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Third-party Inkscape extensions can be used to import additional file formats.

The availability of some import file formats depends on other programs installed on your computer. And it is open source!Ī quick look around the web tells me that the open source XCircuit and CADsoft’s Eagle are also used “widely” for schematic drawings. Inkscape can import and open a large variety of file formats. While layers can be tricky and learning curve is steep, it can do pretty much any schematic drawing, unless you are an engineer designing actual circuit boards (see some nifty examples here). While it does not meet (at least) one of the above requirements, it is a fairly powerful and easy-to-use software.Īnother excellent option, especially if you do not care about GUI, is using LaTeX’s pgf and tikz packages. I would recommend OmniGraffle, which costs $59.95 for the Standard and $119.95 for the Pro version for a single-user license with educational discount (along with a free two-week trial period), for Mac users.

include other graphics (both vector and pixel) as input elements.

be able to organize each item in a layer.

have binary/compilable versions for all major platforms.

Ideally, Matthew would like the package to I’ve been using xfig for all my “hand drawn” plots, but I wonder if anyone has successfully moved on to more recent drawing packages … to draw simple figures like optical layouts or circuit diagrams, where freehand drawing is not good enough and you want text boxes with aligned text in them, something similar to Inkscape. What vector graphics drawing package do you use for your figures?

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