• Logisim home page
• Guide to Being a Logisim User
  • Beginner's tutorial
    • Step 0: Orienting yourself
    • Step 1: Adding gates
    • Step 2: Adding wires
    • Step 3: Adding text
    • Step 4: Testing your circuit
  • Libraries and attributes
    • The explorer pane
    • The attribute table
    • Tool and component attributes
  • Subcircuits
    • Creating circuits
    • Using subcircuits
    • Debugging subcircuits
    • Logisim libraries
  • Wire bundles
    • Creating bundles
    • Splitters
    • Wire colors
  • Combinational analysis
    • Opening Combinational Analysis
    • Editing the truth table
    • Creating expressions
    • Generating a circuit
  • Menu reference
    • The File menu
    • The Edit menu
    • The Project menu
    • The Simulate menu
    • The Window and Help menus
  • Memory components
    • Poking memory
    • Pop-up menus and files
    • Hex editor
  • Logging
    • The Selection tab
    • The Table tab
    • The File tab
  • Application preferences
    • The Template tab
    • The Tools tab
    • The International tab
    • The Experimental tab
    • The command line
  • Project options
    • The Canvas tab
    • The Simulation tab
    • The Toolbar tab
    • The Mouse tab
  • Value propagation
    • Gate delays
    • Oscillation errors
    • Shortcomings
  • JAR libraries
    • Gray Code Incrementer
    • Library Class
    • Simple Gray Code Counter
    • Gray Code Counter
    • Guidelines
  • About the program
    • GNU General Public License
• Library Reference
  • Base library
    • Poke Tool
    • Edit Tool
    • Select Tool
    • Wiring Tool
    • Text Tool
    • Menu Tool
    • Splitter
    • Pin
    • Probe
    • Clock
    • Text
  • Gates library
    • Constant
    • NOT Gate
    • Buffer
    • AND/OR/NAND/NOR Gate
    • XOR/XNOR/Even/Odd Gate
    • Controlled Buffer/Inverter
  • Plexers library
    • Multiplexer
    • Demultiplexer
    • Decoder
    • Priority Encoder
    • Bit Selector
  • Arithmetic library
    • Adder
    • Subtractor
    • Multiplier
    • Divider
    • Negator
    • Comparator
    • Shifter
  • Memory library
    • D/T/J-K/S-R Flip-Flop
    • Register
    • Counter
    • Shift Register
    • Random
    • RAM
    • ROM
  • Input/Output library
    • Button
    • Joystick
    • Keyboard
    • LED
    • 7-Segment Display
    • Hex Digit Display
    • LED Matrix
    • TTY
  • Legacy library
    • Logisim 1.0 D/J-K Flip-Flop
    • Logisim 1.0 8-Bit Register

The File menu

New

Opens a new project in a new window. The project will initially be a copy of the currently selected template.

Open...

Opens an existing file as a project in a new window.

Close

Closes all windows associated with the currently viewed project.

Save

Saves the currently viewed project, overwriting what was previously in the file.

Save As...

Saves the currently viewed project, prompting the user to save into a different file than before.

Export Image...

Creates image file(s) corresponding to circuits. The configuration dialog box is described below.

Print...

Sends circuit(s) to a printer. The configuration dialog box is described below.

Preferences...

Displays the application preferences window. (On Mac OS systems, this will appear in the Logisim menu.)

Exit

Closes all currently open projects and terminates Logisim. (On Mac OS systems, this will appear as Quit in the Logisim menu.)

Configuring Export

When you select Export Image..., Logisim displays a dialog box with four options.

• Circuits: A list where you can select one or more circuits that should be exported into image files. (Empty circuits are not displayed as options.)
• Image Format: You can create PNG, GIF, and JPEG files. I would recommend PNG files: The GIF format is quite dated, and the JPEG format will introduce artifacts into the image, as the JPEG format is really meant for photographic images.
• Scale Factor: You can scale the images as they are dumped into image files using this slider.
• Printer View: Whether to use "printer view" in exporting the circuits.

After clicking OK, Logisim will display a file selection dialog box. If you have selected one circuit, select the file into which the image should be placed. If you have selected multiple circuits, select a directory where the files should be placed; Logisim will name the images based on the circuits' names (main.png, for example).

Configuring Print

When you choose Print..., Logisim displays a dialog box for configuring what is printed.

• Circuits: A list where you can select one or more circuits to be printed. (Empty circuits are not displayed as options.) Logisim will print one circuit per page. If the circuit is too large for the page, the image will be scaled down to fit.
• Header: Text that should appear centered at the top of each page. The following substitutions will be made into the text.

  %n	Name of circuit on page
  %p	Page number
  %P	Total page count
  %%	A single percent sign ('%')

• Rotate To Fit: If checked, then Logisim will rotate each circuit by 90 degrees when the circuit is too large to fit onto the page and it does not need to be scaled as small when rotated 90 degrees.
• Printer View: Whether to use "printer view" in printing the circuits.

After clicking OK, Logisim will display the standard page setup dialog box before printing the circuits.

Next: The Edit menu.