The only way to add to the core parts is to make a submission through Fritzings Part Repo on Github. Unless you are familiar with Github I would suggest for now you should just create your own parts and it will be in your “mine” parts bin for future use. You can also export those parts and upload them here to share with others looking for them.
If you are interested in learning how to submit a part to the core parts please read the following.
I am not sure if everyone here has seen this page yet as I only just found it myself. It explains a lot of things we have questioned on many occasions and would be worth the read for anyone making parts. It was written for manual parts creation like @vanepp does but a lot of what it talks about is also useful for those of us that use the parts editor.
https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app/wiki/2.1-Part-file-format Wiki page
If you do not want to read all of it or you always use the parts editor like I do I would still recommend you at least read the “about SVGs” section and the “more SVG topics” section.
I think (because I’ve always had multiple copies of the C runtimes on my machine and thus never seen the problem) that any recent copy of the runtime libs should work. There are a couple of links back in this thread and even more if you type dll in to the forum search bar.
Peter
Yep, that’s the bible the parts check script is running from (I’ve posted links to it a number of times). If you are making parts it is a useful read.
Peter
That was probably before I started on the forum as I can’t remember seeing before. Although I could have missed it I do try and read most everything I can 
I have to learn how to make one part have multiple pcb layouts first.
At present in general you can’t. The ones that appear to do that in inspector are actually each individual parts with code in the source (which you can sometimes fool to add your parts) that does the selection between the parts.
Peter
Maybe I am not understanding what you are saying but if you open a part in the parts editor and go the metadata tab and make sure each part has the same family name and a different variant name you do get a part with different variants in the inspector under the variant field. Or at least when I have added to an existing family like the ESP8266 it has shown up in the variant field. I also used a test point as the base to create exposed copper artwork and the test point now shows 51 variants, oops (I should give them their own family).
yep I know that, what I meant (but obviously didn’t get across) is that some things such as changing the color bands on resistors are meant to be internal, but if you manipulate the fzp meta data (outside of parts editor which strips the important bits) you can sometimes convince Fritzing to apply the internal magic to your part that isn’t part of core.
Peter
Can anyone tell me what part uses a schematic image (probably a vertical row of them as it is a (probably) double row header connector)? I think it may be an obsolete part as nothing current that I can see uses it.
it is a template file that partsfactory uses to make header connectors that is currently scaled wrong. I need to find a part that uses the template to check and make sure the new template works correctly. I have 6 such files, 2 of them (already fixed) make current .1 (and possibly other size) headers, I need to figure out what uses the other 4 of which this is one.
Peter
My best guess would be a female connector.
Good bet since its full name is
generic_female_10thin_double_pin_header_schem_template.txt
and its cousin
generic_female_10thin_pin_header_schem_template.txt
creates the standard female header we all know and love (now with a proper scale though). According to a comment in the code, “older parts used a .1 grid” (which I thought current parts did as well, but that is apparently what 10thin is for) for which we look to have
generic_female_pin_header_schem_template.txt
which I haven’t gotten to converting yet to see what it looks like
as opposed to the others. All the file names appear in one resource file and seem to get selected by mysterious parameters passed in. Setting a breakpoint found the male and female standard headers (thus their conversion first) but I’m so far stumped on the rest. At the moment I’ll convert them all and hope to find a way to test later.
Peter
Hello,
I designed two boards in two different files. But now I want to put them in a single board. So I want to import one of the boards into the other. How do I do this ? Please help.
Thanks
I knew that…
The only way is to highlight all the parts (ctrl+a) and copy them (ctrl+c) and then in another sketch paste them (ctr+v). The only problem this creates is it only maintains the routing of the view you copy and paste. If you copy and paste the PCB layer it will look exactly as it did but the schematic and breadboard will lose all their routing and be nothing but ratsnests. This is fine if all you are doing is putting them on a single PCB for fabrication but a bit of a pain when you want all the views correct.
Thank you very much @sublimeartistry
I don’t care about the schematic and breadboard as I never use them.
I think it is a future (probably to improve dual row header support). I have discovered to my delight that the linux file viewer renders a thumbnail of the svg if you look at the parts directories and a visual search of the core and obsolete directories doesn’t turn up any instances of this particular svg (it did turn up one of the others I need, in obsolete, to my delight) so I think I can safely just convert this one without breaking anything (and possibly use it to make dual row support work better later).
Peter
Exactly those links I used (f.e. https://www.smartftp.com/support/kb/the-program-cant-start-because-api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0dll-is-missing-f2702.html ) but still no solution to the problem.
OK lets try something different. On my Win 7 pro box in
Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features
I have
…
Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable (x64)-12.0.21005
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x64)-14.0.24215
and I believe it is using one or the other of those (in theory the 2015 one I think). One or the other of these was supposed to be loaded (and was in my case) by Windows Update. There were however problems and many systems didn’t get the update. If you don’t have one or the other of those showing in the programs window, I’d suggest checking if Windows update is running correctly (one of the patches broke it back in November on this system and I had to delete the update directory to make update work again). An easy test for that is open Windows Update from the start menu and try and check for updates. If it says it can’t then you likely have the bad patch and need to fix it to get updates again. You may also try downloading the libraries from Microsoft.
I used “win 7 download the c run time libraries” (because I have Win7) and the first couple of hits are Microsoft who is the official source of the libraries. I believe they vary by Windows version as well so substitute your version of Windows in there (which is why we can say one download fixes all, because it doesn’t). Windows 10 when it first came out had a lot of troubles with this, but I haven’t seen a lot of complaints lately.
Peter
