Make Your Own Fritzing Parts
HelloTechie 
What is Fritzing?
Fritzing is a great open source tool for anyone to teach, share, and prototype their electronic projects! It allows you to design a schematic, and thus a part, which can then be added to very professional-looking wiring diagrams. You can even design your own PCBs and have them fabricated from the files you design. Here at SparkFun, we use Fritzing in the classrooms, our hook-up guides, and any other place we need to show how to hook-up our boards to other hardware.
The awesome thing about Fritzing is that you can make your own Fritzing parts for your project and share with the community! This tutorial is going to go over how to make a custom Fritzing part in the Fritzing (New) Parts Editor, starting from the beginning.
Do You Need to Make a Custom Fritzing Part?
Fritzing comes with tons of electronic parts already installed with the software. SparkFun also has a Fritzing Github repo for housing parts we've created not already in Fritzing. Before creating your own part, double check to see if it exists in those two locations or if another Fritzing user already made the part you need on the Fritzing forum. It will save you a lot of time if the part is already made! However, if you're certain that the part you need doesn't live in Fritzing land already, read on!
Suggested Reading
This tutorial assumes that you are already familiar with Adobe Illustrator, Inscape, or both. Using these programs is beyond the scope of this tutorial. If you need more info on how to use eithwer of these programs, their respective websites should have lots of tutorials and guides on how to get started with vector graphics. If that fails, there's always Google.
Here are other related tutorials you may want to check out before reading this one:
- PCB Basics
- Integrated Circuits (ICs)
- Connector Basics
- Using GitHub
- How to Use a Breadboard
- How to Read a Schematic