Wray very very welcome aboard . I’m Peter, Inkscape ignoramous, much better part maker. 3 years ago when I started I didn’t know what an svg was, nor had I ever used an svg editor. I still use about %1 of Inkscape usually in a very non standard manner (xml editor is my friend
). I regularly have to reset the preferences.xml file after I do something (what I have no idea) that changes Inkscape’s behaviour in an odd and undesirable way (such as causing copies between svgs to occur as images rather than xml), so I hope you are up for lots of ignorant questions. There is a post about some of what we know about Inkscape here, feel free to add to / correct it:
That said I’ve downloaded your archive and had a quick look and see some changes that are desirable. You are correct the template files on the web site are a disaster. They are old, dimensioned in px from 72dpi Illustrator. They load correctly in Fritzing (because it will guess, sometimes incorrectly what dpi to use), but in modern Inkscape they are wrong. I have been working on a corrected set of templates, but been distracted by other tasks. Currently upgrading the parts checking script at
to only check the part (and do a better job of that) so it can be added to TravisCI on the parts repository tool chain to check parts submitted for inclusion in the repo, then to fix up the parts factory to emit parts with the correct scale and line values. I’ll work on modifying your current example svgs in to something that matches the part file format here:
and the graphics standards here:
http://fritzing.org/fritzings-graphic-standards/
and either post them here or make a pull request on github as you choose. Hopefully we can come up with something that could replace the current template files on the web site (possibly once the web site clean up is finished, I understand it is in bad shape currently as is most of Fritzing).
Peter