A circuit diagram helps electrical engineers know what to build. Try building simple circuits with your friends and draw diagrams to match what you build. It looks like our battery has run out of ...

QElectroTech is an open source tool for drawing these types of diagrams. It consists of two tools: an element editor for creating schematic symbols and a diagram editor for creating your drawings.

Why is this cool? If you design a PCB in KiCAD, you go through three steps: draw the schematic, assign footprints to the symbolic parts, and then place them. The netlist ties all of these phases ...

When drawing circuit diagrams, rather than drawing detailed components, we use simple symbols to represent the different components.