I haven’t seen the second one before, but I’m pretty sure I have done the first one somewhere in here. As I have said before it is a good bet to do a google search for the part first to be sure you aren’t reinventing the wheel (as that wastes effort). If you are correcting a problem thats fine though. As usual nice looking parts.
Peter
“You right click on any connection you want to be part of your ground plane and select it as a ground seed.”
In this sentence is sitting the problem !! First I could not select “select it as ground seed” because I made the mistake to first select it and then try to set it as a ground seed. You simply have to hoover over the part and the moment you notice that it changes into “black” , THEN right click on it and select “set ground fill seed”, otherwise “set ground fill seed” is “greyed out” and you cannot select it.
Now indeed I can, as you wrote any pad/net I want, as ground connection.
Yeah the difference is you need to be clicking the connection not the part outline. For small parts like the via it can be hard to get it to select the connection and not the part outline. Glad you got it working.
Is there a tutorial on how to setup property menus in the new FZ please?
It says in this email that there is no need to hack the fpz file. I can’t find another mechanism in the UI. Obviously I’m not searching the tutorial using the correct magic keyword.
I found this in an existing part’s fpz:
<property name=“Maximum Resistance” showInLabel=“yes”>10kΩ</property>
If I move a standard resistor to my own user area, then the “Resistance” menu stops working. I am assuming that there is some path I need to fix up?
Are you talking about parts .fzpz.
When you save a part to MINE bin it losses some of it’s general properties, and becomes a specific part
Like so many things, no 
. There is passed down lore (and reading the source) that sometimes helps.
I believe the statement was you shouldn’t have to hack rhe fzp file, but in practice that isn’t the case usually.
Not a path, you may be able to change some fields in the fzp file of your part to convince the code that your new part is part of core (you can’t do this via parts editor, it won’t let you). It usually depends on moduleId and family and doesn’t always work (such as my breadboard hack I did for someone a couple of weeks back, it mostly works, except selection in Inspector). The code has special tests for some functions in inspector (such as changing the resistance value) which is why it doesn’t work in the general case. If you post the part you want to change the resistance of (7th icon from the left in the reply menu) I’ll have a look at it and see if I can make it work with inspector. Assuming I can modify it I’ll tell you how I did it.
Peter
Thanks for taking the time to answer.
Most kind of you to offer to help. It’s not worth bothering you. I was just trying to dig into all the corners as I’m learning about FZ.
I can see that folks have spent time trying to create tutorials, and I can understand how hard it must be to explain all the edge case.
What I’m really hoping is to be able to start development up so we can eliminate some of the edge cases, but so far that is proving difficult and I’m about the only one even trying. The interfaces to inspector I think should be public and not require code changes to work. Obviously that wasn’t the original plan, or (like so much else) it didn’t get finished before funding ran out.
Of the tutorials around, only these two refer to the 0.0.3b version, most of the rest are for earlier versions and sometimes don’t reflect current reality.
Peter
Interesting… This project is a good candidate for not needing a pcb, I think. So , after I practice & create one that works I will learn to edit that part out of the fritzing fzp file.
The Sony ext board in here has pcb eliminated as it isn’t useful. Basically I was lazy and just removed all the references to the pcb layers. You can also use the inhibit keyword in the fzp file to do the same thing leaving the pcb intact if you may want to change your mind later.
Peter
"Mil" is stands for “Milli inches” or “Thousandth of inch”…
So, meter & inches both are available…!!
(For me it was confusing with Mil in “pin spacing” selection… I prefer mm, that’s not available.
So, for 2.54mm pitch, I calculate this way, 200mil is for 2 step ahead from first pin, 300mil is 3 step ahead… etc…)
You’re not alone. I’m new to Ftitzing, but it seems like the platform is seriously buggy. Once I start the app, I will use it for approximately 40 seconds after which it completely crashes.
My laptop specs are:
i5-8300H
Nvidia 1050ti
256gb ssd
8gb ram.
Who has a solution to this problem? Please help us out. Thank you.
Yes, the holes are okay, they are 1mm…
But, about thickness, it’s maybe good for high voltage, I was just worried about the 48mm copper trace between legs gets close…
Anyway, what I checked that, in the datasheet of W series bridge rectifier (w04, w10), the Spacing between legs is 5.6mm.
Here, in this pcb, the spacing is 5.08mm…
I don’t know, maybe my mistake…
I’m about to order some of them, and designing PCB for project, so I’m just curious…
Fritzing has bugs, but not that one. On Windows7 pro as long as I don’t load bad parts Fritzing will run fine all day and does not crash. The last crash I had was due to a part with incorrect internal settings a couple of days ago, that was my first crash in months. There would appear to be something wrong with your installation. You don’t mention which OS (and that matters for where to clear the user directories) so I’ll for now assume windows.
There are two user directories (with your parts and the parts database) which don’t get touched during an install (to not affect your sketchs during upgrades). 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)
If you don’t have any parts or sketches you want to keep you can just delete those two directories and Fritzing will receate them, or you can move them aside by renaming them if you wan to keep something in them.
Once you have done this delete and reinstall Fritzing from the zip file available from Fritzing.org. Note that at present automatic parts update on Windows is broken so you manually need to update the parts database, but I’d start by doing the reinstall and seeing if that fixes your stability issues.
edit:
It just occurred to me that you may in fact be seeing a parts update (which appears to hang until it completes). Assuming you aren’t getting something like "program has stopped responding (and maybe even then ), try waiting for up to 15 minutes (I’ve never had one longer than a couple of minutes but long times have been reported) and see if you eventually get a parts update notification. The first thing Fritzing does on startup is check the github parts repository for updates. If you interrupt it before it completes that usually corrupts the database and you need to clear the user files as listed above.
Peter
Perhaps the W series isn’t what this part describes? I don’t see a part number in the part, and it specifies 200 mil spacing which would be 5.08 mm. You could clone this part and change the spacing for the W series.
Peter
Oh Yes, 200mil…
I’m just done with my new svg for it…
The only time I get a crash is when I’m in the part editor and there are lots of other sketches open. Even then it’s not that often.
Peter, thanks for reviewing the parts.
I have fixed the reported issues and hope that they are ok now.
Robert
Odds are what you are experiencing is when it checks for updates and parts. It will become unresponsive and give no feedback. If you try and do something your system will think it has crashed and ask if you want to force it closed. If you force it closed you will corrupt the database. Once it is corrupted you will have to clear the hidden user directory and start over. Once you have cleared the directory and tried starting Fritzing again you need to wait until it becomes responsive again and NEVER force it closed even if it unresponsive for a very very long time.
EDIT: it turns out that Peter edited his answer and added the same info but I didn’t see it until after I wrote mine.
Unfortunately Inkscape has bitten you.
Error 65: File
‘svg.pcb.bridge_rectifier_round_200mil_d4b37b7d708ee9291c0aa1b4b3048108_3_pcb.svg.bak’
At line 11
Connector connector0pin is an ellipse not a circle, (gerber generation will break.)
Error 74: File
‘svg.pcb.bridge_rectifier_round_200mil_d4b37b7d708ee9291c0aa1b4b3048108_3_pcb.svg.bak’
At line 11
Connector connector0pin has no radius no hole will be generated
(repeats for connectors 1 - 3)
in XML editor:
id connector0pin
rx 35
ry 35.000004
rather than the correct
r 35
The result is that the gerber generator won’t generate a hole for the pad. This is round off error in floating point calculations in Inkscape (or which ever svg editor you are using). The easy fix is to use xml editor to set both rx and ry to 35 at which point it will revert to a r 35 and gerber generation will be happy.
Edit:
As well you need to do an
edit->select all
then
file ->document properties->custom size-> resize page to content
then
Resize page to drawing or selection
to adjust the viewbox to the drawing dimensions (it is also complaining about incorrect scale currently, although scale is set correctly). Because the offset is positive nothing bad happens, if the offest were negative, the edges of the drawing outside the view box would be truncated in Fritzing.
Peter