XML Control Circuit Help

October 2020

XML Control Circuit is a simple 2D Electrical CAD program built from the ground up to focus on getting the salient electrical design intent conveyed.

"Practise Makes Perfect"

Essential Topics

Below are links to Circuit Help Topics in the order they should be reviewed to get you up and running...

Installation & Help - Installing Circuit, help resources and support options

Getting Started - This is a must read after first installation of the software

Project Manager - Describes setting up a new project, plus a preamble on file types

Sheet Setup - Setting up a new schematic Sheet plus using Edit Mode

Basic Drawing - How to draw basic shapes, select objects, resize and move them

Create Symbol - Create a basic symbol, add wire-nodes, add component data

Using Symbols - How to view and apply symbols in your project, plus using Groups

Basic Data - Basic Data input and creating a simple Bill of Materials

Simple Circuit - Create a simple circuit plus using Automatic Wires

Wire Numbers - Add Wire Numbers to the simple circuit and automate numbering

Create Border - Create a custom Border, add dynamic Texts, apply Border to a project

Cross References - Using Interruption Points to extend connections across Sheets

Coils & Contacts - Creating cross references between Coils and Contacts

Terminals - Adding Terminals to a circuit, plus the automatic numbering of them

Printing - Set up printing of a project with print preview, plus adding a Watermark

SVG / PDF Export - Export your project to Scalable Vector Graphic format and HTML with dynamic features

Zoom - Zoom control of circuit sheets

Additional Topics

Below are links to Circuit Help Topics that present various features and functions to assist in your design and help manage your projects...

Navigator - Using the Sheet Navigator to move quickly between Sheets plus other short-cuts

Project Tools - Using various tools, functions and features to manage your Circuit Projects easily

Images - Using Images, plus the tools and features to help move and manage them

Search & Replace - Using the Find, Replace and Global Update dialogues to search for and change values

Using Libraries - Using Symbol, Border and Form libraries, creating content and adding that content to projects

Texts Part 1 - Using Text objects, basic features, plus application and purpose of gene, element and other properties

Texts Part 2 - Continuation from Texts Part 1, as there is quite a lot of detail here

Selectable  - How to set and reset any item as "selectable" to assist in selection precision

Development Topics

Below are links to Circuit Help Topics that present various features and functions that are considered "under development" or "not feature complete"...

Polygons - Creating simple polygon objects, colouring them and adding hatching styles

Credits

Some icons in Circuit are courtesy of...

Icons by Axialis Team