Schematic to svg

[vanepp]

@microMerlin

Spaces are important for font names, so yes, “DroidSans” is a different font than “Droid Sans”. The correct font for Fritzing is “Droid Sans”.

Actually there are three Droid Sans type fonts in the font file.

DroidSans.ttf font name “Droid Sans”

DroidSans-Bold.ttf font name - “Droid Sans” (don’t know how this is different that the one above though, although they look different on the screen in Windows!)

“Droid Sans Mono” font name - “Droid Sans Mono”

and I believe DroidSans works in Fritzing (although it is very possible it is being font substituted.)

@fjp

Thank you @microMerlin for the links I will try to get more acquainted with the Fritzing requiremtents.

There are also tutorials in the forum, these two apply to versions later than 0.9.3b (some of the others are for older versions.)

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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…

@fjp

Here is the complete .fzpz part file including the erratic schematic svg. I would be interested to know what the problem is and how to view all the lines and connections and get the font right:

I suspect the font issue is with the font name (although I think this works for me, but I don’t use parts editor!) the font name here is DroidSans not “Droid Sans”:

compared to the schematic from my part:

on the same text. As well your svg is missing connectorIds which will make it not actually work in Fritzing (and a layerId which is not as fatal.)

The entire drawing needs to be in a group and the group named the same as the layerId field in the .fzp file, in this case schematic like this:

As well the pins need labels that match the pin definition in the .fzp file like this:

without the proper connectorIds the svg won’t work in Fritzing.

@fjp

Thank you for the part @vanepp . What would you suggest to fix the PCB view?

The path for the board outline in pcb is (I think!) corrupted. The breadboard from eagle2fritzing looks like this in Inkscape:

It is possible this is because my version of eagle2frtizing was built 3 or 4 years ago and is based on Fritzing 0.9.3 (current version of Fritzing is 0.9.6 which has fixes for path problems in pcb and perhaps in general and may help.) I tried to edit the path, to correct it but I don’t know enough about manipulating paths to do it. So I added a blue rectangle underlying the path and added circles where the mounting holes should be to create the breadboard in the part. In pcb I would need to recreate the correct path and set the stroke width to 10 and fill to none to recreate the board outline. However since this is an existing board with grove connectors on it, it is unlikely anyone will use pcb so I elected to just delete the corrupted path and only leave the grove connector pins.

Peter