Drawing schematics?

[Johan_Ch]

Hi.

I'm looking for a program to draw schematics in. Any ideas?

/Johan Ch

 

[jan.didden]

Do you want only to draw nice schematics? Or are you thinking about designing PCBs for your circuits? If that is the case, you should take a schematic program with the capability to generate netlists, which can then be read by the PCB program. That way, you are sure that the PCB is exactly like the schematic.

Jan Didden

 

[Douchekop]

You could use Eagle, it is good and easy and the light version is free! www.cadsoft.de I use it in combination of a HP7550 plotter.

 

[Johan_Ch]

Hi, and thanks for your reply.

Well, I'm looking for both, but the first priority is a program that I can draw schematics in. I want to get rid of all thus papers laying around everywhere.

/Johan Ch

 

[James D.]

The schematic program with the smallest learning curve is Tubepad . This is a library of images for use in MS Paint - so it's childs play to learn... and almost as quick as a pencil and paper once you have used it a few times.

ciao

James

 

[slowmotion]

I just use MS Paint, very easy

cheers

 

[Bas Horneman]

Hi I use SwitcherCad... a free program for spice simulations..but you can easily create your own symbols if..like I did.

http://home.zonnet.nl/horneman/swcad.htm

 

[planet10]

I use VectorWorks. Not a low cost option thou...

dave

 

[arnoldc]

I use Visio (now Microsoft Visio)

 

[fdegrove]

Hi,

The schematic program with the smallest learning curve is Tubepad . This is a library of images for use in MS Paint - so it's childs play to learn... and almost as quick as a pencil and paper once you have used it a few times.

So do I.

I've converted all the *.bmp files to *.gif though.
This gives me much better results ( no pixelation black spots) and the endresult takes up a fraction of the HD/WEB real estate.

Cheers,

 

[dhaen]

Lossy systems....

Hi,



So do I.

I've converted all the *.bmp files to *.gif though.
This gives me much better results ( no pixelation black spots) and the endresult takes up a fraction of the HD/WEB real estate.

Cheers,

Ah, but they won't be so editable now, will they

 

[fdegrove]

RE:Lossy systems....

Hi,

Ah, but they won't be so editable now, will they

So far I haven't run into any problem related to the GIF format.

And of course I kept the original BMP files just in case.

For cleaning up badly scanned images I use PaintShop Pro filters, anything else is usually done in Mickeysoft MS Paint.

Cheers,