FidoCadJ - Create your electronic circuits

Friday, 15 January 2010 22:16

FidoCadJ provides you a multiplatform drawing application specially designed for electronics. Schematics and PCB can be easily traced and represented by a very compact text format, easy to embed in a newsgroup post. The drawings can be exported in a multitude of graphic formats e.g. jpg, png, svg, eps, pdf and, very interesting feature;

pgf file format: a vectorial format to be used directly in a LaTeX document, when using the pgf package available in the CTAN archive or visit the package home page here. This exportation option was thought in particular to export schematics and uses an easily editable script. The text attributes will not be translated. This allows the introduction of LaTeX code directly into the drawing;
scr file format: starting from version 0.21, FidoCadJ allows the exportation of a drawing to a script that can be imported in CadSoft Eagle. To use this feature, it is necessary to install the library FidoCadJLIB.lbr into the directory lbr of the current installation of Eagle. The library can be downloaded from FidoCadJ’s website. At the time of writing, this option works only with schematics containing only the most common symbols. Some drawing elements such as pads and tracks are not available yet. These will not be exported to the Eagle script.

Here are some key features of FidoCadJ:

Draw electrical schematics and PCBs;
Export in a variety of graphic formats;
Multi platform;
Easy to use;
Compact text format, for copy/pasting in Usenet messages;
FidoCad compatible.

FidoCadJ is written in the Java programming language and is distributed as a single .jar file to launch with command java -jar name_file.jar. You can download file releases of FidoCadJ project from FidoCadJ’s website.