Galva is a program which was originally created to design precisely scales for galvanometer, potentiometers, VCs and so forth. Therefore, the Help deals mainly with the designing of galvanometer scales, but of course the principles apply in all cases. Both straight and curved scales can be drawn.

The program has a large number of possible applications, and so a minimal amount of time must be spent to learn how to use it.

A Help file and many examples have been created to help you get started.

Galva may be used in French, English, German and Spanish, and there is a Russian assistance for users of the English version.

You are allowed to install and try this program for free, however, if you use it effectively (for non commercial uses only) or if you wish to keep using it after a free trial period, i.e. more than one month, you need to send the developers a postcard (found in Conditions of use in the Help).

Galva is a command interpreter, i.e, you will have to write a kind of program which describes what you intend to draw. To do this, you must use different commands or instructions.

Example 1: Cercle = 20, 30, 10 draws a circle whose centre is 20 mm right to and 30 mm above the reference point which is by default the left bottom limit, and whose radius is 10 mm.

Example 2: Texte = 20, 40, bleu, GC,My Text will produce « My Text », in blue colour, bold and centered, at coordinates 20, 40. more