| schematic drawing software - Click HERE for Original Thread |
| steven344 |
| Does anyone know of any easy to use schematic drawing software,I use to use circuitmaker but its gone:bawling: |
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| DcibeL |
| There is a free trial download for CircuitMaker. Also look at Eagle, there is a free (limited) version of that program as well. |
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| labjr |
| I use Visio. works ok |
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| GeWa |
Rudi
I think you mean SPlan.
Regards |
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| rudi |
Hi Gewa
yes, sorry you are right. :) also a very good program |
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| Hara |
You can also use Dia.
http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/
Its probably best for simple electronic diagrams but its fairly flexible and can be used for any type of diagrams. Opensource and multi-platform. |
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| Kevinbd |
Hello,
I have recently been using Easy PC for windows. The schematics come out fine if you print them on A3. But when you make them smaller and edit them to fit the diyaudio image upload, they look awful.
I know AutoCAD was quite good for this ( a work colleague used it) but there is a pretty steep learning curve using autoCAD!
Regards
Kevin |
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| lineup |
I have downloaded
McCAD and EAGLE
Eagle is free and McCAD unregistered is in 'lite' mode.
I havent use them much
I also sometimes have this image resize problem.
Get very bad quality.
Maybe it is more I do not know how to use my image editor? |
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| jcx |
I’m “surprised” your search before you posted didn’t turn up:
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/show...rawing+software
also most pcb layout software will include schematic input ( “schematic capture” in the industry lingo - this is a search hint)
another currently active thread:
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/show...10&pagenumber=1
this topic (with pcb layout emphasis) is generally covered in “electronics and parts” forum, sometimes “everything else”
LtSwCad III “LtSpice” output:
I would vote to squash this thread altogether as redundant, or maybe append to an existing thread you should have found |
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| Kevinbd |
JCX,
You were dead right about LtSwCad III. Just downloaded it, and it's perfect for the job. That other software I was using was fine for making PCB's, (and OK with large A3 schematics) but after the schematics had been downsized/manipulated etc they were frankly rubbish.
Kevin |
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| davidsrsb |
Look for Kicad (free) which works on XP and Linux.
This does schematics and PCB
Also there's xcircuit on Linux machines
A good resource for opensource engineering software
http://www.opencollector.org |
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