I’m obviously doing something wrong. I drag a connector from core in to breadboard and in inspector change row from single to double and pins to 8 expecting to get a 4 and 4 double row connector. In breadboard it remains an 8 row single connector, as it does in schematic (which may be normal) and in pcb it changes to a two row connector as expected. However if I then select the part in pcb and try and edit it with parts editor I get an error message about unable to read a temp file for Generic double female header - 8 pins generic_double_row_8_100mil not found (and it is entirely correct, there is no such file in the temp directory listed). So what am I doing wrong? I’d say this machine is corrupted except I cleared temp and deleted and reinstalled Fritzing (because I had been muddling around in core parts and may have damaged something) but the clean install does the same thing as do two other installations on Win7 and Win10 on a different machine that I hadn’t screwed with the Fritzing core directories on.
I pulled another 2 pin header into BB and tried 8 pin first, and double row second, and then things really went crazy in PCB. I ended up with a 2 pin, AND another muddled 8 pin.
I’m of the thought that a Windows patch must have broken the permissions and are blocking the script that writes the svg from creating it (but why it works for the fpz is a mystery then), as I can’t see something this basic not working at some point in the past. A look at the debug console isn’t illuminating, it documents the creation of the fpz file in temp but says nothing one way or the other about the svg (it in fact says nothing after the creation of the fpz which does exist in temp). I may try Fritzing on Linux and see if that works and this is only a Windows issue.
I don’t know much about that, but Racer said it was a 1 pin svg that gets assembled when you select the config in Insp. Don’t know how they do the PCB though.
I expect the same way a script (although since I don’t see anything likely in the script directory, perhaps the main program) copies the number of pins to a temp svg. The pcb part seems to be working, only bb is broken.
I must of got a part update, because when I tried it before the PCB view had a 2 pin header, PLUS there was a 8 pin header with the pins muddled and overlapping.
I just tried this and is still does not work. Am I doing something wrong? I need a 3 row, 8 pin, male connector. The board I’m using actually seems to be a 2 row connector and a 1 row connector. The 2 row connector I think is actually 2 pin connectors mounted vertically (a 2 pin column) to create a horizontal 8x2 connector with a single row connector mounted above it. Maybe I could try to duplicate that? What is the best way for me to create this part? Using the core parts and selecting rows = 2 does nothing, I still see only a 1 row part.
Breadboard is broken (by design!) dual row appears as a single row in breadboard. The way to make multi row headers is to make a custom part and copy/paste single row connectors and space them 0.1in (or the pitch) apart. I am slowly working on a python script to do this.