# Make Beautiful Fritzing Parts with eagle2fritzing

## Overview

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/640/medium800/maker_business_Untitled_Sketch_bb.png?1467763838)

If you design maker hardware - you'll find investing in Fritzing objects to be an excellent method for encouraging projects. It'll also make your documentation look really nice.

Fritzing is an open source CAD-like graphical software for all operating systems that allows full interaction between breadboard, schematic and PCB views. Customers or other enthusiasts can wire up breadboard diagrams and then turn that into a schematic and even a finished PCB!

For example, here's a demo of the part we'll be making, wired to an Arduino and buzzer in breadboard view:

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/644/medium800/maker_business_fritz.png?1467764081)

And the corresponding schematic & PCB views

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/645/medium800/maker_business_fritzschem.png?1467764131)

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/646/medium800/maker_business_fritzpcb.png?1467764142)

The idea is great but the _making_ of those lovely objects is not easy. Here's some tutorials on how to make objects from scratch:

- [Sparkfun's Make your own Fritzing Part](https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/make-your-own-fritzing-parts)
- [Details on the Fritzing Parts Editor](http://blog.fritzing.org/2012/10/09/new-parts-editor-released/)
- [Fritzing's tutorials (some are out of date) lots of links there too!](http://fritzing.org/learning/tutorials/creating-custom-parts/)

These are all good for making custom parts but wouldn't it be really cool if we could take this:

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/647/medium800/maker_business_eagle.png?1467764345)

A PCB file in EagleCAD format...and wave a magic wand to turn it into something like this?

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/648/medium800/maker_business_mvoed.png?1467764402)

A perfect 1:1 part, based on the CAD file?

### WELL YOU CAN! (sorta)

Using the fancy eagle2fritzing project by Fritzing team and the excessive effort of&nbsp;[PaintYourDragon](../../../../users/pburgess) who wrassled with the code and got it into a really good spot!

Warning: 

Danger: 

# Make Beautiful Fritzing Parts with eagle2fritzing

## Get Ready: Download Fritzing

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/650/medium800/maker_business_logo.png?1467825994)

Of course you'll need to download the Fritzing desktop app in order to try out the parts!

You can download the latest version from [http://fritzing.org/download/](http://fritzing.org/download/)

# Make Beautiful Fritzing Parts with eagle2fritzing

## Get Ready: Git Clone

Your first step is to create the directory where you will _work_ - its where both code and parts live. This assumes you are using **git** but you could in theory just download them. If you do use git, you can fork and submit pull requests for subparts and more. We don't cover git here, its assumed you know how to use it.

# Step 1 Parent folder

Create a new parent folder anywhere you like

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/560/medium800/maker_business_parent.png?1467746356)

Clone [https://github.com/adafruit/eagle2fritzing](https://github.com/adafruit/eagle2fritzing) into that directory

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/561/medium800/maker_business_eagle2fritz.png?1467746430)

Clone [https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app](https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app) into the same directory

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/562/medium800/maker_business_eagle2fritz.png?1467746500)

# Make Beautiful Fritzing Parts with eagle2fritzing

## Get Ready: Fonts

A nice realism of the Fritzing converter is it takes all the silkscreen text and orients it in the right location for you and in the right size

However, without the right font, your part will default to a rounded sans serif:

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/536/medium800/maker_business_prefont.png?1467477348)

You can find the right fonts in the **fritzing-app/resources/fonts** folder

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/535/medium800/maker_business_fontlocation.png?1467477307)

You can also download the zip with fonts from [http://fritzing.org/fritzings-graphic-standards/download-fonts-and-templates](http://fritzing.org/fritzings-graphic-standards/download-fonts-and-templates)

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/537/medium800/maker_business_downloadzip.png?1467477423)

Install all four TrueType (TTF) fonts!

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/538/medium800/maker_business_install.png?1467477541)

You don't have to regenerate the svg, but you may need to restart inkscape

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/539/medium800/maker_business_nicefont.png?1467477637)

# Make Beautiful Fritzing Parts with eagle2fritzing

## Get Ready: Inkscape

You will need to edit some SVGs and the best tool we've found for that is Inkscape. You could also use CorelDraw or Illustrator but Inkscape works really well and once you get the flow down is very quick.

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/558/medium800/maker_business_inkscape_logo_300x300.png?1467746158)

You can download it from [https://inkscape.org/](https://inkscape.org/)

It's available in binary format for _all operating systems! Yay!_

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/559/medium800/maker_business_inks.png?1467746218)

# Make Beautiful Fritzing Parts with eagle2fritzing

## Get Ready: Qt Creator IDE

We have precompiled executables but if you're not using Windows 7 64 bit you may need to recompile the brd2svg program. This program is written in Qt!

_We told you this would be fun right?_

You can grab the compiler/IDE from [https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/](https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/)

You can skip the Qt account setup part

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/563/medium800/maker_business_skipqt.png?1467746865)

Once installed, run Qt Creator

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/564/medium800/maker_business_qtcreator.png?1467746905)

Open up the project:

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/567/medium800/maker_business_openproj.png?1467747058)

And open **brd2svg.pro** in the **eagle2fritzing/brd2svg** folder

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/566/medium800/maker_business_proj.png?1467747039)

Select **Release build** mode

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/574/medium800/maker_business_buildrelease.png?1467748220)

Build the project

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/568/medium800/maker_business_buildproj.png?1467747140)

You may get warnings, thats OK - the software is still 'in progess'

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/571/medium800/maker_business_issuesok.png?1467747826)

Once done you'll have a new build directory:

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/575/medium800/maker_business_debugrelease.png?1467748231)

which inside the **release** directory you'll find your **brd2svg** executable. Drag this into the **eagle2fritzing/brd2svg** directory.

If you run it you may get complaints about missing DLL's

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/576/medium800/maker_business_dll.png?1467748286)

You can find these at **C:\Qt\5.6\mingw49\_32\bin**

Just drag one at a time until you can run it without complaint

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/577/medium800/maker_business_alldll.png?1467748426)

Then from within a terminal command line you can run the tool. It will complain it needs files. This is OK! If you get this warning, you can move to the next step

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/578/medium800/maker_business_runbrd2svg.png?1467748475)

# Make Beautiful Fritzing Parts with eagle2fritzing

## Get Ready: run.py edits

We have helpers on top of helpers to get the EagleCAD board file -\> XML -\> FPZ

The runner is a program that will set up&nbsp; your command line and do preprocessing for you. Edit **run.py** in the **brd2svg** directory:

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/579/medium800/maker_business_runpy.png?1467749426)

You'll definitely need to edit the **EXECPATH** to where eaglecad lives on your computer

You can also change WORKPATH later if you need

Now, finally, we can run this tool! ARE YOU READY?

# Make Beautiful Fritzing Parts with eagle2fritzing

## Run!

Create your **FritzingTest** work folder in **brd2svg** and create a **brds** folder inside of that.

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/585/medium800/maker_business_fritzingwork.png?1467750042)

Add a **brd** file, in this case lets do the DRV2605 Breakout:

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/582/medium800/maker_business_2305-01.jpg?1467749704)

[The PCB files are in GitHub here](https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-DRV2605-PCB)

You don't need to add the **SCH** file. Also, note that the board file will be modified so only work on a _copy_ of your board file!

Warning: 

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/586/medium800/maker_business_brdfile.png?1467750050)

Run **python run.py** in the brd2svg directory. It will run the preprocessor and application once or twice:

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/587/medium800/maker_business_runned.png?1467750186)

You'll now have all the part files in **FritzingTest**

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/588/medium800/maker_business_alldirs.png?1467750227)

# Make Beautiful Fritzing Parts with eagle2fritzing

## Check and customize PCB View

Warning: 

We suggest working 'backwards' - getting PCB view to be exactly the way you like, then working back to the breadboard view.

Open the PCB view SVG in the **FritzingTest/parts/svg/contrib/pcb**

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/589/medium800/maker_business_pcbsvg.png?1467750323)

It'll look a little like:

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/590/medium800/maker_business_pcbview.png?1467750388)

Since the lines are in white, you will want to change the background color. Open up the Document details with **Control-Shift-D**

Select **Background Color** and change it to black

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/591/medium800/maker_business_backgroundcolor.png?1467750517)

To see all the outlines:

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/592/medium800/maker_business_blackin.png?1467750545)

I would like the mounting holes to appear. To do that, you'll need to edit the part parameters and re-run the tool.

Edit **FritzingTest/params/part.params** and find the **connector** that ties to the mounting holes. The holes aren't actually connectors but this is the easiest way to do it

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/593/medium800/maker_business_unusedmnt.png?1467751690)

Move those out from the `<unused>` XML element into a new element you have to create called something like `<mnt>` (it can be anything really)

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/594/medium800/maker_business_mntmoved.png?1467751752)

Save the params file and rerun the tool. It's also good to make a backup in case!

Mounting holes will appear

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/596/medium800/maker_business_mounts.png?1467751853)

Editing the silkscreen is a little more advanced and isn't covered here. Basically make sure that all the silkscreen is in a group with **id=silkscreen** It's best to use the XML editor, use **Shift-Ctrl-X** to bring it up

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/597/medium800/maker_business_xmlsilk.png?1467751959)

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# Make Beautiful Fritzing Parts with eagle2fritzing

## Check and customize Schematic View

Once PCB view is in a good spot you can check the schematic svg. It is in **FritzingTest\parts\svg\contrib\schematic**

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/599/medium800/maker_business_schem1.png?1467752079)

You'll notice that the svg converter is smart enough to make pins for all the **through hole pads** but did not create pins for the SMT motor pins

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/600/medium800/maker_business_2305-01.jpg?1467752132)

You can add 'missing' connectors easily. Go to **params** file again to find the two pads that are used for the motor:

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/601/medium800/maker_business_motorconn.png?1467752196)

Cut these lines and place them in the group above, in the \<left\> xml group, that will put the pins on the left side.

Now is also a good time to rearrange the pin orders if you want them to appear in the schematic in a certain location or order

Warning: 

Rerun the tool to regen the schematic

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/602/medium800/maker_business_newschem.png?1467752361)

You _can_ hand edit the schematic and move around pins, but you'll need to reassign the pins later, just keep eveything on a 0.1" boundary to keep with convention. Since Fritzing isn't known as a hardcore schematic capture program we don't spend a ton of time on it.

You can edit the name/labels of the pins easily. Just make a backup because you'll rerun the tool to get breadboard view right, which will overwrite your changes! We find it a lot easier to update the signal names directly in EagleCAD, that way you aren't editing signal names in multiple SVGs

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# Make Beautiful Fritzing Parts with eagle2fritzing

## Check and Customize Breadboard View

Now you are ready for the real fun - creating the breadboard view!

Open up the SVG in **FritzingTest\parts\svg\contrib\breadboard**

There's a large number of Things That Can Go Wrong. We'll cover as much as we can but you may have to do some of your own experimentation. You'll almost certainly need to do cleanup, but it wont be&nbsp;_too_ bad!

# Missing Subparts

First thing you'll possibly deal with is missing sub-parts:

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/603/medium800/maker_business_brd1.png?1467754939)

You can look at the output of **brd2svg** to see which parts were found and which were not

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/605/medium800/maker_business_subpartnotfound.png?1467755091)

In this case, **psop10** is the package that was not found. All the sub-components for your design are stored in **eagle2fritzing\subparts**

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/604/medium800/maker_business_subparts.png?1467755024)

Not surprisingly, they are _also_ all SVG! You can see in this example that we have an msop08 which is similar to a psop10 but not quite.

Lets create a new part. You can adjust an old part or start from scratch in Inkscape

Info: 

# Create a new SubPart with Inkscape

Start by opening up the Document settings (Ctrl-Shift-D) and setting the default units to mm (or inches on the off chance you have an inches-based part)

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/607/medium800/maker_business_mm.png?1467755295)

Check the datasheet for a diagram, which is handy even if you can't directly use it since it has all the measurements.

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/608/medium800/maker_business_pkgdiagram.png?1467755386)

In this case we see the body is 3mm wide by about 5mm tall, set the size of the document to that size!

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/609/medium800/maker_business_dims.png?1467755433)

You can also open up the datasheet in Inkscape (forward it to the right page) and see if you can extract the diagram. This usually doesnt quite work but it can sometimes help to trace out the part

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/610/medium800/maker_business_opendatasheet.png?1467755504)

Anyways, do what you need to in order to draw the part in perfect scale!

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/611/medium800/maker_business_drawn.png?1467755872)

And save it in **subparts/breadboard**

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/612/medium800/maker_business_psopmade.png?1467755946)

Rerun the tool, it will have found that part (if not check spelling and that you put it in the right location!)

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/613/medium800/maker_business_psopfound.png?1467755980)

# Moving Subparts

Often times the exact center isn't lined up. However it's very easy to fix.

Danger: 

Ungroup the object

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/614/medium800/maker_business_ungroup.png?1467756209)

And move or remove anything you want

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/615/medium800/maker_business_mvoed.png?1467756250)

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/616/medium800/maker_business_remove.png?1467756278)

# PCB Color

This is an easy one, but don't forget to change your PCB main polygon to the color you want

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/617/medium800/maker_business_pcbfile.png?1467756472)

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# Make Beautiful Fritzing Parts with eagle2fritzing

## Edit and Fix Fritzing File

OK you are so close to done! Next up we will use the Fritzing Part Editor to really clean it up and fix everything.

In your **Documents/Fritzing/parts** folder is where the Fritzing App stores all your custom parts.

To make it easy and clean to handle revisions we suggest deleting everything in this folder (make a backup) since otherwise you may end up with multiple versions of the file you're making and just trust us it gets very confusing.

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/618/medium800/maker_business_deleteparts.png?1467756695)

Copy over the **contrib** and **svg** folders from **eagle2fritzing/brd2svg/FritzingTest/parts** into your **Documents/Fritzing/parts** folder

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/619/medium800/maker_business_copyparts.png?1467756853)

Now start up Fritzing, you'll get a complaint about swapping, just ignore it.

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/620/medium800/maker_business_family.png?1467756888)

Once open, in the **Parts** pane, search for the part and right click to edit

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/622/medium800/maker_business_editpart.png?1467761013)

# Breadboard Pin Gender

When you edit the part, the first tab is Breadboard view. It should look very familiar!

What's nice is each signal is already in the right hand pane and as you click on it you'll get information about that signal and a highlight of the SVG element that is the contact point

The contacts should all be in the right place. For breadboarding parts I prefer to set the gender of all the pins to **Male** - that way they will 'lock' into a solderless breadboard. Go through all the pads and click male for all **breadboard** pins

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/623/medium800/maker_business_bbpins.png?1467761060)

For the two SMT pads, you can set the connection type to **Pad** so it wont lock into a breadboard

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/624/medium800/maker_business_pad.png?1467761177)

There's also the extra mounting hole pads. They're not actually pads but its how we got them to appear in the breadboard view. To fix that...

# Removing Extra Connections

You can remove the extra connectors from within the **Connectors** tab. Scroll to the bottom and carefully remove the correct connections!

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/625/medium800/maker_business_killcons.png?1467761655)

# PCB View Review

You can now go through PCB view, check every connection and make sure they go to the right pad. If they're wrong use the **Select Graphic** button next to the connection in the Connector List to click on the SVG element that is the connection for that signal.

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/626/medium800/maker_business_checkpcbview.png?1467761873)

Note that the OUT- and OUT+ end up as pads on the PCB, not sure there's a way around this in order to keep the schematic and breadboard view connections. Fritzing isn't a hardcore CAD package, tradeoffs abound!

# Schematic View Review

You can also review the Schematic view. Go through each connection in the schematic and verify its correct

One thing I've noticed if you've made hand edits to the schematic SVG (and even if you haven't) it's nice to select the terminal point for each connection

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/627/medium800/maker_business_schemview.png?1467762041)

- For all the connections on the **right side** use **East**
- For all the connections on the **left side** use **West**
- For all the connections on the **top side** use **North**
- For all the connections on the **bottom side** use **South**

This will make wires that connect to the terminals come out of the end of the pin for a nice look!

# Metadata

Finally, put in the meta data for the part, including a description, URL, part number, etc!

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/628/medium800/maker_business_metadata.png?1467762234)

# Make Beautiful Fritzing Parts with eagle2fritzing

## Terminal Blocks

Since we use terminal blocks a lot, this will come up from time to time. After adding the terminal block to the param file so they show up as a connection, you'll get them in the breadboard view but the connection point is the screw on top

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/667/medium800/maker_business_termblock.png?1467836180)

Use the **Select graphic** button to select the output port of the terminal block instead:

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/668/medium800/maker_business_termblock2.png?1467836208)

# Make Beautiful Fritzing Parts with eagle2fritzing

## Test, Export, and Re-Edit Part

Finally, save your part and give it a prefix for parts that you've made (you can use anything to help you identify it)

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/629/medium800/maker_business_prefix.png?1467762293)

Close the parts editor and in the **parts** tab _do another search_ to find your part again, you may have multiple versions so locate the final part you worked on

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/630/medium800/maker_business_realpart.png?1467762387)

You can now try out your part, try connecting it to various other devices to make a circuit that uses all the pads

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/635/medium800/maker_business_fritz.png?1467762864)

Be sure to also check out the schematic view (looks like the UNO has a weird icsp mistake but the DRV2605L is right!)

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/636/medium800/maker_business_fritzschem.png?1467762931)

and the PCB view

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/637/medium800/maker_business_fritzpcb.png?1467763070)

You can still continue to edit the part, and do _most_ anything that doesnt require editing a raw svg

# Export Fritzing Part

Right click to export it

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/631/medium800/maker_business_exportpart.png?1467762421)

Save it somewhere safe!

Now quit Fritzing and re-delete all the subfolders in your **Documents/Fritzing/parts** folder again

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/632/medium800/maker_business_deleteparts.png?1467762500)

Now that you've cleared out all your partial edits, you can relaunch Fritzing. You'll get complaints that files are missing, that's OK! Just ignore them

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/633/medium800/maker_business_complaints.png?1467762594)

Open that **fpzp** file you saved earlier, the part will now appear in your **My Parts** bin!

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/634/medium800/maker_business_myparts.png?1467762655)

# Editing Post-Creation

OK so after some time you realize you want to tweak something with the part. **You don't have to start over!**

Export the part to a **fzpz** file, copy it and rename the copy with **.zip** instead of **.fzpz**

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/033/638/medium800/maker_business_zip.png?1467763271)

Inside, you'll find all those SVGs again! You can edit the svg carefully and place it back in the zip, then rename it to .fzpz again.

You may need to remove the part from your **My Parts** bin and re-import it. You may also need to delete all the parts from your **Documents/Fritzing/parts** folder since Fritzing throws a fit if you have two parts with the same name

# Make Beautiful Fritzing Parts with eagle2fritzing

## Best Practices!

# Rename file before conversion!

The text inside of the schematic view will match the file name, you can edit this later in Inkscape but its nicer to do it beforehand so rename it to something nice like 'Adafruit Flora Bluefruit' (no revision number, etc)

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/034/588/medium800/maker_business_schemname.png?1470417506)

# Remove pin numbers

For some reason sometimes schematic view has pin/id numbers on the schematic. You can ungroup and just remove these

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/034/589/medium800/maker_business_schemname.png?1470417553)

# Rename Signals in Eagle

Instead of changing the names of signals in Inkscape/Fritzing you can just do it in EagleCAD

Ideally, rename signals so that they match what the silkscreen says

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/034/592/medium800/maker_business_name.png?1470418415)

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/034/594/medium800/maker_business_name.png?1470418447)

# Rearrange pins in schematic

After you run the **run.py** generator once, you will create a **params** file in **FritzingTest/params** - its a text file, just open with any text editor. This is the file that is used to create the schematic and such. Once it is generated, you can edit it. This is good for _rearranging pins_ in the schematic. Say if you want to make all the inputs on the left, and the outputs on the right, find the **\<left\>\</left\>** and **\<right\>\</right\>** section. Each line indicates a signal, you can copy and paste to move signals from side to side. You can also move pins up to the top ( **\<power\>\</power\>** ) or bottom ( **\<ground\>\<ground\>**

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/034/856/medium800/maker_business_reorder.png?1471454907)


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