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DIPTRACE ICON HOW TO

Save it in SVG format (without any program-specific add-ons):.Save the file again, close and open it to check that the graphics are now placed correctly. Close and open the file again, use the grid and drag (do not align!) the graphics to the upper left corner of the crop area, making sure all graphics are within. Please Note: a bug in illustrator might cause the graphics to move from the crop area after saving. Illustrator: use the crop tool and option “Fit crop area to Artwork bounds". Inkscape: select the group, then go to "File>Document Properties" and click on "Fit Page to Selection". Resize the art board to the external dimensions of the part:.

Group all graphical elements and rename this group according to what it represents (“breadboard”, "schematic", "pcb" or "icon").

Rearrange all graphical elements inside a single layer.

Delete all unnecessary layers (for example a breadboard image that you used as reference).

Delete all graphical artefacts like masks, meshes and styles.

Now make your SVG compatible with Fritzing: Open an existing footprint in Inkscape to understand how it is done.

A graphic for the PCB View should be grouped according to the different PCB layers.

You will also find the schematic symbol in the datasheet, which you can use for the schematic view graphic.

Use the part's datasheet and use a caliper so that you can get the correct external dimensions and reliable information about the part's specifications.

Do not use any effects such as gradients and other bitmap effects.

When modifying an existing part, never rename its connector paths.

Design according to Fritzing's graphic standards.

Or modify an existing part's graphics following these rules:

Let's start with the breadboard and schematic graphics. Especially when you need to create a custom PCB footprint, the contrib folder can save you a lot of work. You can use the open-source tool Inkscape (free and cross-platform), the commercial tool Adobe Illustrator (costly and Win/Mac only), or any other vector drawing tool that supports the SVG Tiny or Basic standards (see this list of tools).īefore you start creating your own graphics, check the existing graphics in the subfolders at Fritzing>parts>svg>core and Fritzing>parts>svg>contrib. If you are interested in sharing your custom parts with the Fritzing community, we strongly recommend using a vector graphic editor to draw all part's graphics in SVG format. Using JPEG & PNG images is the easiest and fastest way to get things done, although zooming might pixelate your image. SVG, PNG and JPEG formats are supported (except for the part's pcb graphic which must be an SVG for the gerber files export to work well).

DIPTRACE ICON HOW TO

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.Įvery Fritzing Part must have 3 different graphics for each of the 3 different views ( Breadboard, Schematic and PCB), plus an icon for the parts bin. We released a new parts editor in version 0.7.9 of Fritzing, so these tutorials are currently out of date.