TODO: I accidentally pulled the wrong(old) version of "fritzing-parts" from git when building the app, which means that the parts library may not contain some very new parts. I will re-build a bug-fixed version in the next 1 or 2 days to update the parts library.
If anyone wanna know how to build the Fritzing app from ground zero, please let me know in the comments. I'll write another post about that.
Fritzing is good to show a system architecture visibly when you want to describe your project with no actual boards and parts. I personally do not use it to make simulations which other commercial software is better than Fritzing.
There is little commonality between a schematic and Fritzing, the use of the latter is just trying to dumb it down to "Lego" building blocks. The user learns nothing useful, and pretty pictures are practically useless to any engineer.
Each to their own, but I tend to skip past posts where Fritzing pictures are used as evidence.
Yep, and when the beginners try to build a project from a typical crummy, misleading Fritzing diagram, they get the wrong parts in the holes backwards, then post on the Arduino forum asking us to explain why the smoke is rising from their "Lego building block system".
Really, it is best to let Fritzing die a quiet death, the sooner the better.
I understand your distain for Fritzing, It's not my favorite either. However can we offer a better alternative?
Unfortunately I don't have one. For breadboard layout (i.e. soldering to a standard copper clad perf board) I use CorelDraw. However lately I've been going directly to PCB's.
I can see how a beginner is better off using Fritzing than have nothing at all. I think it is unrealistic for a beginner to relate a piece of hardware they barely understand with a schematic symbol.
People really think that giving a beginner with zero electron knowledge an Altium Designer or Multisim diagram would make things better? That's kinds of unrealistic.
First, when I said, "go talk to them," I'm not really advising "jremington" to talk to fritzing, I mean "shut up and leave, you are not the target audience."
Second, fritzing may not be good at teaching but not make it trash.
Many programmers I know often use Xmind to draw diagrams for their codes(business logic, dependency, etc.) Will Xmind become trash because it's not a good programming teaching software?
Same for fritzing.
I'm using it to make a visible description for some of my projects to let people who have no electronic knowledge understand the basic frame quickly. Of, course I will put some professional diagrams alongside Fritzing picture, so people with different knowledge levels can automatically adapt.
As far as I know, Fritzing is the best way to make those basic diagrams.
Please advise me if you think there is an alternative for Fritzing.
For simple diagrams, I use Visio. Maintain clarity and. flow rules, yet can include prettiesâ so the gentle senses arenât offended. Even colour if needed. - and they can be scaled i too !
Schematics and mechanical drawings need more sensible tools.
My thoughts are simple. Were are here to help other folks and hopefully not waste the knowledge we've gained.
So if you cannot help, in this case recommend another alternative, then you should move to another post where you can help. Although I will admit I've been caught up in a discussion on something I feel passionate about, I try to keep my posts helpful.
This is a trick question isn't it...
Low resolution, no component names, no readable pin labels.
A mass of coloured wires.
Lousy, I could use stronger language, layout.
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I'm regressing to my fetal position under my desk....
(I though I had that under control, sorry an old reaction to Fritzy...and I so wanted to share New Years with my family..)
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Tom...
PS, If there is anything more obvious, I'm sorry I didn't go looking for any actual circuit mistakes.
That's the problem with Fritzing pictures. It shows where to connect the wires, but the user knows not why. Learns nothing. There is a circuit mistake that would be immediately visible on a schematic but it would take a few minutes of analysis from the picture. But by then, there would be smoke. (That's a hint).
