Cannot select Part/Edit (new part editor) to create a new part

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Cannot select Part/Edit (new part editor) to create a new part

As it is greyed out ie not selectable.

Any ideas please.

[vanepp]

You need to select a part to edit before it won’t be greyed out. You also need to start from a part that has the correct number of pins as parts editor can’t change the number of pins. These two tutorials will probably be helpful (old_grey’s covers parts editor, I don’t use it.)

Fritzing PART CREATION Video Tutorial Series

NEW FASTER PART MAKING VIDEOS AT THE BOTTOM-Fritzing Parts Fast ADVANCED FRITZING USER TIPS & TRICKS VIDEOS AT THE BOTTOM-Fritzing Adv Tips & Tricks A series of part creation videos - I’m not an expert, but there was nothing else around at the time. Use 1080p HD fullscreen to see details clearly - use gear symbol bottom right -. Recorded slowly for older people, so select a higher speed if it’s too slow. P.S. - Sorry about the voice/sound Fritzing Part Creation - Chapter1 - New Part …

Part creation howto part 1 breadboard and pcb

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…

I lately learned there aren’t links to the videos in Old_Grey’s tutorial so you need to do a google search for the title and then they come up on YouTube.

Peter

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Can anybody tell me what’s wrong with this file?

cd4069be.fzpz (6.7 KB)

This has been generated by Microsoft Copilot AI, and I am trying to teach it.

Only by telling it, no that fzpz does not work. Then it gives me another modifed file.

After 6 attempts I gave up, and went to bed.

But it would be interesting to see how close they got to a working one. They also provided the 4 svg’s.

Anybody willing to have a look and get back to me.

[vanepp]

The .fzpz can not be unzipped, so it isn’t a valid .fzpz file. Ah! It is the .fzp file without the svgs or the necessary part. prefix (i.e. part.cd4069be.fzp) a correct .fzpz file when uncompressed looks like this:

part.prefix0000_2831a6f19938d01c8f6d8eccfc7a7e54_1.fzp

svg.breadboard.prefix0000_2831a6f19938d01c8f6d8eccfc7a7e54_2_breadboard.svg

svg.icon.prefix0000_2831a6f19938d01c8f6d8eccfc7a7e54_1_icon.svg

svg.pcb.prefix0000_2831a6f19938d01c8f6d8eccfc7a7e54_1_pcb.svg

svg.schematic.prefix0000_2831a6f19938d01c8f6d8eccfc7a7e54_1_schematic.svg

I doubt that AI is going to be successful in making Fritzing parts, but I have basically no experience with AI either. If you want to make an IC the section in my tutorial on using the generic IC would ne the appropriate place to start.

Peter

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AI gave me a zip file. I tried to attach it to this forum, but zips are not allowed.

The following is the zip file unzipped.

[vanepp]

rename it to .fzpz (which is a zip file) and then it will upload.

Peter

Peter

[drizztguen77]

I just went to these links and they show all that parts of the videos with the times but there are no links to the actual videos. How do we find the links to the videos?

[vanepp]

By reading the last two lines of the post which tells you how to find the videos?

Peter

[drizztguen77]

@vanepp

ng the last two lines of the post which tells you how to find the videos

These 2 lines?

----------Please don’t post in this topic so I can keep all the videos together----------

Start a new topic if you want to talk about something here.

[vanepp]

No, these two lines at the bottom of my post which would have answered your question if you had read them..

@vanepp

I lately learned there aren’t links to the videos in Old_Grey’s tutorial so you need to do a google search for the title and then they come up on YouTube.

Peter

[drizztguen77]

Sorry I didn’t see those. I thought you were talking about on the page where the videos were listed.