Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Circuit Diagrams

[New to TeX]

I recently came across Circuit_Macros to draw high quality circuit diagrams, is there anyway to integrate this into MiKTeK on a windows 7 platform? I am fairly new to this so take it easy

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

Sure, it can be installed on MiKTeX. You need to install m4, dpic, and that macro collection. It's described here, also regarding MiKTeX 2.9 on Windows 7: M4 Circuit Macros - Installation.

Do you really need Circuit_Macros or do you just want to try it? Perhaps have a look at circuitikz, it's easier to install, simply use the MikTeX package manager and install the packages pgf and circuitikz.

Regarding pgf and TikZ, there's already a circuit library in TikZ. You can read about it in the TikZ manual, in 29 Circuit Libraries. Using circuitikz or TikZ has the advantage, that once you learned TikZ, you can do many other things with it, because TikZ is a very capable graphics package.

Stefan

[localghost]

Just for completeness. You can also take a look at the pst-circ package, which is based on PSTricks, the other common graphics package. Personally I would prefer Stefan's suggestion.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[New to TeX]

I want to use it because I believe its better. I have done all the set-up instructions I tried placing the example.m4 into C\Users\Username\texmf\Circuit_Macros, however when I go dpic -p example.m4 > example.tex I get the following error warning

Cannot Open File C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\2.9\miktek\bin\\README.TXT

Im stuck.

[Laganne]

I want to use it because I believe its better. I have done all the set-up instructions I tried placing the example.m4 into C\Users\Username\texmf\Circuit_Macros, however when I go dpic -p example.m4 > example.tex I get the following error warning

Cannot Open File C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\2.9\miktek\bin\\README.TXT

Im stuck.

You have a configuration problem but unless you give a minimal example or a log file it is impossible to know where it is. However, you have to read your library files and source files into m4 and feed the result into dpic so your command should look something like the following:

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m4 -I <macro directory> pstricks.m4 example.m4 | dpic -p > example.tex