What are you capturing the schematic from? Makes me think of a butterfly net or something.
Electronic – Why are they called schematic “capture” programs
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Best Answer
The name comes from the days (not necessarily long past) when a circuit would be designed on paper and then entered into computer later.
The electronics design world is strangely conservative, some of these guys still swear by MS-DOS.