Welcome to the TinyCAD home page

TinyCAD is a program to help you draw circuit diagrams. It comes complete with symbol libraries to get you started straight away. As well as being able to simply print your designs, you can use TinyCAD to publish your drawings by copying and pasting into a Word document or saving as a PNG bitmap for the web.

You can use TinyCAD as a front end to a number of PCB layout program, by getting TinyCAD to create a netlist of your circuit.

TinyCAD is fully open-source so you can use it for free and you can download the source code for use in your own projects.

September 08 – Work started on a new release

Don Lucas has converted the source code to compile on Visual Studio 2008 and is leding the work towards a new releas.

Thanks Don for leading the way !

The release is planned for Q1 2009.

22/02/06 – TinyCAD version 2.60.01 released

To try it out, download it now!

This new version of TinyCAD includes one major new feature that has been much sort after of late. It includes support for heterogenous symbols.

New features

You can now have heterogeneous symbols.
You can show the power pins on a symbol.
A new pin shape with the name on the centre of the line
Internally now TinyCAD is a full Unicode program for better i18n support

Bug fixes:

The crash on delete bug should be finally fixed!
Symbols should remain where they are between saving and loading

Follow and be a part of the development

Bugs and other development stuff is kept at SourceForge. Please visit the tracker before posting new bugs to the Yahoo! group.

Help and support

Please go to the Yahoo! group called "TinyCAD". In this group you can talk to other TinyCAD users. Find libraries that other users have uploaded and designs that other people have drawn.

This group is an excellent place to start if you are new to TinyCAD.

Because of spam the message board is moderated and so it might take a day or so for your message to appear.

Go there now by clicking this link: Yahoo Group