Circuit
Wires, pins, splices, grounds, connectors.
Files: Formats any electronics design app can read and use.
App: A view you can click, zoom, and pan. Click a wire and see where it goes. Click a connector and see what it connects to.
For engineers
Your team gets an app. You also keep the files underneath it. This page is about those files.
What you get back
The reviewed model is called canon.
The canonical files Excaliwire produces are not a prettier scan. They are detailed, machine-readable, industry standard files, in four layers.
Loom
Where the things in the system live, and how they are shaped.
Files: Formats any 3D CAD app can read and use.
App: A view of the size, shape, and position of every component in the system.
Style
How the original maker drew the world, and the dialect they used.
Files: Style sheets: whether wires are drawn with stripes or hatches, what a splice symbol looks like, that they called a splice a join.
App: A view that looks like the old printed manual techs already trust.
Procedure
Tests, failure paths, and advice.
Files: Structured so a tool or AI agent can step a tech through them, or answer with a citation.
App: An AI chat interface with step-by-step troubleshooting and training guides.
Put the system in tools
Files your own tools can open.
The files and databases that standard design tools can open and use: nets, connectors, drawing rules, spatial routes, sourced procedures.
Re-engineer a circuit board. Search for components. Hand a validated graph to the next system.