a few months later I was showing a friend the ropes of his new 3D printer and suggested this tool, He told me that his account can’t save more than 1 project (a restriction they added to new free users), A few weeks later, I got a mail from tinkercad saying they were pulling the plug on the tool and that I had a week to download my files in a propritary format before they shut down the sole method of opening/editing them. When I first got into 3D printing, I fount it to be the simplest way to quickly design models. I’m reminded of the TinkerCAD web based cloud 3D design tool. +1 Fritzing does this better and is not dependant on 3rd party whims of pulling the plug. If you’re new to circuit design or want some guidance for using 123D Circuits, they have provided an extensive list of applicable Instructables.

Plopping in a virtual Arduino lets you edit its code on the fly in another window, which you can then simulate. Some features of the free account, however, may tempt the Arduino veteran away from a go-to program like Fritzing. Dollar signs pop up again when you hit “finish circuit ” they offer to sell you PCBs in multiples of three. Unfortunately, your work is public and therefore accessible by anyone unless you fork over $12 or $25 monthly: the former only gives you 5 private circuits. Anything you design sits on the cloud: you can collaborate with others and even embed your circuit (with functioning simulation) straight into a webpage.

Arduino fanatics rejoice: Autodesk and Circuits.io have jointly released a new electronics design tool with some unique features: 123D Circuits. Anyone familiar with Autodesk knows they have a bit of a habit of taking over the world, but you can relax knowing this is a (pretty much) free product that’s filed under their Free 3D tools-though we’re not quite sure what is “3D” about a circuits layout program.ġ23D is web-based software, and using it requires account creation on the circuits.io website.

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