using this IC.

I also tried a new project and started with the breadboard first and tried adding a 555 IC and still couldn't
get it to align with the center pins. I'm selecting a dil-8 packaging.

So, I can't progress if I can't get a simple IC to align. Can anybody help?

Thanks,
Gary

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No schematic or pcb rats nest lines for adapter part

April 30, 2017, 8:40 pm
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Assuming your intent is to have a daughter board mount on a CPU board, I'm not sure you wouldn't be better to just make a breadboard part with the daughter board in place and not bother with trying to make it connect. I'd then have two blocks in schematic (one for the daughter board one for the cpu board) with preconnected wires between the two blocks. The plugable in version is a lot of work for not much gain (being able to plug in a wall wart in bb as in real life struck me as possibly useful though).

Peter

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555 IC Will not align with pins in center of Breadboard

April 30, 2017, 8:47 pm
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While I'm on Windows rather than a Mac, are you using the 555 from core parts? If I do that on win it aligns fine. Note sometimes (due to a fritzing bug I think) you have to move the part before it will snap to the grid correctly so you might try that. As well in the view menu make sure "align to grid" is set and grid size is .1 (I think they should both be default but perhaps not, or perhaps they have been changed). If none of that works post the fzz file of your sketch here and one of us will take a look at it and see if we can see the problem.

Peter

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555 IC Will not align with pins in center of Breadboard

April 30, 2017, 9:40 pm
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Peter,

Thanks for your quick response.

I'm doing a search for the 555 and using one with a dil-08 type.
Should I use one from the "Core" components?

My grid size is defaulting to 0.1 . I changed it to 0.07 and it worked!
Maybe it's suppose to work with a 0.1 setting but I'll take the 0.07 as long as it will
let me move forward in the learning curve!

Thanks,

Gary

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No schematic or pcb rats nest lines for adapter part

April 30, 2017, 10:12 pm
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It is not for a daughter board to cpu. Is is an adapter to connect a radio board (module) that has a 2x6 male header on to a breadboard. On a PCB, that is just a 2x6 set of 0.1 inch spacing THT pads. It needs more than direct connection to the Arduino board, because it needs 3.3 volts, and the Arduino does not supply enough current. But to hook it (by it self) to a breadboard needs 12 wires. 2 cables (0.1in space headers each end) of 6 wires each works, but that is messy both physical and in the Fritzing breadboard view. I took 2 male/female headers, bent the legs out sideways then back down again. Those then sit nicely on the inner columns, across the centre divider of the breadboard, allowing the 2x6 male header to plug in. Nice and neat physically for (software) development and testing.

Creating a custom breadboard with 2 extra pins where the centre divide usually goes would work. There is no specific size of breadboard though, and no fixed position for it to go. This is aimed at people learning Arduino to external hardware interfacing. See the ARDX (Arduino Experimenters) Kit information for context. I am adding some extensions to the existing projects / experiments, and want to keep it flexible for people to play with.

Another thing that would work, is creating the part for the radio module with the adapter 'built-in'. That would then need doing separately for every else that had a 2xX maie header. I'm a programmer, and believe in DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself). A separate adapter is so much cleaner and more flexible.

Here is a version of the in progress part, with a 3D ish icon to show the piece layout.

2-by-x-header2breadboard.fzpz (2.9 KB)

I'm also exploring Fritzing part creation, and this looked like it should be simple, but use a few features I had not tried yet. The part files have all been created using an xml aware text editor, not the Parts Editor and/or Inkscape/Illustrator.

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How to create jumping wire using fritzing tool

April 30, 2017, 11:27 pm
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Generic resistor with 100mil footprint also in breadboard view

May 1, 2017, 7:25 am
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A resistor is a two-terminal electrical component which implements electrical resistance as a circuit element and in electronic circuits, resistors are used to reduce current flow, adjust signal levels and to divide voltages also terminate transmission lines, among other uses.

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