# An overview of .fzpz, .fpz parts files usage in Fritzing

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**Category:** parts help\
**Created:** [October 12, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.fritzing.org/t/an-overview-of-fzpz-fpz-parts-files-usage-in-fritzing/17138 "2022-10-12T21:57:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![vanepp](https://forum.fritzing.org/user_avatar/forum.fritzing.org/vanepp/32/4426_2.png) [@vanepp](https://forum.fritzing.org/u/vanepp)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.fritzing.org/t/an-overview-of-fzpz-fpz-parts-files-usage-in-fritzing/17138/2 "2022-10-12T22:54:01Z")

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You may want to have a look at

> [@Part creation howto part 1 breadboard and pcb](https://forum.fritzing.org/t/part-creation-howto-part-1-breadboard-and-pcb/7692):
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> Someone in this forum post requested help to fix up a part. So while doing that I decided to record what I needed to do in order to fix the part to provide a tutorial to create new / fix broken parts. If you start from the Tarjeta S4A EDU.fzpz file posted in the above thread, you should be able to recreate my improved part posted in the same thread. I started by loading the original part in to Fritzing, that indicates breadboard is (at first look anyway) pretty good, but schematic and pcb are…

which documents most of the above. The easy (and correct) solution for loading .fzpz file is to either double click on them or us File-\>open then select the .fzpz file in the file system. That will load the part in to the mine parts bin and if you save it when exiting Fritzing it will be there in the mine parts bin when you next start Fritzing. To get a part in to core parts you need to make a pull request against the repository on github. Right clicking on a part in the mine parts bin then selecting export part will export the part as an .fzpz file for archiving (which is a wise idea as it is possible to corrupt the user directories and lose the contents of the mine parts bin.)

Peter

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