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Pulse Cloud:
Hello,
I need to be able to create publication quality circuit diagrams, i.e., I need something to make beautiful schematics.

I've spent the whole darn day trying to get Circuit Macros to work, but I just can't and I'm so mad I could smash every wall in my house with my bare fists.
Look at how beautiful these are. And you can make them PostScript or PDF or whatever you want - which is great for LaTeX.


Now, is there some program that can make stuff like that?
Preferably something easy to use: even though Circuit Macros looks great, it's all programming - which is harder than using a WYSIWYG package...



Thank you.
BTW: This is extremely urgent...

Jon Chandler:
You might look at TinyCAD.  It's open source and pretty simple to use.

Here's a brief writeup I posted at Digital-DIY.  You can see some examples of its output there:

TinyCAD - An Open Source Schematic Capture Program

Pulse Cloud:
Thank you, Jon, but the output of the program you linked to looks too much like the output of other packages like Altium Designer, EAGLE, et al.

I rather want something that would look great on an article published by some AAA magazine or journal or whatever - like Circuit Macros (why can't I get it to work ffs!?).

amspire:
What you are after is a 60's textbook style that is not practical in normal use now, because we just have to cram so much more detail in a schematic.

You can get exactly the style you want using any 2D Cad package. You may have to make your own component models, but there are libraries available for programs like Autocad, and some may be done in the style you want.  Once you have a library of models, you can draw circuits in a good 2D Cad program almost as easy as a Schematic capture program. You just won't get things like netlist generation that the Schematic packages do so easily. (Not completely true - there have been Autocad packages configured for PCB design with netlist generation, but they tend to be not great.)

There are many low cost or free alternatives to Autocad, and they would be fine for this as it is a basic task.  All you need is a way to do a high quality render print to Postscript and bitmap image.

Richard

Pulse Cloud:
@amspire: Well, which program did they use to make those 60's textbook style schematics? (hah)

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