How To Create Professional Looking Circuit Schematics Easily Using Inkscape

[@ahmedawny7236]

Thanks a lot for this video and the library. It makes drawing schematics in inkscape really easy and they look very professional at the end

[@PieMaster2425]

This is amazing! Thank you for this!

[@colinmurphy6061]

Thanks so much, your generosity is both remarkable and wonderful!

[@geekPlayground]

Perfect, thanks ! This gave me a crazy idea. It would be nice to do some kind of script that accepted a cadence schematic and generated a figure with the library from CircuiTikz, either generating CircuiTikz code or another language. Maybe we can get, somehow, the coordinates of each element on a cadence schematic and make use of that information. As a last resort we could use the netlist .... or develop some AI algorithm that could recognise the elements in a circuit and generate CircuiTikz code. I think I will put some thought on this! Thanks

[@caiarcosbotias1710]

Hi! I was wondering if you could do a tutorial on how to add additional symbols (in my case, I need to add a JFET symbol). Great tutorial!!

[@arshamshayan]

Thanks for the library!!

[@marcos3865]

Extremely useful video, I have a question: is it possible to go back to the cuircuiTikZ code once the circuit has been drawn on Inkscape? So that I can copy and paste the source code directly into the main Overleaf code. In any case, having the possibility to draw the circuit and then have a pdf file to load into the LaTeX file is still super useful, but at least if there was also the chance to draw the circuit in the way you show and than know the code behind what we drew it could be useful both to learn how cuircuiTikZ thinks and also to not have to save the result in a pdf. Thank you very much, maybe my question is quite stupid, anyway really nice and smart video!

[@usefulknowledge6074]

Unfortunately, this doesn't have that functionality. There is some tool that addresses your questions, but I can't remember the name right now. Basically, you draw the circuit in LTSpice and it converts the LTSpice file into CircuitTikz. I tried it and it works but wasn't too happy about the spacing between components. Also, it was a bit hard to modify. Check it out. Maybe it meets your needs.

[@marcos3865]

@@usefulknowledge6074 thank you for your answer. if it is not a problem I would like to ask you two more things: as I am not very good at Inscape I am unable to move objects by following the squares in a discrete way. when I insert a symbol it can move freely in any position, without fitting perfectly into the vertices of the grigiline squares. Furthermore, when I add a line I cannot see the connection point with a symbol. do I have to activate some option in the settings? thank you for your reply.

[@usefulknowledge6074]

@@marcos3865 The questions you asked are probably related to "snapping", which you need to turn on to allow objects to snap at nearby connection points. Look for the snapping button or press % to enable it.

[@an1rb]

You can always convert the SVG from Inkscape to PNG or JPEG (with correct resolution) and use in LaTeX as an image.

[@forgetpwnow]

i have difficulty to snap the symbol into grids thus the lines are all not straight and seems ugly. what is your setup for snapping?

[@sambathbunkh]

very best sharing nice to meet you.

[@iremsnmaz1644]

Hi, thanks for the tutorial. I have a problem in exporting the file in .svg format, in the circuit i drew voltage sources are not displayed, but in Inkscape there is no error and everything looks smoothly. I tried it on a new file and delete the DC and AC sources in the existing circuit but it does not working.

[@usefulknowledge6074]

The circuit looks fine on inkscape, but when you export it to pdf, something is wrong? I don't exactly understand the problem. Explain your issue more clearly, otherwise I may not be able to help.

[@iremsnmaz1644]

@@usefulknowledge6074 The circuit looks fine on inkscape, but when i export it in .svg format, voltage sources are not visible.

[@iremsnmaz1644]

@@usefulknowledge6074 It is solved when i "Unlink Clone" of all components :)

[@usefulknowledge6074]

@@iremsnmaz1644 Nice!

[@berilyilmaz5177]

@@iremsnmaz1644 Sağol ben de sayende yaptım

[@modalinterchange8359]

The github link does not work anymore

[@modalinterchange8359]

you explained the process for transporting the files on linux but what about windows?

[@kevingpearce]

Did you ever get a reply ? I too am confused about Windows installation of the files. My unpacked zip download is a directory consisting of many various sub-directories and files. Far more folk will be using Windows than Linux for running Inkscape. A good video otherwise, but a shame I cannot yet use it.

[@vandersondelimareis7865]

Me ajudou muito esse vídeo e gostaria de agradecer, muito obrigado. Deixo como sugestão salvar no formato .EPS, para chamar a imagem no latex.

[@Amir-kz6yq]

Would you happen to know the easiest way to add new symbols to the library?

[@usefulknowledge6074]

Just open the SVG file in inkscape, create the symbol that you want, and add it to the symbols. Which symbols do you want to add ?

[@Amir-kz6yq]

@@usefulknowledge6074 Thanks for your reply. I was thinking of a balun(two transformers).

[@midvok3918]

The symbols are very nice, thank you for that. However, the grid snapping in Inkscape (1.3) is so frustrating. It rarely snaps to the grid as expected and often leaves the node off the grid unless you zoom million times to the grid intersections. I've never encountered a program with such a frustrating grid snapping as this Inkscape.

[@billps34]

You can change the snapping options in Inkscape. There are lots of options. Some of the settings such as the Bounding Box option might conflict with snapping to the grid. Switch this option off and it should make snapping easier, also enable the option for Object Rotation Centres and Object Midpoints.

[@midvok3918]

​@@billps34 Thanks, I've found that some options really help to get better snapping. Especially the Bounding Box option which was snapping to the stroke width outline by default. However, there are still so many of unfortunate "features" in Inkscape like that text scales with the group instead of keeping fixed size, no paragraph spacing, no vertical text alignment, no usable object connectors, etc.

[@billps34]

@@midvok3918 Thing is, you need to remember what inkscape is actually for. It's an SVG editor for making scalable vector graphics - and some of those "features" work the way they do because of the constraints of the SVG format itself. For example, there's no paragraph spacing or vertical text alignment in SVG text boxes. Theses concepts just don't exist in SVG. Text formatting is quite limited in SVG, unlike for example in page layout software (Scribus/InDesign etc).

[@modalinterchange8359]

@@billps34Ive been in a conundrum of deciding to use Inkscape or circuitikz to create circuits The problem with Inkscape is each file will need to be created for each circuit which can be an organizational problem Moreover. Circuitikz will be time consuming initially to learn but is embedded into latex and certain figures can be reused

[@stanos1761]

MERCI BEAUCOUP DE TA VIDEO ! JE ME SUIS ABONNE ET JAI MIS UN POUCE BLEU

[@ibrahimcafe9586]

Thank you very much brother

[@ankith6377]

thank you a lot for this