JPWiedemann
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2 weeks ago While schemdraw looks pretty good on its own, I don't see the particular use case to export to schemdraw from our GUI. Maybe you can go more into detail why a schemdraw export would be a great addition to the GUI and what a concrete use case would be? For now, I have the following thoughts on a schemdraw export feature:
- If you just want to draw circuits and insert them into your document, you already have that possibility in the GUI. Tikz and svg exports are already available, so no reason to add the extra step to go to schemdraw. You can use the tikz code in your latex documents and svg nearly everywhere else and worse case: convert the svg to an image format you can use if neither svg nor tikz are available where you want to show the circuit.
- Schemdraw circuit elements might look slightly different to the circuitikz elements. This introduces massive problems for the GUI since what you see in the GUI will not be what you get when exporting to schemdraw. This is also the reason why we started this GUI in the first place. Originally, we just wanted to automatically convert the circuits from some EDA tool like ADS to circuitikz directly, but the elements have different dimensions which makes this nearly impossible, so a GUI based on the circuitikz symbols it is.
- If you are not happy with the circuits drawn in the GUI, you can always fine tune the exported tikz or svg code to your liking later on. (For example adjust line colors or thickness, adjust some symbol parameters, add ctikzset statements and so on)
hpretl
schemdraw(https://schemdraw.readthedocs.io) is a Python package for circuit drawing, similar to circuitikz in Latex. I am not sure how feasible this would be, but your GUI could be quite interesting to create source files for it.