I can, but you would be better to do a parts update as it is in current core parts and thus you may be missing other things. First way to do a parts update is with Fritzing running click Help->check for updates. If that doesn’t work, then you need to do a manual update via the instructions here:
Peter
This doesn’t give the size of the module. Do you have the url you bought it from? That will likely have dimensions.
Peter
This should do what you want. It has a NRF24L01 attached to the connector but the interface is out the adapter board pins as in real life. There is no pcb view as it isn’t useful.
NRF24L01-BO.fzpz (11.2 KB)
Peter
Dang Peter! I was only expecting a little assistance and you hand over all the work completed!
This was my first attempt to make a part (totally not obvious, I know) so I was working through it the best I could. Like I mentioned, I did take this from a part from a previously built item I found here so some of those errors may have existed. The SMD portion (copper1) I completely missed because I was referencing to directions I found about other components that needed the extra grouping.
I tested the fixed part and it works! However I did find another bug trying to import the fixed part. I kept running into “This part already exists…” attempting to import it. The only work around is to delete the existing part, save the changes to the parts, exit the program completely and restart. Then you can import the new part under the same name. Would be good to see an overwrite option in the future.
One last question, is that python program/script (FritzingCheckPart.py) included with Fritzing? This is my first time designing a part and PCB and modifying SVG via XML, so any extras I can find will help a lot.
Well, doing my due diligence, I checked out the gerber files and the center square is supposed to be a through ‘hole’, but it’s not showing up like one. I’ll see what I can do about making it one and uploading the finished part.
That really is a bug. Fritzing thinks it has deleted the part entirely but hasn’t until you shut down and restart. The good news is that the bug that was causing the path to not render in gerber has been found and fixed (but probably not til the 0.9.7 release.) Does ground fill work correctly with the new part? There is a bug report open on ground fill, but it may have just been the part config that was the issue.
That is harder to do. Fritzing doesn’t really support mixed through hole and SMD parts. It wants one or the other. Usually I put the places for the vias on silkscreen and tell the user they need to manually drag a via in to the sketch and add a pad on the bottom of the board to achieve this.
Peter
Ground fill works great now, much appreciated! Definitely related to the part config.
I see what you mean about one or the other. I’m looking at other parts that have those through holes and testing some other things. I’ll report back if I have any success.
You can do it, but then you need to put a circle in all the pads so that there is a through hole connection as well . If copper1 and copper0 are both present Fritzing assumes there is a through hole connection and will try and connect on either layer which usually doesn’t work on SMD parts and won’t work if there isn’t a circle to cause a hole to be created.
Peter
I just ran headlong into this bug today in version 0.9.6. Unfortunately I used this duplicate/rename technique for a few hours. And now the breadboard and pcb are all messed up. I’ve gotta try to delete every label that was created as a duplicate and then renamed which isn’t easy to figure out.
Is there any way to know if I’ve got them all by looking at details or something?
And is there a ticket for fixing this? This thread is from 2016.
Thanks,
bob
Yes there is an open trouble ticket on this issue
no timeline on a fix yet though. There are some suggestions on a work around in the ticket which may help you (copying to the clip board does something at a fast read.) The reason this has been around since 2017 (the date of the pr) is that development stopped in 2016 and only restarted in 2019. There are still few resources and a large amount of work (much of it invisible to the general users), the web site and forum had basically no maintenance for 4 years or more years, and an entirely new build chain had to be built as the previous one was gone. That took a lot of time with the available resources. There were also legal problems that needed to be resolved which only happened early this year. As of now bugs are being worked on, but no one left is all that familiar with the code, and it is very complex (and pretty much completely undocumented!) There is a mechanism to vote to prioritize the PR on github (although I don’t know the details), so you may want to vote for this one.
Peter
Thank @vanepp for the background and the ticket reference. I did comment on the ticket. As for development and backlogs, I’d be happy to contribute where I can. I’m a very experienced C/C++ developer. I actually gave a shot at doing a build of Fritzing on my Mac M1 as I wanted to get a native build and contribute back, but I ran into a host of issues trying to build the prerequisite libraries. After several hours I threw up my hands. If someone could help me get over the hump, I’d be game. My plan at the moment was to wait for a bit to let some of the underlying libraries to be fully ready to go on M1 chips and then give another run at it. If there’s any advice you’d give on the build, lemme know.
Thanks,
bob
There are build instructions for Windows in this thread
that may help. Linux is relatively easy, Windows much harder, and Mac I have never tried ( a number of folks have tried and not succeeded though.)
Peter
Thanks for your part.I try make pcb color black,but in fritzing it is look green?
NRF24L01-BOv2.0.fzpz (76.4 KB)İt is amazing! thank you very much
pcb view isn’t a problem for me I use only breadboard view
Also jetzt muss ich hier doch mal nachfragen. Ich wollte mir gerade die aktuelle Version runter laden, aber irgend wie geht das gar nicht zu downloaden. Ich soll immer wieder für den Download zahlen. Frage: Was mache ich falsch? Ich habe mir schon irgend welche anderen Version aus dem Netz installiert, aber das sind alles noch viel ältere Versionen als 0.9.6. Ich hatte glaube ich 0.9.4 installiert und da hat er auch angezeigt, dass ich mit der aktuellsten Version arbeite was ja definitiv nicht so ist…
hi at all,
I’ve following problem: I tried to set a picture/logo on the surface of the pcp. I’ve used the “silkscreen image” tool in the core parts. I changed the picture file but I only get vertical stripes. I already tried zu reduce my picture size or file type - but it don’t work.
Did anyone have an solution or have/had the same problem?
Best regards
Christian
Moin, Moin and greetings from Hamburg,
I’m looking for the component MCP2515 CAN bus module from AZ-Delivery (https://www.az-delivery.de/products/mcp2515-can-bus-modul). Unfortunately, I can’t find the part for import into Fritzing anywhere. Is anyone able to help me?
