Export Plot Images to PNG

May 16 2012, 1:00 PM PDT · 2 comments »

We've just finished rolling out a new feature that will make it easier to save and share the resulting plots of your CircuitLab simulations. It's now possible to export a PNG image of your plots directly within your browser, without having to take a screenshot. Simply click on the new "Export Plot Images" link at the top of the plots window.

Export Plot Image

This will open a new tab with all the current plots exported as PNGs. You can then right click and save the plots you want to keep, or use your browser to print them all out. Combined with our Advanced Graphing, we think these improvements make CircuitLab one of the easiest ways to get simulation results from our DC Sweep, Time Domain, or Frequency Domain modes plotted for inclusion on websites, forums, lab reports, or project documentation.

Here's an example plot image from @signality's Guitar Tone Stack 01 circuit:


International (IEC/European) Symbols as Defaults

May 15 2012, 11:00 AM PDT · 1 comment »

We announced support for IEC/European-style resistor symbols a few weeks ago, but we've just made them more convenient to use for our growing segment of international users. You can now choose to use these symbols by default in all new circuits you create with CircuitLab. Just go to your CircuitLab account settings and change the "Default Resistor Style" box to "IEC". The next time you open an editor window, you'll find that new elements you place will default to that style.

We hope this change makes CircuitLab a better schematic capture tool for our users across the globe.


10,000 Users (in 10 Weeks)

May 10 2012, 9:15 PM PDT · 0 comments »

In just under ten weeks after our public launch, we're happy to announce that last week we crossed the 10,000 registered users milestone! We decided to reach out to a few of our newest users and see who they were. Here's what a few of them told us about themselves:

Jason Goodman, from Wheaton College in Norton, MA is a physics professor drawing simple circuits for exams and problem sets.

Alexander S. is an engineer born and living in Munich. Alexander says: "I am proud to be one of the users 10000+ who recently signed up to this site. I have worked in Russia for quite some time, now I work as an test field engeneer. I still have my own company and I am developing small circuits and interfaces for various applications like telephone, signalisation and survillance. A friend told me about this site and I am impressed about the possibilities without needing to install something. I had some experiences with spice before but I think this site is good for beginners and students to get in touch with electronics. When I was young I started to get in touch with electronics by soldering parts together. With CircuitLab I want to do some things with my son on this site for him to get into touch with electronics."

Sergio Andrade is from Monterrey, NL, Mexico. Sergio says: "I'm an Electronic Eng interested in Robotics, Sensors and RF mainly."

Grey K. is an electrical engineering student in New York interested in power, RF and robotics. Grey says: "I'm two weeks short of finishing my junior year studying electrical engineering at NYIT. I have these lab classes wherein I need to simulate some simple analog electronics and then compare those simulation results with experimental measurements. [...] What I love about [CircuitLab] is that it's easy to use, especially as compared to PSpice when all I basically need is a frequency response graph. At the same time though, it isn't lacking in features; Last week I found out you can actually change all the specific attributes of a BJT."

We're excited to be attracting a diverse worldwide userbase across the entire online electronics community of students, educators, hobbyists, and professionals. Over the coming months, help us unite those users into a community -- one with literally tens of thousands of years of combined electronics experience.