Yes please send it to me.
Tnx
Sydcee
After not having much success with re-installing Fritzing I asked my son
for help.
He had recently uninstalled Windows & installed Ubuntu Linux on my computer
and I am still not used to the Linux operating system.
He had it all fixed in a few minutes by using some apt-get commands.
I have now used Fritzing and re-created my PCB circuit layout quite easily.
I have run a Circuit check with no errors in the PCB.
I am printing it out using a Brother HL2270 DW laser printer on plain paper
to test the quality, but my printout is not dark enough.
I will be using the iron-on method for making the board.
There seem to be a few different printing options for printouts in Fritzing.
I presume “Export as an Etchable PDF” should be used for etching and this
gave me what appeared to be good except not dark enough.
Doing test prints however using the different options available eg.
export as a PDF, JPG, PDF, Export for Production I notice that in the full
A4 page printouts that here are some that show tracks not meeting the
circle of the component despite the No Errors Circuit check.
I await your valuable comments.
Thanks
Regards
Syd
I use the ‘Export for Production as an Etchable PDF’ method.
If you have a long line of continuous holes like a header, you might have to scale it a touch to get the dimensions perfect, so do a test print.
When I used thin white gift wrapping paper I printed at the std darkness, because when you iron it it squashes out the tracks wider than they are supposed to be. Now I use the yellow wax paper from eBay and that needs to be set at the printers darkest.
I also put a via with a 0.5mm hole on every connection, because after tinning it provides a good drill guide to centre holes - the 0.8-1mm holes allow the drill to not find the centre -.
https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c51d/m5cyc1l67dhkw576g.jpg
On this board I’m going to sand the gloss off the top, for adhesion, and toner transfer the silkscreen as a part guide.
Also don’t use cheap eBay PCB because the copper tracks seam to fall off easily after etching.
The “Export as an Etchable pdf” produces about 10 different pdf’s. Is this correct?
All the Exports for Production produce everything needed to fully make the board, just in different formats.
Problem #1
After having lost my simple circuit design i have now redone it from start.
I exported it as a JPG and printed it out using my Brother HL-2270DW printer on plain paper.
As the density of the Black print was not good enough I suspected a problem with my printer and/or laser-cartridge, so I checked the print quality using my wordprocessor and printed a document and it was 100%. The print was perfect and dark confirming that the problem was with my Fritzing settings.
Problem #2
Attached is an enlarged printout of my circuit
The problem that I have at the moment is that my pcb exported for PCB as an Etchable JPG for production and make a test print on Plain Paper it’s not dark enough.
The fault is not with my printer or Laser cartridge as all other documents print out very dark.
How do I get Fritzing to print out darker?
My PCB is saved on my computer but I do not know how to include it in tis e-mail
FlySparkV2 15 Aug 2016_etch_copper_bottom_etch_copper_bottom.pdf
I am an old (70+ years) & have not done any electronics for the last 20 years.
Now a newbie struggling with both Ubuntu Linux and Fritzing. and assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for any assistance.
Syd
Sorry man, I know how hard it is to get into this because I only started electronics 10 months ago, and I know how hard Linux is because I did a course decades ago - I gave up on Linux because I just wanted to use the PC, not build it every time I want to use it -.
The first thing I think is a problem is the jpg. FZ doesn’t have a ‘for Production’ jpg, only the higher quality pdf and svg.
Go File/Export/for Production/Etchable PDF. Assign a folder, and save the export there. Now print from the PDF and set printer to darkest in it’s settings.
I use the free PDFXCHANGE Viewer, because you kind-off need the advanced features to scale the print so it’s dimensionally accurate, plus other stuff.
Hello,
I have downloaded the last version ‘fritzing-0.9.3b.linux.AMD64.tar.bz2’ and I installed with Synaptic Package Manager, but when I start fritzing again the last version 9.2.
Does anybody know what is happening?
Thanks
Synaptic is probably probably using 9.2, not the 9.3b. If you downloaded the tarball, Synaptic would not be used to install it. You have to untar the tarball, use the install file in the new directory, and run Fritzing from that directory as well.
I’m use the file manager to do all of the extracting and installing. I can walk you thru it if you want?
I’d remove what you’ve installed from synaptic. In terminal run
sudo apt-get remove fritzing
Then extract that tarball. Go to download folder, then extract, change folder, then run.
cd ~/Downloads
tar -xzf fritzing-0.9.3b.linux.AMD64.tar.bz2
cd fritzing-0.9.3b.linux.AMD64
./Fritzing
That should start version 0.9.3b
Hi there, I am new in this forum.
welcome to the forum.
How can I reverse this? want to take it off and then re-install it to try and correct resolution or screen size.
With the caution that you want to be vary sure you are in the correct directory (because this could erase your entire system if done incorrectly, so make sure you have a backup!):
cd ~/Downloads/fritzing-0.9.3b.linux.AMD64
(or the directory where you run Fritzing from)
(optional but wise)
ls
(to make sure you are in the Fritzing directory where you think you are)
rm -r *
(this is the dangerous part as it will erase everything below this). That will remove all the Fritzing code and a new tar will do a new install.
Thanks for the help. Worked.
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
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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Thanks!
It work perfectly on UBUNTU18.04
Ludmil