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Fritzing - A Tutorial
by kaitlyn1franz on June 12, 2014

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Fritzing - A Tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Intro: Fritzing - A Tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Step 1: Core Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Step 2: My Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Step 3: Import Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Step 4: BreadBoard View - Drag Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Step 5: Connect Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Step 6: Parts Inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Step 7: Completed Circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Step 8: Schematic View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Step 9: Schematic View - Finalized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Step 10: PCB View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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Intro: Fritzing - A Tutorial
Fritzing is a free tool that allows users to create clean and professional images of electronics projects for teaching or sharing. Digilent uses Fritzing in all of our intern-
created projects, and we're working closely with Fritzing to have a bin of Digilent parts soon.

As promised a couple of weeks ago, we've created a tutorial for designing circuits in Fritzing!

Step 1: Core Parts

The first step in creating a Fritzing image is to find the parts you want to use. Fritzing comes with core parts bin, a “my parts” bin, and many other parts bins from specific
manufacturers.

The core parts bin is filled with many useful and generic parts. Here you can find things like LEDs, breadboards, connectors, and anything you might need other than
manufacturer-specific boards.

Step 2: My Parts
The original my parts bin will be empty, but mine is full of Digilent parts I or other Digilent employees have created.

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Step 3: Import Parts
If you would like to import Digilent or other user-created parts click on the drop down menu on the right side of the bar that says My Parts, and select import. Find the file
on your computer and it will be in the bin ready for use. You can download many parts, including Digilent parts, from the User Parts Repository.

Step 4: BreadBoard View - Drag Parts

If you drag the any part onto the breadboard, Fritzing will automatically show you all the pins that are connected to that part in green. The blue and white LEDs in my
sketch show this nifty feature. If you just place the LED on the grid, it will not be connected to anything, but don’t fret. We can always connect them with wires.

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Step 5: Connect Parts
To connect a wire, click on the first pin you want to connect and drag it to the second one.

Step 6: Parts Inspector

Now our LED is connected to the breadboard! On the bottom right you can see the part inspector. This allows you to change certain features, such as wire color. The
features will be different based on the specific part.

Step 7: Completed Circuit

Before we switch views, I’ll make a completed circuit. In breadboard view, it looks like this.

Notice that I have two separate circuits here, one using the Uno32 from Digilent and one using a battery pack. Using the Uno32 allows more control over the LED as can
be seen here. Now we’ll shift to the schematic view. To change views, select the appropriate tab on the top of the sketch.

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Step 8: Schematic View
Fritzing creates the schematics for you as long as you’ve connected everything in the breadboard view correctly. However, Fritzing doesn’t do all the work for you.
When you first open up the schematic view, it looks like this.

Step 9: Schematic View - Finalized

As you saw in the previous step the generated schematic view is a bit of a tangled mess. All you have to do now is move and rotate the parts as necessary.

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Step 10: PCB View
The same procedure applies for the PCB view. Fritzing makes all the connections for you, it just requires a little tweaking. The PCB view allows you to create your own
PCB boards from the circuits that you design.

On the bottom of the page it talks about routing. That just means you have to go over the dotted lines with solid lines in the way that you connected wires.

Step 11:
This tutorial can be found on the Digilent blog at blog.digilentinc.com.

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incognito0288 says: Jun 12, 2014. 10:30 PM REPLY

very useful. .. Thank you for this ;)

liquidhandwash says: Jun 12, 2014. 6:24 PM REPLY

That looks like a great software package, does it export dxf files of a cnc router?

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