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FidoCadJ

FidoCadJ is a very easy-to-use editor, with a library of electrical symbols and footprints (through hole and SMD). Drawings can be exported in several graphic formats (PDF, EPS, PGF for LaTeX, SVG, PNG, and JPEG). Although very simple and not relying on any netlist concept, FidoCadJ can be considered a basic electronic design automation program. FidoCadJ uses a file format containing only UTF-8 text, which is very compact and suited for copying and pasting with newsgroups and forum messages. This determined its success, as it is quite versatile for simple mechanical drawings as well as for electronics.

Tags	EDA Electronics PCB Graphics schematics fidocad FidoCadJ
Licenses	GPLv3
Operating Systems	Linux OS Independent Mac OS X Windows
Implementation	Java
Translations	English Italian French Spanish German Chinese Dutch

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0.24.2

14 Apr 2013 13:35

Release Notes: The user can now create new library symbols and edit existing libraries. Standard and non-standard libraries are identified by different icons. Macros can be split (select one, then right click and "split macro"), and they can be moved through user-defined libraries via drag-and-drop in the library tree. When introducing text, a list of some UTF-8 characters (maths symbols, Greek letters, etc.) is now available and very easy to use. This release adds a Japanese translation of the user interface.

0.24.1

05 Nov 2012 00:20

Release Notes: This version has some bugfixes and a few new features and improvements to the user interface. Vertices can now be added and deleted from a polygon and a spline curve. A Dutch translation of the user interface and a Chinese translation of the user manual have been added.

0.24

29 May 2012 01:29

Release Notes: This release adds the new "curve" primitive (natural cubic spline). It adds support for italic text lines. There are Spanish and Chinese translations of the user interface. The IHRaM library has been updated to v. 3.1. There are many bugfixes.

0.23.7

06 Nov 2011 21:16

Release Notes: This is a much more stable version for all operating systems. Many bugs have been fixed. There is a greatly improved look on Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard.

0.23.6

31 Jul 2011 14:31

Release Notes: Some bugs have been corrected. A new library about electrical circuits was added. Handling of a scaling factor while exporting to vector formats was improved. New colors were added for some layers. Users can move elements with the keyboard using [ALT] and the arrow keys. A German translation of the user interface was added.