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grbk:

--- Quote from: Dave on September 16, 2019, 08:24:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on September 16, 2019, 08:09:05 pm ---Something to consider: if you want to produce schematics that will not look like crap aliased shit in a book/PDF, use software that can export them to a vectorial format, such as SVG or EPS.
Bitmap schematics in anything you publish are really ugly IMO. On forums they are OK. ;D

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Having just finished writing my master's thesis with all vectorized schematics, I concur. :-+

I used circuitikz for latex. It requires quite a bit of fiddling to get things just right (for my taste), but it's well worth the dicking around.
Here's a bitmap (;D) of my vector image.

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I also like circuitikz a lot. The results look great.

However, when I was using it a lot for reports in college, I found it was easy to sink an ungodly amount of time into getting your schematics to look perfect, especially when there were more important things to take care of (namely writing the text of the report...)!  ::)

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Dave on September 16, 2019, 08:24:15 pm ---I used circuitikz for latex. It requires quite a bit of fiddling to get things just right (for my taste), but it's well worth the dicking around.
Here's a bitmap (;D) of my vector image.

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Oh, for people using Latex (I do  ;D ), it's great indeed.

ledtester:

--- Quote from: grbk on September 16, 2019, 09:03:11 pm ---
I also like circuitikz a lot. The results look great.

However, when I was using it a lot for reports in college, I found it was easy to sink an ungodly amount of time into getting your schematics to look perfect, especially when there were more important things to take care of (namely writing the text of the report...)!  ::)

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circuitikz looks cool:

https://youtu.be/WRTELZP1l0Y

Haven't tried it out, but here's an ltspice to circuitikz conversion tool:

https://github.com/ckuhlmann/lt2circuitikz

techman-001:

--- Quote from: kelemvor on September 16, 2019, 05:48:44 pm ---Greetings, earthlings!

I'd like to draw the schematics in a program, then paste the schematic into the document. Perhaps even embed the schematic file its-self.

All of that leading up to my actual question....drum roll....

What program should I use to create the schematic? Free is important. 

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Greetings,

I use gSCHEM which is a Free, GPL'd, easy to use Schematic Capture program. Should you ever need to design a PCB, generate a SPICE netlist, gEDA can do that as well. gEDA has a wealth of tutorials and documentation.

You don't see gEDA recommended here much, but it is the first decent GPL'd schematic capture EDA ever available on the net in my opinion.

The gEDA project was started by Ales Hvezda in an effort to remedy the lack of free software EDA tools for Linux/UNIX. The first software was released on 1 April 1998, and included a schematic capture program (gSCHEM) and a netlister.

gEDA official homepage: http://www.geda-project.org/

I've attached a gSCHEM and PCB demo I made back in 2000 for your viewing pleasure :)

TheUnnamedNewbie:
If you are drawing circuits for publication and documentation, my experience is that it is best to use a vector-graphics illustration program like Adobe Illustrator, GNU Inkscape, Affinity Designer. Some of my colleagues like Visio, but I don't like it that much.

I swear by Illustrator, being wrapped up in the Adobe tool-chain for other stuff too, and I get faster results than many of my friends do using actual software built for the job. The main hassle is the symbol library (as Illustrator has none) but that is something you can get over quite fast.

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