# Breadboard icon vs component image

**URL:** <https://forum.fritzing.org/t/breadboard-icon-vs-component-image/18693>\
**Category:** beginners\
**Created:** [March 26, 2023, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.fritzing.org/t/breadboard-icon-vs-component-image/18693 "2023-03-26T13:39:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![BerBuz](https://forum.fritzing.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@BerBuz](https://forum.fritzing.org/u/BerBuz)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2023, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.fritzing.org/t/breadboard-icon-vs-component-image/18693/1 "2023-03-26T13:39:16Z")

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Hello everyone,

I’m new to Fritzing but I’ve used a lot of professional CADs in my career, none of them had breadboard or stripboard capabilities which are very useful for a retiree so I did my choice.

I have two questions :

1-is there is a particular syntax for searching the component list only in the title.

2-if I understand well the leftmost image on the inspector is the icon for the breadboard but what about the following image , I don’t get the same thing. What did I miss?

thanks in advance

 ![FR-BB00](https://forum.fritzing.org/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8e785536833ee10c2ac58e108d6997bfccc0d0c3.jpeg)

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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:** [March 26, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.fritzing.org/t/breadboard-icon-vs-component-image/18693/2 "2023-03-26T14:36:49Z")

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Welcome aboard! You have likely selected a THT variant in Inspector (the lower right window) the version you want is SMD (selector circled in red here)

 ![capture](https://forum.fritzing.org/uploads/default/original/2X/8/83782cefd0a8a231ea91665c904bd77346fb255f.jpeg)

which looks like this in breadboard

 ![capture1](https://forum.fritzing.org/uploads/default/original/2X/9/95fcd2eb9ead03937066d42e9e0f6f9d8eb51918.jpeg)

edit:

While my answer is correct, you may in fact be looking for generic connectors (which are not obvious!) After dragging one in to the sketch like this

 ![capture](https://forum.fritzing.org/uploads/default/original/2X/e/ea1fe9d9d7867e64fb84c6121f4ec0f63a2359bd.jpeg)

you can use Inspector to change number of pins, sex (male or female) and various other attributes. However the change can only be made to a connector in a sketch (it won’t work in the parts bin.) Also dual row doesn’t display correctly in breadboard (it comes up as single row)

 ![capture2](https://forum.fritzing.org/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f660edef5bfaa77ee6b3a1a99a4fac1ea6f2a4f8.jpeg)

but is correct in pcb.

 ![capture3](https://forum.fritzing.org/uploads/default/original/2X/f/fb876527eb28d558e4e5ea5d9afabff13dc84f3b.jpeg)

Peter

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**Author:** ![BerBuz](https://forum.fritzing.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@BerBuz](https://forum.fritzing.org/u/BerBuz)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.fritzing.org/t/breadboard-icon-vs-component-image/18693/3 "2023-03-28T17:14:09Z")

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Thank you Peter, I was almost clear with generics but didn’t notice the variant option.