What are the best software's to draw high quality electronic circuit diagrams ? The diagrams should be of publication quality. Looking for open source or free tools.
To draw any kind of diagram and circuits, you can use XFIG in latex platform.
xcircuit doesn't give high quality circuit diagram. output of xcircuit is in JPG format whereas xfig gives in EPS format which is mostly used format by research community.
Thank you
In my personal experience, the best software to get high-resolution images suitable to be included in scientific paper is Microsoft Visio.
I use Microsoft Word. It takes some time to build the symbols but for the typical circuit diagram used in an article, it is not to bad. Easiest way to create the symbol is to find a picture of the symbol you want then draw over it at 500%. After you draw it, group it, move it off the picture then delete the picture. That way you can shrink to size and rotate your symbol at will. All the other functionality of a CAD is cantained with in Word. To make life easier be sure to save the file as a .doc (older format) which makes manipulation easier in the future. The beauty is that all is done within Word so there are no nasty compatibility issues and the diagram can be edited at any time in the event changes are necessary. Finally, create a document called Word symbols. Save all created symbols so they can be reused.
Dear Rohith.
For drawing high quality circuit schematics, I would suggest you to take a chance on the latex+circuitikz suite. First steps with these tools might be hard to follow, but once you master it, the results are quite impressive.
Here you have some examples: http://texample.net/tikz/examples/circuitikz/. If you are latex user, you will find it rather simple.
Thank you dear Fernando.
I have attended few latex workshop and the software is impressive. I will surely try your suggestion.
Thanks,
Rohith
LTspice schematic is good. Tools-->copy bitmap to clipboard. Then paste it in word.
Also Microsoft Office Visio is good by saving the final schematic as .emz.
Moreover, Visio helps to improve the quality of plot from LTspice or PSpice as in the following links:
Research Export LTspice Figure to Visio
and
Research Enhance PSpice figure using Visio
Also Sapwin4 is a free software for basic circuit element
Copy to clipboard
to download it:
http://cirlab.dinfo.unifi.it/Sapwin4/
Thank you very much Dear Cander Smat for your valuable response. I will surely try them.
If you don't mind something for free, try http://www.designsim.com.au/GEX.html
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Dia is one of the simple tool where you can draw all kind of diagrams.
You can try Xcircuit. It is open source and easy to learn to use. Also, it produces publishable quality circuits.
Also you can use Scheme-it which is an online schematic and diagramming tool that allows anyone to design and share electronic circuit diagrams.
https://www.digikey.com/schemeit/project/
https://www.scribd.com/document/444056082/Scheme-it-Digi-Key
One can use AutoCAD for drawing high-quality electronic circuits.
Microsoft Visio is great, you can draw anything from zero to hundred. After you draw the circuits, if you need a high quality electronics circuits diagram it is better to save the file with “.emf” format.
Emf: Enhanced Metafile
In the attached file you can see an example circuit.
Microsoft Visio is great. However, you can try CorelDraw. Please find attached the file for the example circuit schematic made in CorelDraw.
So how do you get a simulation netlist out of CorelDraw or MS Visio?
Visio and CorelDraw are meant for presentation purpose (journal paper, conference presentation, thesis,..). The real work is conducted in Cadence for example, where you can get schematic and netlist as well. But, oh boy, schematics from Cadence are very bad for presentation purposes. It is literally "no-go".
draw.io is one of web based imaging application. Can export into various format like .jpg /.png/.vsdx etc
@Ambika Prasad Shah, while exporting the diagram drawn in Dia, I observe that different formats give significantly different quality. Which format do you recommend?
Hi
I used MicroCap demo version to draw my circuits and HSPICE for simulations results.
I print the circuits as PDF with high resolution 600 dpi using free primo software.
you can check the resolutions of the figures in my IEEE ACCESS paper.
If there is a better one, tell me about it.
Best regards
Among all the options of drawing electronic circuits...I am using Corel draw for that purpose because of its extreme clarity.
Dear all,
I experienced using Corel draw and Microsoft Visio, both are good in producing publication-quality diagrams.
Visio is the best tool, I will recommend for this. If you need this crack version software, I can provide.
Microsoft Visio is the best tool to draw the circuit diagrams, block diagrams and flow chart related to Paper publications. For data analysis and graph I would like to suggest Origin software tool.
Microsoft Visio, Corel draw are the most widely used ones. However online you can also draw using drawio.com. The progress can be saved and downloaded as file and latter can be modified
Microsoft Vision and Corel Draw are the best tools to design Electronic Circuits
Dear academician,
Online teaching (multisim)
esim, tinkercad circuits
Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Powerpoint are the easiest tools to draw high-quality figures.
I suggest you try using CircuiTikZ package which utilizes Latex. It is a great tool to draw circuit diagrams and a great tutorial is in this link:
https://latexdraw.com/draw-a-logic-circuit-in-circuitikz/
For me, it doesn't end with a pretty diagram. I need a simulator netlist, so the tool needs to convert the diagram to one.
Hi I used MIcroCAP V12 is free now
https://www.spectrum-soft.com/download/download.shtm
you can print your circuits as PDF in High resolution
Dear Rohith R Krishnan,
You can use Microsoft Visio and follow the link below for other tools
1. https://www.circuitstoday.com/electronics-circuit-drawing-softwares
Dear Rohith R Krishnan
You can use Microsoft Visio and follow the link below for other tools
1. https://www.circuitstoday.com/electronics-circuit-drawing-softwares
There are many good software
Pruteus
NI Multisim
OrCAD
Altium Designer etc.
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