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# WireViz
## Summary
WireViz is a tool for easily documenting cables, wiring harnesses and connector pinouts. It takes plain text, YAML-formatted files as input and produces beautiful graphical output (SVG, PNG, ...) thanks to [GraphViz](https://www.graphviz.org/). It handles automatic BOM (Bill of Materials) creation and has a lot of extra features.
## Features
* WireViz input files are fully text based
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_Note_: WireViz is not designed to represent the complete wiring of a system. Its main aim is to document the construction of individual wires and harnesses.
## Installation
WireWiz requires GraphViz to be installed in order to work. See the [GraphViz download page](https://graphviz.org/download/) for OS-specific instructions.
Installation of the WireWiz package and its Python dependencies can be done using pip after cloning the repository:
```
git clone <repo url>
cd <working copy>
pip3 install -e .
```
## Examples
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See the [tutorial page](tutorial/readme.md) for sample code,
as well as the [example gallery](examples/readme.md) to see more of what WireViz can do.
## Usage
### Installation
#### Requirements
WireViz requires Python 3.7 or later.
WireWiz requires GraphViz to be installed in order to work. See the [GraphViz download page](https://graphviz.org/download/) for OS-specific instructions.
_Note_: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS users in particular may need to separately install Python 3.7 or above, as that comes with Python 3.6 as the included system Python install.
#### Installing the latest release
The latest WireViz release can be downloaded from [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/wireviz/) with the following command:
```
pip3 install wireviz
```
#### Installing the development version
Access to the current state of the development branch can be gained by cloning the repo and installing manually:
```
git clone <repo url>
cd <working copy>
git checkout dev
pip3 install -e .
```
### How to run
```
$ wireviz ~/path/to/file/mywire.yml
```
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mywire.html HTML page with wiring diagram and BOM embedded
```
### Syntax description
A description of the WireViz YAML input syntax can be found [here](syntax.md).
### (Re-)Building the example projects
If you would like to rebuild all of the included demos, examples and tutorials, use the ```build_examples.py``` script:
If you would like to rebuild all of the included demos, examples and tutorials, use the `build_examples.py` script:
```cd src/wireviz
./build_examples.py
```
## Changelog
See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md)
## Status
This is very much a [work in progress](https://github.com/formatc1702/WireViz/projects/1). Source code, API, syntax and functionality may change wildly at any time.
This is very much a work in progress. Source code, API, syntax and functionality may change wildly at any time.
## Requirements
Developed and tested using Python 3.7; might not work with older Python versions.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS users in particular may need to separately install Python 3.7 or above, as that comes with Python 3.6 as the included system Python install.
## License