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richidoo
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Schematic drafting program?
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May 18, 2007, 08:55:05 AM »
Is there a simple to use, free electronic drafting program? Can be all manual, no PCB tracing, no simulation, just to draw schematics, with symbols built in.
Thanks!
Rich
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mgalusha
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Re: Schematic drafting program?
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June 26, 2007, 06:38:18 PM »
Hmm, sorry I didn't see this sooner Rich. There are several that work pretty well and are free.
TinyCAD works pretty well and the author is very active. The project is open source.
http://tinycad.sourceforge.net/
What I use most of the time is LTSpice. This is a free SPICE program from Linear Technologies and gives you SPICE in addition to schematic capture.
http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/
You can also use PCB123 (
http://www.pcb123.com/pcb123.html
). Though they give it away in hopes that you will buy a circuit board, it's a pretty good schematic capture tool as well.
I actually prefer the interface of ExpressPCB and schematic capture but it won't print them mirrored for making your own boards.
. Too bad, as the UI is quite nice.
http://www.expresspcb.com/
mike
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richidoo
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Re: Schematic drafting program?
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June 29, 2007, 06:24:35 PM »
Thanks Mike, that is very helpful. A few of yours I had not heard of. I set my friend up with expressPCB because it looked simplest and he is not computer savvy. I will check out the others myself though.
Rich
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