Most of that is above my pay grade
but I do know a bit about FZ.
Ahem… you seem to know a lot about FZ. Many thanks for your tips!
Search the forum for top view parts. These are smaller from the top,
but you can’t make them shorter useless you redraw the part view.
Will do.
In PCB view select the bottom view at the bottom left, and all traces end up on one side.
Hmmm… did not work when I tried it - but another of your remarks lead me to the solution:
In PCB view, you can click on the PCB itself, and in the Inspector pane property ‘layers’ you can select ‘one layer (single-sided)’ or ‘two layers (double-sided)’.
Standing up parts should be selectable in the Inspector when you put a resistor on the PCB, and if it’s not search the forum for it.
Nice - I found Breadboard Top View Part Collection | #4, created a new bin “Top View” and imported " 10. Top View - Electrolytic Capacitor.fzpz (6.7 KB)".
Problem: When I change the value of the component from 1uF (default) to 10uF, Fritzing replaces the top-view part with the default small electrolytic capacitor (“No exactly matching part found. Fritzing chose the closest match.”).
I looked into the fzp file and found a few small differences to the normal capacitor file.
Interesting enough, there is a SPICE section in there. Can Fritzing also use (ng)spice to run simulations?
Stripboard is at the bottom of CORE parts, or is selectable in Inspector.
Found it in the CORE bin, section’Breadboard view’. Cool!
I think junctions losing snap is intended so you can see the connections when you move it.
Another FZ feature is click on a pin and everything connected turns yellow.
Handy! I’ve most used this in Breadboard view to see un-routed connections.
On schematic view, unconnected pins are red, connected ones are green, this is already helpful.
Many thanks for your time and reply!
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