We'll draw first pad in the left bottom corner. I'll just copy the alignment from the sample footprint, shouldn't be What you'll be drawing is the copper pads exactly the way they'll appear on PCB. Just shift-click on any yellow in the palette you'd like to use. Pick a color, you'll be drawing pads and this will ensure they're colored as you place them. You might also want to color those lines white - while they are selected, point at white in the palette at the bottom and shift-click. Now select the path, group it and ID as 'silkscreen'. Will see how it works, but it looks great already. With the grid, I just drew a path (Straight line tool, draw lines by left click, end drawing by right click). You can snap to it, which should theoretically decrease the amount of 'Transform->Move' we have to do to align everything.ĭraw lines at the contour, for the outline.

Height: number of pads from one side * 0.1inch, plus 0.02in for the outline againīy Dopieralski's suggestion, let's turn the grid on (View->Page Grid).

Width: whatever is width of your package in 0.1inch units, plus 0.02in for outline.

Fritzing generates those automatically, again, and this is how it looks:

6) Simple guide - making the PCB footprint at 00:12.

Anyway, if something doesn't link - regenerate database, restart Fritzing and so on. If it doesn't, Ctrl+Z until it does and repeat the changes one-by-one.įritzing also has a Part->Regenerate part database menu entry, I figure it could help if you changed something by editing XMLs and something doesn't link with something. Link any SVGs you want, experiment away and it should work. Adding pins to an XML is maybe the only troublesome task - if you need more pins, you could probably write a macro for copy-pasting those since manually copying and pasting those blocks is very simple but time-consuming and easy to make a mistake in.

fzp is just an XML file and if all fails, you can edit it easily. Basically, Part Editor is a powerful thing.You can also edit pin descriptions, metadata and any XML fields.You can also map pins to SVG elements there, though I didn't try it out myself.

In Parts editor, use the File->Load image for view to load new SVGs for the currently selected view (Breadboard/Schematic/PCB/Icon).It'll be in Documents/Fritzing/parts/user.Locate the part in your Documents folder.

Place the part you want to copy on breadboard/PCB/schematic.Copy a part from the stock library to 'My parts' library.If you want to create your very new part, here's the short way to do it:

Fritzing esp32