Hello, human being. Are you interested in using Fritzing for a project, and just bumped into the fact that a part you'd like to use does not exist? That happens a lot, it turns out. It also turns out that the templates provided by fritzing.org, while well meaning, are pretty terrible. So I made new ones that are much better.

Open up each SVG in Inkscape. Design your part all three ways. Import your modified SVGs into Fritzing to assign pins and stuff like that.

• a warm neutral background that mimicks the off-white of a breadboard
• all units set to inches
• a DIP grid that you can turn on or off
• snapping settings that make lining up with the grid excellent
• example box that gets the job done with minimal complexity
• pins made of single strokes
• pins on their own top layer so you won't have trouble selecting them later

• not-white background so you can see your white-filled shapes
• document units set to inches (no one explains these things)
• line width units in pixels (1px is the standard)
• 0.1in grid that actually matches the schematic view
• a boring default square you can use or delete
• a couple boring lines with rounded caps you can use, duplicate, or delete
• pins on their own layer so you won't have trouble selecting them later

• see the major groups in the layers panel
• helper objects for drilling inside of front copper or rear copper
• lots of grids for various package sizes, all named