MAC free schematic drawing software?

[planet10]

Originally posted by KevinHeem
I work on the Mac platform as well. I've been trying different software for schematic and PCB layout (Eagle, MacCad, DesignWorksLite).

electric vlsi

I've been using Vectorworks for schematics -- but not something you go out and buy for casual schematics (unless you are a studunt -- you can save something like 90%). I've downloaded Osmond, read the manual, but haven't had a real PCB to apply it to... thanx for the link to the latter.

dave

[lakeside]

I've used Xcircuit for years, great program. Open source and free. It's primarily developed for Linux/UNIX, which is what I use. However, after having a look at there web site, there appears to be packages available for MAC also, on there 'Download' page.

http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/

[tomchr]

Originally posted by jmbee

http://www.mccad.com/FREEMACSTUFF.html

mac schematics lite is free but limited to 22 components.

22 nets for the free version, actually. Not components. That's pretty limiting. But I guess you get what you pay for. At $700 for the full version, I guess it's not exactly unreasonable, but still. $700 is a good hunk of change in this economy...

My alternative is to run PSpice Student Ed. (limited to 20-ish active devices) via VMware Fusion. It works, but it would be more fun with native Mac software.

~Tom

[tomchr]

Folks,

I think I found a possible answer to my own question.

Stand-alone SPICE simulator: MacSpice
Schematic capture: Xcircuit

It's a bit clunkier than an integrated schematics+simulator environment but I think it'll provide the functionality I need.

For Windoze users, Winspice and Xcircuit could work. And I'm sure there's a UNIX/linux version of SPICE out there seeing how it was developed on that system back in the day.

~Tom

[jmbee]

<<<22 nets for the free version, actually. Not components. >>>
made with schematics lite:
http://www.imagefreehost.com/files/2...460132215.jpeg

[bichela]

Originally Posted by tomchr

Folks,

I think I found a possible answer to my own question.

Stand-alone SPICE simulator: MacSpice
Schematic capture: Xcircuit

It's a bit clunkier than an integrated schematics+simulator environment but I think it'll provide the functionality I need.

For Windoze users, Winspice and Xcircuit could work. And I'm sure there's a UNIX/linux version of SPICE out there seeing how it was developed on that system back in the day.

~Tom

I got the generic Unix version and MacSpice. I haven't compiled Spice on Linux yet but I will try to do that soon.