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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 it is very simple, FidoCadJ can be considered a basic electronic design automation (EDA) 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 among some communities, 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

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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.

0.23.5

22 Jan 2011 21:40

Release Notes: Many bugs have been fixed. Almost each graphic element can now be associated with two lines of text, as was previously possible only with macros. FidoCadJ now asks for confirmation and allows saving the drawing when closing a window containing unsaved data. A Spanish translation was added.

0.23.4

24 Sep 2010 22:31

Release Notes: There are many bugfixes. The IHRaM library has been updated to 3.0. This release is a little faster on some platforms. The character encoding is now UTF-8 on all platforms.

0.23.3

09 May 2010 11:29

Release Notes: Several bugs were fixed. Some details are more configurable, such as line widths and connection sizes. Layer transparency was added, which is useful for PCBs. Some command line options were added for batch converting files.