PCB Parts Editor Pin Selection Not Working

[BEelectro]

I’ve been working on creating a 4 channel module 817 optocoupler. I was able to get the breadboard and schematic views to work, but for some reason I can only attach 18 out of 24 pins in the PCB view (parts editor). There are crosshairs that show up on the first 18, but after that I can’t get anymore to work. I started with the PCB SVG template and modified it in Inkscape using duplicate, so I’m not sure why some pins work and others do not.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

OPTOCOUPLER 4CH.fzpz (65.8 KB)

[vanepp]

Your svg files are not in the correct format and lack layerIds. FritzingCheckPart.py reports the following errors on your part.

$ FritzingCheckPartw.py ‘part.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_53b951f7e12564af33ab05b3ac698a0f_10.fzp’

**** Starting to process file Startup, no file yet

**** Starting to process file part.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_53b951f7e12564af33ab05b3ac698a0f_10.fzp

**** Starting to process file svg.breadboard.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_breadboard.svg.bak

**** Starting to process file svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak

**** Starting to process file svg.pcb.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_pcb.svg.bak

File
‘part.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_53b951f7e12564af33ab05b3ac698a0f_10.fzp.bak’

This is a through hole part as both copper0 and copper1 views are present.
If you wanted a smd part remove the copper0 definition from line 50

Modified 4: File
‘svg.breadboard.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_breadboard.svg.bak’
At line 4

ReferenceFile

‘OPTOCOUPLER X4.svg’

doesn’t match input file

‘OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_breadboard.svg’

Corrected

Modified 4: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 4

ReferenceFile

‘OPTOCOUPLER X4 SCH.svg’

doesn’t match input file

‘OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg’

Corrected

Modified 4: File
‘svg.pcb.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_pcb.svg.bak’
At line 4

ReferenceFile

‘OPTOCOUPLER X4 PCB.svg’

doesn’t match input file

‘OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_pcb.svg’

Corrected

Warning 6: File
‘part.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_53b951f7e12564af33ab05b3ac698a0f_10.fzp.bak’
At line 2

ReferenceFile name

‘2-channel-relay-module_1.fzp’

Doesn’t match fzp filename

‘OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_53b951f7e12564af33ab05b3ac698a0f_10.fzp’

Warning 32: File
‘svg.breadboard.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_breadboard.svg.bak’
At line 2

Scale is not the desirable 1/1000 ratio from width/height to
viewBox width/height.

Warning 23: File
‘svg.breadboard.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_breadboard.svg.bak’
At line 22

Key -inkscape-font-specification
value ‘Droid Sans, Normal’ is invalid and has been deleted

Warning 32: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 2

Scale is not the desirable 1/1000 ratio from width/height to
viewBox width/height.

Warning 23: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 142

Key -inkscape-font-specification
value ‘OCRA, Normal’ is invalid and has been deleted

Warning 32: File
‘svg.pcb.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_pcb.svg.bak’
At line 2

Scale is not the desirable 1/1000 ratio from width/height to
viewBox width/height.

Warning 20: File
‘svg.pcb.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_pcb.svg.bak’
At line 30

copper1 layer should be at the top, not under group copper0

Error 69: File
‘svg.breadboard.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_breadboard.svg.bak’
At line 21

Found a drawing element before a layerId (or no layerId)

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 18

terminalId connector146terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 19

terminalId connector147terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 20

terminalId connector148terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 21

terminalId connector149terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 22

terminalId connector129terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 23

terminalId connector130terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 24

terminalId connector131terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 25

terminalId connector132terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 26

terminalId connector133terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 27

terminalId connector144terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 28

terminalId connector142terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 29

terminalId connector143terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 30

terminalId connector141terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 31

terminalId connector140terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 32

terminalId connector136terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 33

terminalId connector151terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 34

terminalId connector138terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 35

terminalId connector137terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 36

terminalId connector150terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 37

terminalId connector134terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

Error 77: File
‘svg.schematic.OPTOCOUPLER 4CH_2d7194bb8fdbc56d8a7c9b6c0e392041_3_schematic.svg.bak’
At line 38

terminalId connector139terminal can’t be a g as it won’t work.

The reason pcb isn’t working correctly is that the .fzp file isn’t correct (and parts editor AFAIK won’t usually modify the fzp file, it needs to be copied from a part with the correct number of connectors to work.)

here we see connector5 works but connector6 doesn’t. The reason is this in the fzp file for the part, connector5 is properly defined with a pcb view defined so the pins work.

    <connector id="connector5" name="G" type="male">
      <description>GND</description>
      <views>
        <breadboardView>
          <p layer="breadboard" svgId="connector5pin"/>
        </breadboardView>
        <schematicView>
          <p layer="schematic" svgId="connector5pin" terminalId="connector5terminal"/>
        </schematicView>
        <pcbView>
          <p layer="copper0" svgId="connector5pin"/>
          <p layer="copper1" svgId="connector5pin"/>
        </pcbView>
      </views>
    </connector>

connector6 is has no pcb connection information and thus doesn’t work.

      <description>V+ IN TO LED CH4</description>
      <views>
        <breadboardView>
          <p layer="breadboard" svgId="connector6pin"/>
        </breadboardView>
        <schematicView>
          <p layer="schematic" svgId="connector6pin" terminalId="connector6terminal"/>
        </schematicView>
        <pcbView/>
      </views>
    </connector>

note pcb view in this entry is an empty group so the pins don’t work. The following tutorials on part making may help (I as you will see, typically don’t use parts editor as it wasn’t completed when development stopped in 2016 and hasn’t yet been finished.) I tend to directly edit the underlying files which I find much easier than fighting parts editor. Both of these tutorials apply to current versions of Fritizng many of the others are for older versions.

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Someone in this forum post http://forum.fritzing.org/t/tarjeta-s4a-edu-pieza-en-proceso-solamente-falta-la-imagen-en-pcb-y-en-esquematico/7487 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 origi…

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Hope this helps, if not feel free to post again.

Peter

[BEelectro]

Thank you for your advice.

I spent a lot of time reading through everything I could find, and I think I finally fixed it good enough for my purposes. I ended up fixing the .svg files, and editing the .fzp file in Xed text editor. That seems to have fixed it.

If someone wants to use or improve the fixed (good enough for me) version, here it is…
OPTOCOUPLER 4CH.fzpz (57.0 KB)

[vanepp]

Looks good, the only thing I see is that the holes in pcb are 0.043in, for a 0.1in header (assuming you don’t want larger holes for thicker wires which you may!) should be 0.038in. In Inkscape (which looks like what you are using) the hole size is set by

hole_size = pad_diameter - (2 x stroke-width)

Peter