Some years ago I used Visio at work for schematic drawing, but I no
longer have access to it. Can someone recommend a program to use at
home for creating schematic drawings? I don't care if it is payware as
long as the price is reasonable. I found a couple with Google which
were several hundred bucks, a bit much for my needs.

Do recent Visio releases still have schematic drawing capability? I
went to the Microsoft website and they advertise all kinds of drawing
capabilities, but not schematics.

Thanks in advance,

Bill, W6WRT

Bill Turner wrote:

Some years ago I used Visio at work for schematic drawing, but I no
longer have access to it. Can someone recommend a program to use at
home for creating schematic drawings? I don't care if it is payware as
long as the price is reasonable. I found a couple with Google which
were several hundred bucks, a bit much for my needs.

Do recent Visio releases still have schematic drawing capability? I
went to the Microsoft website and they advertise all kinds of drawing
capabilities, but not schematics.

Thanks in advance,

Bill, W6WRT


Switchercad III is free spice software with schematic capture.
http://www.linear.com/company/software.jsp


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Central Florida

Try Kicad
Its a capable OSS program that will run on Linux or Windows
(I use it on Linux - havent tried M$)
has a project manager to allow PCB drafting from the schematic

Richard

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Bill Turner wrote:

Some years ago I used Visio at work for schematic drawing, but I no
longer have access to it. Can someone recommend a program to use at
home for creating schematic drawings? I don't care if it is payware as
long as the price is reasonable. I found a couple with Google which
were several hundred bucks, a bit much for my needs.

Do recent Visio releases still have schematic drawing capability? I
went to the Microsoft website and they advertise all kinds of drawing
capabilities, but not schematics.

Thanks in advance,

Bill, W6WRT



Switchercad III is free spice software with schematic capture.
http://www.linear.com/company/software.jsp

http://www.expresspcb.com/

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Bill Turner wrote:

Some years ago I used Visio at work for schematic drawing, but I no
longer have access to it. Can someone recommend a program to use at
home for creating schematic drawings? I don't care if it is payware as
long as the price is reasonable. I found a couple with Google which
were several hundred bucks, a bit much for my needs.

Do recent Visio releases still have schematic drawing capability? I
went to the Microsoft website and they advertise all kinds of drawing
capabilities, but not schematics.

Thanks in advance,

Bill, W6WRT

Any good CADD program can do that. If it is the symbols your looking
for, most of the good CADD outfits have libraries of Electronic,
Electric, Mechanical, and Structural Symbols, or you can build your own
library of symbols.

Bruce in alaska AL7AQ
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Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Thank you Mike.

Will

DAV 22 Alhambra CA Memorial Honor Detail
Memorial Honor Detail, Riverside National Cemerty, CA.
Armorer, RNC.

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:16:20 -0700, Bill Turner
wrote:

Some years ago I used Visio at work for schematic drawing, but I no
longer have access to it. Can someone recommend a program to use at
home for creating schematic drawings? I don't care if it is payware as
long as the price is reasonable. I found a couple with Google which
were several hundred bucks, a bit much for my needs.

Do recent Visio releases still have schematic drawing capability? I
went to the Microsoft website and they advertise all kinds of drawing
capabilities, but not schematics.

Thanks in advance,

Bill, W6WRT

Here's an open source prog that works pretty well.
http://tinycad.sourceforge.net/
It makes nice schematics and is pretty easy to use.
Mike

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Take a peek at gEDA

http://www.geda.seul.org

Schematic drawing, PCB layout, modeling, the whole shot. And it's free

...

Bill Turner wrote:
longer have access to it. Can someone recommend a program to use at
home for creating schematic drawings? I don't care if it is payware as


Try EAGLE, at www.cadsoft.de

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David Snyder Hale wrote:

Bill Turner wrote:
longer have access to it. Can someone recommend a program to use at
home for creating schematic drawings? I don't care if it is payware as


Try EAGLE, at www.cadsoft.de



Eagle is crippleware, but with lot of library symbols. Any PCB's will be
limited to two layers and 100mm by 80mm size.

I also think there is a limitation on the hierarchy of schematic
subdrawings.


Go get KiCad. GPL license, no limitations and runs on both Linux and
Windooze. You find KiCad on the net for download.


//Cheers


Dan / M0DFI