Export a schematic image
Export the schematic as a PNG or a PDF from the schematic toolbar, for reports, slides, and printouts.
Britt Espinosa
Last Update 15 hari yang lalu
PNG and PDF exports come from the schematic panel itself, and they capture the drawing rather than the circuit data. Use them when you need a picture of the design to drop into a report, a slide, a lab writeup, or a forum post.
Where the button is
Open the Schematic panel. On the right of its toolbar, past the zoom and history controls, is Export schematic. Clicking it opens a short menu:
- Export as .png for a raster image, which is what you want for slides, documents, and anywhere online.
- Export as .pdf for a vector page, which is what you want for printing and for anything that will be scaled up.
The button reads Exporting schematic... while the file is being produced. When it lands, you get Schematic exported as PNG. or Schematic exported as PDF.
Tidy the drawing first
The export reflects the schematic as it stands, so a minute of cleanup pays off.
- Zoom to extents in the toolbar frames everything you have placed, so nothing sits off the edge.
- Auto arrange schematic labels pulls overlapping text back toward the parts it belongs to, which is the usual cause of an unreadable export.
- Delete stray probes and scratch parts you added while debugging.
Net labels and component values are part of the drawing, so anything you want a reader to see should be labeled before you export.
When export fails
Two messages can appear instead of a file.
- Schematic view is not ready for export. The canvas has not finished rendering. Wait a moment, make sure the Schematic panel is open and visible, and try again.
- Failed to export schematic. The render or the download did not complete. Retrying usually clears it. A circuit with nothing on the canvas has nothing to export.
Browsers that block automatic downloads will also stop the file at the last step without any warning, so check your download settings if the toast succeeds but no file arrives.
The other exports
An image is one of three things you can take out of a circuit, and they serve different purposes.
| Export | Where | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Export schematic | Schematic toolbar | A PNG or PDF picture of the drawing |
| Export circuit | Properties, then Advanced, then Circuit Actions | A .csim file holding the whole circuit, ready to import again |
| Bulk export | A circuit list in list view | Several .csim files at once |
Choose Export circuit when the recipient needs to open and run the design. The .csim file is the working copy. An image is for reading, and it cannot be imported back.
Export circuit needs a saved circuit. Its tooltip reads Save the circuit before exporting until you save, and attempting it early gives Save the circuit before exporting it. Successful exports confirm with Circuit exported successfully, and failures with Failed to export circuit.
The public page preview
Public circuits also get an automatic preview image on their overview page, generated from the saved schematic. It is separate from these exports, and the same cleanup improves it. See what-visitors-see-on-a-public-circuit.