Here are some “Breadboard Top View” parts collection… With SMD parts…
Many of them created by Peter Van Epp. Some are new…
I redesigned them for realistic view as much I can…
I made some small SMD components as top view also, for easy use on Perfboard and for size comparison…
If You want to request for new top view part, make sure that is a very common part. I can’t make every unique parts.
But, Also have 20+ triac, transistor, scr, mofet top-view parts for easy SCHEM/PCB making. If you need those, ask.
I’ve just started using Fritzing and already on my first project I became frustrated with how much of the board is covered by most THT components. This is a massive upgrade, and in a single batch file no less. Not only that, but as somebody new to electronics I hadn’t considered mounting resistors and diodes vertically. Out of habit I’ve always soldered them flat to the board. Just looking through the library made me realize how useful a vertical position will be on some crowded boards.
Thank you so much for this. Fritzing is now what I hoped it would be.
I created a variant of “12. Top View - LED Red 5mm.fzpz” that is centered on the pins (no movable leads). I also created a black IR phototransistor variant. Enjoy!
Note: This is meant for perfboard use only, so there aren’t schematic or pcb images (also because I’m not really sure how to make those.)
You should be able to use the images from the non- top view parts these are based on. Those should be exactly the same. Not fully confirmed, but it should actually be possible to simply reference the image files in the core parts. Custom parts like this can (from a minimal test) use image files from the core parts. That does need a bit of manual editing of the xml (text) fzp file, but just enough to put the file names in the right spot for the view layers.
Can you please replace the generic sysmbol in TO92 top view parts and add the schematic symbols of a NPN and PNP transistor in the schematic view? I read about how I can change the image but it takes SVG editing experience that I don’t have. Is there a way to replace the schematic icon in your part with the npn/pnp symbol from the CORE parts list?
Yes but (the but being that the pin numbers need to match which they likely don’t.) I expect the reason he did it like this is that doing it properly takes around 6 parts (one each for pnp/npn then bec/ebc/cbe) whereas the current one is generic (one part does all 6 if somewhat poorly.)
As Peter said, there are various pinouts for TO-92. In my real collection I found 5 types in NPN (ebc, ecb, cbe ceb, bce), there must be “bec” too somewhere in this world.
Same goes for PNP… So maximum number of part would be 12, just for Transistors.
Then various pinouts for Mosfets, SCR, Triac, regulators…
So I made simple schematic…
But u’r in luck, I made some of the years ago… Anyway, Here are those extra parts:
Updated & New Batch File: