| Schematic Drawing Program or Electronics Symbols - Click HERE for Original Thread |
| serengetiplains |
| Can anyone recommend a good Macintosh-based schematic drawing program? Alternatively, can anyone tell me where I might obtain a library of electronics symbols? |
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| Sch3mat1c |
BURN MCINTOSH! :D :D Ahem...anyways, I use lesse... well, I don't have a collage, but I suppose I should make one. Here.
Tim |
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| planet10 |
You running under OS 9 (or earlier or under X?
I use Vectorworks ... probably a bit over the top price wise if you can't amotize its cost over paying work -- it is a full-blown professional CAD program (IMHO opion it embarres the industry standard AutoCAD & at a price that leasves you enuff cash to buy a machine to run it on). Because i use it i haven't explored much else.
Here is an article on "5 affordable CAD programs"
http://www.architosh.com/news/2005-...-cadmini_2.html
You can do scematics in almost any Mac drawing program This includes AppleWorks, Illustrator, Freehand & more.
Raster libraries like TubePad encourage using raster editors (ie paint). Paint programs are a bit harder to edit in -- but you can snatch pre-drawn symbols from any schematic posted on the web. You can also use them to edit & prep pictures for all sorts of applications including the web GraphicConverter, PhotoShop Elements (an absolute bargin), AppleWorks are examples.
VectorWorks comes with a set of electronic drawing symbols, but i've ended up making up most of mine (and they are evolving continually. Drawing programs are also good for doing speaker & chassis drawings...
ConceptDraw is another ap that can be used for doing maps.... it is much more than a drawing program
dave |
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