Auto-color by wire-length in breadboard mode
Hi all!
I`m looking for a tool to document my breadboard schematic. Fritzing is already great vor this task but it would even be better if one could map a colortable to wire length. Say 1" is blank, 2" ist white, 3" is yellow,.....
I have my breadboard wires in nine different colors and it speeds up rebuilding if i search for a color not for a length!
Other hint: Some parts are too high! They overlap with parts in upper lines!
Great tool, great project, great work!
Thanks!
Regars, Lupus
Hi Lupus,
Color table to wire length seems very specific to your way of working, rather than being a feature that many people would want. I guess we would rethink that if you could convince us otherwise. Currently, once you select a wire color, Fritzing keeps that as the default color for the next wire, so that may help you a little as you're documenting an existing breadboard. Fritzing currently only offers 8 colors, so we're missing at least one that you're using--which one (or ones)?
The parts size thing is a little tricky, since we want the parts to be easily visually distinguishable. But which parts are you finding too high?
Thanks.
- j
Hi Jonathan,
yes, you are rigth! The connection between the fritzing view and my pysical wire colors may be specific for me! But i think the feature is useful for overview at all! If you have multiple wires in parallel (physical three wires are good usable) you dont need to follow each wire, you can see how many holes are skipt by the wirecolor. I still use this with manual color-picking!
One of my favorite features of fritzing is the wire bending! This is missing in other, simpler solutions and is realy great. And with bendet, parallel and overlapping wires, what is sometimes simply required, the colors are a must have.
As far as i remember i'm missing brown! RGB-Values would be great,.. and multicolor,... and markrings like on signalwires,... ahhhmm, missing brown! :-)
My main problem with parts are the LED's. They take 8 line above there connection line. I already made an ugly replacement myself.
An other problem is the fixed width of some parts. For example a resistor has a pin spacing option but it does not resize. It skips three holes all the time. In physical resistors can skip zero to zen holes. Sometimes you need to vary this when the space becomes rare!
Regards,
Lupus
BTW: I like the generic parts like IC or "mystery part"! This is really usfull for keeping the partlists handy.
Hi Lupus,
We talked to some more people about your suggestion and it seems that your usage of colors is quite special. So we will not change the current behaviour, sorry..
We will add a brown color to the list, though, thanks for the suggestion. :)
We are aware of the large parts and intend to solve it eventually by making the legs of the parts bendable. What do you think about that?
At the moment, it sometimes helps to turn the LED by 180 degrees so that it is out of the way if you're working in the upper region of the breadboard.
Best,
andré>
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