I use the circuit diagram editor from this site for all of my circuit diagrams for my projects. It generally has all the elements I want to use easily available, at least until now. I wanted to add an 8 pin din connector to my diagram so that I could include the pinout for the connection, however it wasn’t available in the default package, you needed to use the extended symbols, which are not available on the Web version.
In order to use the symbol, I had to install the desktop version (which is fairly old). The desktop version however doesn’t support the newer XML format provided in the repo, so we need another tool to do the conversion.
We download circuit-diagram-cli, and use the arguments below to do the conversion, drop that into the desktop tools folder, and restart it for everything to finally work.
C:\Users\steve\Downloads>circuit-diagram-cli.exe component mini-din-8.xml -o mini-din-8.cdcom --verbose
Mapping resources as key-file pairs.
Input is a file.
Starting 'mini-din-8.xml'
mini-din-8.xml
Starting binary generation.
Compiling C:\Users\thest\Downloads\mini-din-8.xml
Icon minidin8_32.png not found.
Icon minidin8_64.png not found.
Compiled to C:\Users\thest\Downloads\mini-din-8.cdcom
binary -> mini-din-8.cdcom
Finshed 'mini-din-8.xml'