
If you start clicking on one of them and hold the mouse button down you can drag a line to the next dot of another circle you want to connect. When you hover with the cursor over one of the circles you will see 8 small dots. Sometimes its necessary to bring the picture of the component to the bottom (Icon in the upper Menu or CTRL+SHIFT + B) Now all the circles “belong” to the picture of the component and dont get lost when you rearrange everything later on. Mark all the circles and the picture of the component (drag a box around them or click on everything you want to highlight while pressing SHIFT) and hit rightclick → group or just press CTRL + G. Copy and Paste works too.Īfter adjusting the color of the circles the whole component can be grouped. To get every circle in the same size I like to duplicate the first I have drawn with CTRL + D. That prevents them from snapping to the grid. To drag the circles to the exact position, you want to have them, hold ALT while dragging them.around. I used circles without an outline to spare some time adjusting the color of one more element. Your can adjust the size based on the gridlines (the spacing of the grid can be adjusted)įor every wire you would like to connect to a solder pad or a through hole you can draw a small circle.

Raspberry Pi)įind pictures of the components you would like to wire up. Before i came to draw.io which can be installed or used in the browser I tried Inkscape but the connector tool there works, but makes it hard to arrange the lines later.
SIMPLEDIAGRAMS SOFTWARE
I used draw.io which is a free software which is powerful enough but also simple to learn.
