Drawing schematics?

Johan_Ch · 27th June 2003, 10:34 AM

Hi.

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

/Johan Ch

janneman · 27th June 2003, 11:00 AM

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 · 27th June 2003, 11:05 AM

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 · 27th June 2003, 12:20 PM

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. · 27th June 2003, 01:30 PM

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 · 27th June 2003, 02:04 PM

I just use MS Paint, very easy

cheers

Bas Horneman · 27th June 2003, 11:02 PM

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 · 28th June 2003, 09:11 AM

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

dave

arnoldc · 30th June 2003, 09:55 AM

I use Visio (now Microsoft Visio)

fdegrove · 30th June 2003, 10:21 AM

Hi,

Quote:

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,

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27th June 2003, 11:00 AM	#2
janneman diyAudio Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Where Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium meet Blog Entries: 6	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

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Douchekop diyAudio Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sint Oedenrode	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.

27th June 2003, 12:20 PM	#4
Johan_Ch diyAudio Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Sweden	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

27th June 2003, 01:30 PM	#5
James D. diyAudio Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: North Herts, UK	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

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slowmotion diyAudio Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Norge	I just use MS Paint, very easy cheers

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Bas Horneman diyAudio Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: The Netherlands Blog Entries: 18	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

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arnoldc diyAudio Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Makati	I use Visio (now Microsoft Visio)

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