Fritzing's Graphic Templates - Download templates that will help you design your part.You could also use CorelDraw or Illustrator but Inkscape works really. Fritzing's Graphic Standards - Use these standard colors, fonts and styles to make your part look good! You will need to edit some SVGs and the best tool weve found for that is Inkscape.lbr2svg converts whole libraries, but is very involved to setup.
We have created internal tools for converting complete Eagle part libraries to individual Fritzing parts ( lbr2svg), as well as an Eagle project to a single Fritzing part ( brd2svg).īrd2svg is useful when you want to make a board you designed in Eagle available as a component in Fritzing.
The instructions about how to create graphics outside of Fritzing are still correct, but the specifics of how you use Fritzing's parts editor have completely changed! For more info see this blog post.
We released a new parts editor in version 0.7.9 of Fritzing, so these tutorials are currently out of date. Learn more Creating custom parts using the Part Editor Standard parts like ICs, resistors, and pin headers can be defined easily by using Fritzing's generic parts. Follow one of the two ways: Using generic parts Often there would be a quicker way to get what you need, like using a generic part or by modifying an existing part. Palette Windows consisting of the Part Library. Many projects require the use of some very specific parts and as we cannot provide them all, we try to make it as easy as possible for you to create your own.īe sure to check Fritzing's library before you start creating a new part from scratch. Project View where a virtual electronic circuit is built and edited in breadboard, schematic or pcb view.