Pir Fritzing

[Tordis Hurrle]

Iknow there was a problem with the part update for a lot of people. Basically it would load parts without any indication, so after a while people thought it froze and closed the prog. This totally destroys the install and any reloads of the program, and the way to clear it was to remove every trace of FZ in the files and start again.

Always remember when faced this type of issue before solving this just cool down and read some good morning quotes then you will see the mind will be fresh and you will get the solution of that problem.

Have you tried clearing the user directories as mentioned above? It would also be a good bet to reinstall Fritzing in case the installation is corrupted (after clearing the user directories!) Otherwise I would need to know exactly what happens when you try and start Fritzing.

I clear C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Fritzing and

C:\Users\OneDrive\My Documents\Fritzing

then I open it this problem still exists fritzing is always loading new sketch

so i reinstall Fritzing but no matter how many times I try this promble still there

I am using IR Sensor Module for my final project.

I am unable to find Fritzing part for the same.

Anybody can help me with a downloadable link?

It will be great help!

Thanks and regards

Tunir Das

That gives a green colored Sensor.

I would prefer a blue one better because I am using a blue sensor physically.

also I downloaded fc 51(green one) from somewhere on the internet.

I blue one is preferable.

Regards.

@prgtia Could you kindly link/attach the zip folder/exe file of Fritzing you are using.?

Or just attach a fritzing file with the component you sent a screenshot of?

That would really help!

Regards,

Tunir Das

This is file in which I have attached IR sensor on breadboard:- =1QdSw2lqVtmlTRzTcRqkzlBLcY0Dd1qdD

Hope you can download it.

If not available try downloading Fritzing again:- after login into your account.

It may be possible that you have downloaded Fritzing a some time ago and recently the software may have some changes.

Making your own circuit boards can be a daunting challenge. You have to design a schematic, test it on a breadboard, design the board layout, and then after all of that, you still have to print and etch a board!

Fritzing is a free open-source PCB design suite that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Unlike Eagle or KiCad, Fritzing has a simple and realistic interface that makes designing circuits intuitive. Today, I'm going to show you how to use my favorite design program to make your very first professional circuit board.

Go to the Fritzing download page and select your operating system. Follow the instructions on the page to install on your computer. When you install Fritzing, it will come with all sorts of great parts libraries. There are basic components like wires, buttons, resistors, etc. There are also specialty components like Arduino boards and sensors that can easily added to your designs!

To the right of the screen is our menu bar with all of the components and options. If a component is customizable, the lower half of the tool bar will display the custom options available for that specific part.

The first thing we want to do is place a component down on the breadboard. We will be designing a simple circuit that powers an LED light. We will need one resistor in our circuit. Select and drag the resistor onto the work area as shown below. The introductory text box above the breadboard will disappear when you place your first component.

Drag the resistor down to the breadboard so that each lead is connected to a vertical column on the board. When a component makes a connection to a column, the whole row turns light green as shown below. The green area indicates an electrical connection between breadboard holes.

With our resistor selected, we can use the options in the lower half of the toolbar to change the value, tolerance, and spacing of the resistor. Set the resistor to 220 ohms. Below, the resistor has been rotated to make a connection with the ground rail on the top of the breadboard. To rotate any component in the breadboard, schematic, or board layout tab, simply right-click and select rotate. I rotated this resistor 90 degrees clockwise.

Position the power wires, as shown below, with positive on the top rail and ground on the bottom rail. The wire spacing of the battery output does not fit with the spacing of the upper breadboard power rails. To fix this, place the red wire over a hole in the top row. Now, click and drag a wire from the negative battery lead to the lower row. Your battery connection should look like the picture below.

Congratulations! You designed an entire circuit and all it took was dragging and dropping a few components! The breadboard feature is not found in any other PCB design software. It really makes the whole process easier to be able to see real life images of your circuit.

Ta-da! It's your schematic! Well, it's at least technically your schematic. Fritzing makes sure that all of the connections are correct, but aesthetics are still beyond the grasp of a desktop app. Your screen will look like the one below with the components spread well apart. Some may even be off screen! Zoom in and out using the slide bar on the bottom right of the work area.

My connects all started out crossing over each other. We want to orient the components so that the lines between them are as short and straight as possible. Right-click and use the rotate option to orient your components in a saner fashion.

We made it! We are finally going to design a real life circuit board on our own! Click the PCB tab on the top right of the tool bar. As with the schematic tab, the PCB tab has our components scattered hither and thither.

Since the purpose of a circuit board is to make circuits take up as little space as possible, we are going to shrink the green board down until there is just enough space for the components. To shrink the board, simply click on any corner and drag toward the center of the board.

As with the schematic, move and rotate the components so that the lines between them are straight and direct as shown below. These lines are not yet the copper traces on the final board design, but indicators as to what parts need to be connected.

Click on any part of the green board and bring your mouse to the lower half of the tool bar where the board customization options appear. Go the the "layers" scroll down menu and select "one layer (single sided)" Circuit boards made in big factories can have lots of layers of traces sandwiched into the board. Because our circuit is simple and because single-sided blank PCB boards are common and cheap, we will design our copper PCB traces on a single layer.

Right now, you technically have a fully functioning circuit board design and you can go on to etching a physical board at home. But before you waste a copper clad board, take a few minutes to make sure your board works the first time and looks as cool as you are.

The Autoroute created some superfluous bend points in the topmost wire. Bring your mouse over any of the tiny orange circles on the wire. When the bendpoint turns blue, right-click and select "remove bendpoint".

Select the wire and bring your mouse to the lower half of the toolbar on the right side of the screen. There is a wire option for customizing the width of the copper traces on your board. Small traces are good for intricate designs and for saving space, but home PCB fabrication cannot always produce small and accurate traces. To make sure the connections are strong even if a small part of the etching process goes wrong, select the largest trace width from the dropdown menu.

Custom text and images are easy to load into any Fritzing project. In the tool bar on the right scroll all the way down to the options titled "PCB View". The rightmost option with the letter F is the silkscreen option. Click and drag it into the work area.

The silkscreen layer is essentially a layer of labels painted onto a board after the circuit is built. You may have noticed that there are already silk screen images of each component on the board. Fritzing will always automatically create the component silk screen layer!

Below we have placed the default silkscreen image on our board. It appears white because it is part of the silkscreen layer and not the orange copper layer. But someone shrieks, "I thought we were doing this project at home! We can't hand paint this tiny stuff on a circuit board!" Right you are, keen concerned scientists. Instead of adding a silkscreen image, we can add a copper image to be etched just like we plan to do with the traces.

With the silkscreen image selected, go to the lower half of the tool bar and select "copper0" from the "layer" dropdown menu. Your image will turn orange indicating that it is part of the copper layer. It will also flip horizontally. The entire copper layer is, in fact, completely backwards. Fritzing does because when we etch the final board, the whole pattern is reversed in the transfer from the paper to the copper surface.

To upload your own image, click the image file button below the layer, type, and size customization menus on the lower toolbar. Below, I added in my website name and logo as well as some simple text. The text as of now is not customizable with regard to font. Fritzing is still in development though, and I wouldn't be surprised if custom fonts where available soon.

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