I am trying to use this schematic:
cd4051.fzpz (6.9 KB)
I can’t get it to work in Version 1 or 1.01 so I tried 0.9.10 and it worked but the internal parts of the IC are not showing. They show up in parts editor but not in schematic view.
Thanks for any help.
Kevin.
The fzpz file doesn’t show the internal parts either (this is on Fritzing 1.0.1)
the schematic svg in the fzpz has different pins (which is odd as well) but no internal parts in the fzp file (but isn’t being displayed for the part either!)
probably the root cause of the problem is the family is still Generic IC in the fzp file. I expect parts factory is misinterpreting this and supplying a 16 pin generic IC image.
<properties>
<property name="family">Generic IC</property>
This does however to appear to be a bug in 1.0.1 as 0.9.10 displays the correct (but still wrong, as it has no internal stuff) svg from the part as it should this is the part in 0.9.10 (which matches the schematic svg in the part at least.)
You need to open an issue in github here:
so the bug in 1.x gets noted and hopefully fixed. If you upload the original schematic svg that has the internal parts in it I will have a look and see if I can see something Fritizng is going to be unhappy about in it. It may be parts editor stripped out bits it couldn’t process.
Peter
The svgfile I provided in the first post is the original svg.
I did change the name to remove any personal postfixes.
Here’s the SVG with my original postfixes on the name:
I’ll report the bug tomorrow.
Thanks,
Kevin.
Sorry, I completely missed that you had posted the original svg file at the start of the post. OK I think I have figured out what went wrong and where a number of bugs are. The good news is that I also managed to salvage your svg and correct the part so it works correctly. So lets start with that:
cd4051-fixed.fzpz (6.7 KB)
This is the corrected part which I believe now works correctly. The changes needed are documented in the rather long post to follow. To report the bugs on github I expect you will need to download the various images to your desktop then drag them in to the github window to upload them. For fritzing files (fzpz and fzz) you need to append a .zip to the end of them because github only accepts zip files (not .fzpz or .fzz.) To start I loaded the cd4051.fzpz first to Fritzing 0.9.10:
The first problem is you managed to upload the schematic svg in to breadboard (in the fized part I replaced it with a 16 pin dip breadboard svg.) That svg has no terminalIds so the wires connect to the middle of the pin not the end as they should. Other than that (and the schematic image in breadboard) this appears to work fine. All the connections go to the correct place and all looks happy. On to schematic:
Other than the lack of internal connections (likely a Fritzing 1.0.1 parts editor bug) it looks fine in 0.9.10.
pcb is also fine.
So on to Fritzing1.0.1:
breadboard is much the same as 0.9.10, schematic is much more broken!
Even though the terminalId is present in both the .fzp file and the svg it isn’t used in connector3terminal (it is unclear why.) In addition text from the generic IC (which is not in the schematic svg which was loaded) has been added from somewhere, and the pins are misplaced (again not like in the svg!) There appear to be a number of bugs here.
again pcb looks normal. With the apparent bugs detailed, lets move on to problems in your svg and how I fixed them. The first problem is you look to be using Adobe Illustrator, which is OK except it isn’t as configurable as Inkscape and specifically there doesn’t appear to be a way to set the dimensions to either in or mm (I have read the online Illustrator documentation without finding a way to set this.)
There is a suggestion of what to set from some time back, I don’t know if it works or not but may help
although it doesn’t look like it (the attached svg is dimensioned in px!)
Here is a recent post of what an Illustrator user does to get Illustrator svgs in to Fritzing
That said on to the problems with your svg.
here I loaded your svg in to Inkscape. As we see the dimension is set to px (which Inkscape assumes means 96dpi and Illustrator typically sees as 72dpi.) If you look at the image (the grid lines are on 0.1in boundaries) you can see the scaling issue. The various wires should be on 0.1in boundaries and they are not. To fix that I changed the dimension to inches then rescaled the entire svg til the lines were again on 0.1in boundaries.
on the way by I changed the scale to be the desirable 1 drawing unit = 1/1000in.
somewhere in the ungroup and rescale I lost your terminal definitions (they are there in the original svg though!) so I replaced them with a 10thou by 10thou rectangle with fill=none, stoke=none and stroke-width=0, then positioned them on the end of the pin. I also set the stroke-linecap to round, and the line color to #555555 to match the graphics standard. Then in the fzp file I changed a few fields
You need to add you name in the author field. I changed the family from “Generic IC” (which is a flag to Fritzing that this is a parts factory part which you don’t want!) to CD4051
then I added names to all the description fields. As noted above the breadboard svg is currently a copy of the schematic svg so I replaced that with a generic 16 pin dip svg.
I also in the schematic svg changed ‘DroidSans-Bold’ (which isn’t a valid Fritzing font) to ‘Droid Sans’ which is a correct Fritzing font. It appears to me that the problem occured in this step (this is editing the original fzpz file in Fritzing 1.0.1 parts editor and trying to replace the schematic svg image.)
clicking OK here appears to corrupt the schematic svg (Fritzing 0.9.10 correctly translates the fonts) indicating that 1.0.1 has a bug in the font substitution code. The resulting svg looks like this which is incorrect:
The internal connections getting lost appears to be that parts editor for some reason decided to delete this group named “Art” which contains all the internal connections. I don’t know why that happened as the group is not unusual in any way I can see, perhaps one of the developers will see something I didn’t. That appears to be why there are no internal connections in the schematic svg. though.
As noted all my changes are in the cd4051-fixed.fzpz
part which appears to work correctly. Hope this helps!
edit
Since I’m here, I will open an issue on github for the bugs found
here.
edit2:
bug filed here
Peter
Thanks a bunch here Peter.
I have been swamped with work and life since I posted this now you have done all the work here.
I’d buy you a beer if I could.
In the mean time, I’ll buy Fritzing another coffee.
P.S. The part works great!
Cheers,
Kevin.
Not a problem, I had the problem in hand (while I remembered it!) So far there hasn’t been any comment but I expect that may change (even if to say we can’t reproduce this) in due time.
Peter
