SLDGridy

New

• Dark mode for the whole program: DARK button in the status bar or Settings > Dark mode. Menus, toolbars, library, dialogs and drawing area turn dark, printing, PDF and export stay on white paper. Settings > Drawing area sets the drawing area light or dark on its own.
• Cables (Draw > Cable, in circuit diagram projects): draw a line across the conductors of one cable, then enter the cable (-W1 is proposed), type and cores. The cores are proposed from the connections (PE and PEN: GNYE, N: BU, outer conductors BN, BK, GY). Terminal plan and cable list fill in by themselves.
• Cable outlet (Draw > Cable outlet): a freely placed label saying where a cable goes, e.g. “Outgoing to the LV board”. It appears in the cable list under “To”.
• Page scale: Page > Edit page > Scale, e.g. 1:5 for the enclosure layout. Symbols are inserted at that scale, typed lengths and dimensions are real millimetres, content already drawn is rescaled when the scale changes.
• Set terminal: tick PE, N or PEN instead of a number. The PE terminal is a plain circle like the others.
• New symbols in the MLD library: fuse switch disconnector 3-pole, 4-pole with N passing through and 4-pole with N fused.
• About SLDGridy: link to wozise.de with the wozise logo.

Changed

• Terminal plan: “Terminal strip: -X1” on one line, 24 instead of 21 terminals per page, the table ends after the last terminal.
• Pre-releases come as .deb only. The Windows installer is built for releases only.

Fixed

• DXF import: device drawings with helper blocks such as the dimension arrow “_Closed” come in as the whole drawing instead of just the arrow.
• No more hang when moving the mouse over detailed symbols such as imported device drawings. Such symbols are kept ready, mouse moves over them are about five times faster.
• Block editor: saving or discarding returns to the page it was opened from. In a circuit diagram project it used to land on an empty canvas.

This release on GitHub

Linux and Windows CAD for single-line diagrams, circuit diagram projects and scaled drawings (PV systems, roof layouts, transformer stations, LV distribution).

Install (Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04):

sudo snap install sldgridy

or: sudo apt install ./sldgridy_1.3.0_all.deb

Windows 10/11: SLDGridy-1.3.0-setup.exe. Not signed: click "More info", then "Run anyway".

New in 1.3.0

• A start window offers three kinds of file: overview diagram (single-line, as before), circuit diagram project (multi-line, numbered A3 pages) and drawing (scaled, e.g. a roof layout); each shows only its own tools, menus and libraries
• Circuit diagram projects: page types (cover, contents, circuit diagram, terminal plan, cable list, parts list, ...), plant and location numbering, column strip, frame and title block; prints exactly on A3 or fitted onto A4
• Devices by tag with contact mirror and cross references, interruption points that continue a conductor on another page (click the conductor end), wiring aids, an all-pole symbol library
• Pages that fill themselves: cover, contents, parts list, cable list and the terminal plan as a form (one strip per page, cable columns, bridges); lists can be exported as CSV
• Import circuit diagrams (File menu): a PDF from a CAD program comes in as editable lines, circles and texts; photos, scans and screenshots as a picture or converted into lines and texts (experimental, texts read with Tesseract; for a sheet photographed at a slant drag the corners onto it)
• Scale objects by a factor or a reference length
• Windows installer
• Printing sends standard paper sizes to the printer (no more shrunken printouts)
• The .deb needs python3-pyqt6.qtpdf, python3-pdfminer, tesseract-ocr and tesseract-ocr-deu; apt installs them automatically
• Files with project pages or pictures cannot be opened by 1.2

Everything from 1.2.0 is included.

This release on GitHub

Linux CAD for single-line diagrams and scaled drawings (PV systems, roof layouts, transformer stations, LV distribution).

Install (Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04):

sudo snap install sldgridy

or: sudo apt install ./sldgridy_1.2.0_all.deb

New in 1.2.0

• Workspaces Circuit diagram (SLD) and Drawing, each with its own layers, grid and libraries; the program always starts in SLD
• Scaled drawings: line widths apply on paper, zoom out to 0.05 % for roofs and sites over 100 m, align the model view on Sheet 1, 2, … (click the Model tab)
• Typed values at the cursor: length on the line, angle at its start, Tab switches; a typed length snaps onto nearby edges, directions snap in 15° steps (angle snap in the GRID/SNAP popup)
• Dimensions: horizontal/vertical, parallel and angle; value text never upside down; several dimensions or wires can be edited together in the Properties dock
• Roof layout: Draw > Module field fills a roof face with PV modules (portrait or landscape, distances, obstacles), optionally a chosen number; fields with over 1000 modules in about a second
• Rotate by any angle (button with drop-down, also 90°), Mirror asks: replace original or keep it and copy
• Object snap Nearest (any point on lines, also sloped ones, circles and arcs); a polyline snaps to its own points and closes on its start
• Text height can be typed freely (e.g. 125 mm for a plan at 1:50)
• Much faster with many objects (select all, move, delete, undo)
• Safer: automatic backups are no longer lost when recovering or discarding (kept in ~/.cache/sldgridy/alt), crash log notes unusual memory use and hangs
• Help > Readme

Everything from 1.1.5 is included.

This release on GitHub

Linux CAD for single-line diagrams (PV systems, transformer stations, LV distribution).

Install (Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04):

sudo snap install sldgridy

or: sudo apt install ./sldgridy_1.1.5_all.deb

New in 1.1.5

• Available in the Snap Store: sudo snap install sldgridy or the Ubuntu App Center
• Fast display (drawing cache) is off on first start; switch it on under Settings > Fast display
• Packages are built automatically by GitHub Actions

Everything from 1.1.4 (symbols, wire grips, docking points, speed, Settings menu) is included.

This release on GitHub