Schematics - Easy draw circuits, free

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Ever struggled with a CAD app and just wished there was something easier to draw a quick professional-looking circuit schematic, that incidentally is also of publication quality?
One answer seems to be xcircuit. It seems to be free for Linux and Win, and often included with many modern Linux distros.
Is it perfect? No, but hard to beat for the price.

How it worked for me:
I installed it and found that it didn't appear in any Menu. So where did it go?
In a terminal i typed

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which xcircuit

which returned

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/usr/share/xcircuit

so that's where it is!
I then opened my Menu editor, chose a suitable place for xcircuit, using /usr/share/xcircuit as the command to start it. Next, I found a fine-looking icon for it and saved.
Tested the new "launcher" item in the menu to see that it did in fact start xcircuit. Bingo! first time.

Next to find out how to use it. There are many videos on the web , ranging from the informative to the completely useless. I fou…login to view the rest of this post