How to create Fritzing part from SVG

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The image needs to be a svg file not a png. It also needs to be a specific format (described here)

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…

A part made from the above image looks like this

mystery-part.fzpz (3.4 KB)

unzip the .fzpz file to get the fzp file and the 3 svg files for the part. Breadboard needs to look like this (with the layerId set to breadboard which needs to match the .fzp file in order for the part to export as an image.) The connectors need to start at connector0pin (and again match the definition in the fzp file) and in this case be on the end of the pin so the wire connects to the end of the pin rather than the middle of the pin. The entire part looks like this (here displayed in Inkscape)

The part looks like this

breadboard

schematic

pcb

breadboard with no connections indicating where the connect point is

here I didn’t choose to use a terminalId (which would have made the entire pin red but still connected to the end of the pin because of the terminalId.)

Peter