Fritzing Standards for good design
Hello Fritzing community,
I have been using the Fritzing on past university project (very few) and forgot about this software for some months, but now, while doing some stuff for my final project of my engineering career, I had to make some new parts in order to fit my needs.
I wasnât used to work with Inkscape or Illustrator for svg design since I am not a graphic designer but have done good aesthetic / working Fritzing parts as you can check on these forum (in just 2 weeks approx.)
As you saw on those discussions, I struggled to make things work on Fritzing but thanks to @Old_Grey and @vanepp suggestions and tips, I managed to accomplish new parts (which I pushed to github repo already).
Now, I noticed there isnât a proper guideline for making part creation learning curve easiest for most of us and even thought there are some youtube tutorial series (by Old_Grey), I felt we lack a proper âstandard bookâ for doing it.
Hence I made this new discussion in order to set up proper guidelines for development of new parts and organize all of them in one topic (and therefore a github wiki page).
By the way, this dude rocks making parts.
PD: Forgive my english.
My Inkscape settings
- Page properties tab:
- Display units: px
- Page size units: in
- Scale: 10,41667 user unit per px
- Page properties tab:
-
Grid #1
- Grid units: px
- x, y origin: (0, 0)
- x, y spacing: (0.01, 0.01)
- Primary line each: 10
-
Grid #2 (optional)
- Grid units: px
- x, y origin: (0, 0)
- x, y spacing: (0.1, 0.1)
- Primary line each: 100
- fit tab:
- object: 10 if closest
- grid: 10 if closest
- guides: 10 if closest
From vanepp:
âWhich when zoomed way in gives a 10 thou grid and when zoomed out to normal size creates a .1 in grid. You can then move the x/y start positions so the grid matches one of the connectors and the rest of the connectors should then align on the grid if they are correct.â