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Electric reads and writes libraries of circuitry in its own binary format.
For portability between computers, it is also able to read and write a textual format of its database.
However, for maximum compatibility with other EDA systems, Electric supports a number of
popular interchange and manufacturing formats:
| Format | Direction | Description |
| CIF | Input and Output | Caltech Intermediate Format |
| GDS II | Input and Output | Calma GDS interchange format |
| EDIF | Input and Output | Electronic Design Interchange Format |
| SUE | Input | Schematic User Environment (a schematics editor) |
| DXF | Input and Output | AutoCAD mechanical format |
| VHDL | Input and Output | Hardware description language |
| Verilog | Output | Hardware description language |
| CDL | Output | Cadence's circuit description language |
| EAGLE | Output | Schematic capture interface |
| PADS | Output | Schematic capture interface |
| ECAD | Output | Schematic capture interface |
| Applicon | Input | Applicon/860 (an old CAD format) |
| Bookshelf | Input | Bookshelf (placement interchange format) |
| Gerber | Input and Output | Gerber Scientific plotter format |
| HPGL | Output | Plotting language |
| PostScript | Output | Plotting language |
| SVG | Output | Scalable Vector Graphics (for browsers) |