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Looking for SMA Connector part
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Fritzing file ruined
Thank you for the reply and to offer a solution. It is pity that Fritzing isn’t developed since it is a great for us hobbyists and also the unofficial standard to make illustrations in different maker communities. Anyway, I have respect that people do the work mostly also are hobbyists and sometimes life changes and there isn’t any time for development.
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Make Parts And Place them in Fritzing
I would like to say It is very flustering to try to make a PCB , And you find that the simplest and most used parts or not in Fritzing , Here are a few I could use a 18650 battery ,. A TP4056 Battery charging module made and placed in there too . the LM 317 And the IRF540 /570 voltage regulator .
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Looking for SMA Connector part
Yep, that does the trick. You are lucky to find a drawing, often I have to resort to the vernier calipers and actually measure a part if I can’t find a drawing (which is all to common with the ebay et.al. modules 
.) Below is a new part with the spacing in the drawing. The holes are .042in to have a little extra room for the pins (they should be .039 in, but the standard drill size is .038 which may be a little tight. I also modified breadboard to be RA rather than up right as on the original and changed schematic to a more sensible pin layout (at least IMHO) and added the RA barrel to the silkscreen (which will likely get truncated by the edge of the board in most cases) so you can see where not to put other components.
SMA Antenna Connector RA 6mm pin spacing.fzpz (6.1 KB)
As always print out the pcb footprint and check it against a real part to check it is correct before ordering boards.
Peter
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Make Parts And Place them in Fritzing
You just have to do a little work (and/or learn to make parts which is a lot harder). A google search for “fritzing part 18650 battery” Turns up a couple of cases (I remember helping someone with one some time back). There looks to be an 18650 battery in the adafruit library (which isn’t loaded by default in to Fritzing, but there are instructions on their site on how to load it as I recall). Same with the TP4056 charging module, there is one in someone’s github repo. The LM317 can be made by changing the name of a 7805 (the cases are the same) the IRF540 and IRF570 are standard TO220 mosfets so the basic mosfet in core parts (the through hole version) will do for them. If a part you download from somewhere doesn’t do what you need post here and one of us may fix it up for you.
Peter
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Fritzing file ruined
While this is a known bug (at least on Unix, I’ve never seen it on Windows) as far as I know we don’t know how to make it happen (which would be needed to find a fix). The best workaround is to copy the user directories as a backup on a regular basis.
On linux (and probably the Mac too I expect) these are:
~/Documents/Fritzing/parts
~/.config/Fritzing
On Windows they are in
c:\users\username\AppData\Fritzing\roaming\Fritzing (which is a hidden directory so you need to enable hidden directories in explorer) and
c:\Users\username\My Documents\Fritzing (where username is your windows id)
It is possible to corrupt one or both of these (usually by interrupting a parts update) and
they sometimes need to be deleted. Copying them to a backup copy allows you to
move them back in to the original place and carry on, so having a backup copy is good insurance.
Peter
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Looking for SMA Connector part
Thank Peter. It seems work for me. It looks ok on print out.
Somsak
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Make Parts And Place them in Fritzing
No EDA is ever going to have every part invented, so the FZ crew came up with generic parts that you just type the specific part# in it’s Inspector box.
I was playing with the massive KiCad5 and it didn’t have as good an Arduino library as the tiny FZ library.
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Is Fritzing dead? No updates since June 2016
Is Fritzing dead? No updates since June 2016.
Today it is the 16th of October 2018.
But it is free, so I can’t ask for my money back…
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Is Fritzing dead? No updates since June 2016
It is certainly dying, although you can help out if you are willing to invest time. Some of the original developers are working on a javascript version of Fritzing and I’m slowly making progress on the doing some bug fixes on the current version. At present that involves changing some of the parts that use tspan in core as that currently breaks Qt (I think it is a bug in Qt, but fixing the parts is easier than trying to fix Qt. At present I can’t even build the current release on the version of Qt (5.6) that was used as it hits the same error. That is currently blocking doing anything about the fact that libgit2 is too old and is breaking parts update on Windows (at least Win7, possibly not Win10).
Peter
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Is Fritzing dead? No updates since June 2016
Hi Peter,
I wish I could help. I actually would have loved to help. If my connection to my subconsious was stronger. Doing so much work in the conscious mind makes us overloaded if not having an huge passion that flows energy from the subconscious. Just a little warm-up…
Now you caught me on another issue. Qt!
I have read a lot about Qt, it looks great, so does the license…for Qt. So when you mentioned Qt, I was wondering, is someone paying the monthly USD400 something for licensing. I guess not, and the open source version is used. Is that so, if I may ask?
Reason asking is because I have tried, not really tried, not even got started on a B4A licence for Android, and the development software is evolving faster than their documentation, so it seems hard to begin with.
Have you heard of B4A, or B4X?
I mean, if using Qt to develop Fritzing on a open source licence, is that why it stopped…? The open source version hit the wall of the free version of Qt?
I hope I am not confusing the matter too much now. Qt compiles to Desktops, mobiles etc.
B4A, B4X was originally starting as mobile development.
I really curious about the Qt concept once have started and has come as far as Fritzing have, is one forced eventually to enter the licensing concept at a ridiculous price, to be able to continue developing?
Hex
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Is Fritzing dead? No updates since June 2016
I think the reason it is dead is because the creator no longer had time for it and gave up control to a non-profit that ironically wants for money before they will do any more work. The site has a copyright notice of 2010 and the writing implies it hasn’t been updated since then.
http://friends.fritzing.org/
You can see they have a goal of 40k euro to get Fritzing to a first release and they are only at 6k. I think this money is supposed to be generated through donations and profits from getting boards made through Aisler. But unfortunately they charge way to much at 44x the price I currently pay and no choice in thickness or color so they do not get enough business.
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Is Fritzing dead? No updates since June 2016
Yes Fritzing is using the open source version of Qt (so no monthly fees). Qt isn’t directly the problem, there are currently issues (which may be Fritzing’s) with tspans but they are fixable with time. Most of the problem (at least for me) is there is no one with experience in the code base that communicates any more. That means you are reading the source to figure out how things work. It has taken most of a year for me to get a working Windows development environment together because libgit2 didn’t want to compile correctly (it doesn’t help that I normally don’t do development on Windows either). I intend on publishing how to do this to try and encourage more support, but haven’t gotten around to it yet. At this point as I said I think the way forward i(if there is one) s likely the javascript version that is being developed. I know nothing about javascript and thus can’t help much in that. I can probably help in cleaning up the parts database which is one thing they need (and which is of use to both the current project and the new one). As I said I also hope to get far enough to be able to fix some of the bugs in the current version (I have some already but as noted have only recently got a build environment on Windows working) even if that means you have to build from source to get the fixes.
Peter
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Downloading & installing Fritzing on Ubuntu Linux problem
I am running a new Linux Version 18.04.1LTS
Tried installing Fritzing several times but still not successful.
Can anyone assist me with this?
Thanks
Syd
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Downloading & installing Fritzing on Ubuntu Linux problem
What kind of problems? I just untarred the distribution file and ran Fritzing.exe on 18.04 without issues. If you have installed, and started then aborted a parts update you may need to clear the user directories (assuming you have no sketches or custom parts loaded this will do the trick):
rm -r ~/Documents/Fritzing/parts
rm -r ~/.config/Fritzing
if you have sketches you want to keep rename the directories instead
mv ~/Documents/Fritzing/parts ~/Documents/Fritzing/parts_cur
mv ~/.config/Fritzing ~/.config/Fritzing_cur
when Fritizing is run again it will create new directories (and probably do a parts update which you need to let complete before stopping Fritzing to avoid corrupting the database.)
Peter
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Fritzing Installation Problem on Linux
What i always do (Linux mint) download the tar and install midnight commander (apt-get install mc). Unpack the tar in your download map.
Open mc with sudo (sudo mc) in a terminal. Copy the extracted map (i rename it to fritzing) to /opt/fritzing
All you have to do is run install.sh in the /opt/fritzing map
In the menu editor browse to the fritzing executable and you can pic an icon from the icons map too.
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Fritzing Installation Problem on Linux
I removed Fritzing, rebooted the computer & re-Installed a fresh version of Fritzing from the web again.
When attempting to run Fritzing I still receive notifications similar to this:
" The part 'e-paper eval board at ‘/home/syd/downloads /Fritzing/ fritzing-parts/core/10x2-Epaper-Breakout-Board-v11-fzp’ does not have a unique module id ‘10x2-Epaper-Breakout-board-vqq’
Hitting ok or delete just displays the next part with the same message.
This repeats every time the same message and a different part.
Can someone please advise what I need to do to remove this corrupted program and all the Parts from my computer & re-install a fresh version with all the parts.
Thanks
Syd
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Fritzing Installation Problem on Linux
If i remember correctly Fritzing saves temporary files in ~/.local
Have a look there for a fritzing folder and delete that one.
If it’s not ~/.local have a look at ~/.config 
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4 Way Traffic light Circuit
I have Assembled this circuit several time on a Breadboard and I can Not get it to work Correctly ,
If I am understanding the schematic Correctly this is how it is Supposed to be Assembled .
Please looking at the Screen shot and let me know Why it is not working . thanks
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4 Way Traffic light Circuit
Maybe upload the .fzz sketch with the 7th button in the reply toolbar, because there are lines that overlap, ie green yellow, orange junction, where you can’t see what was intended.
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