software for making schematics

Hi guys,

I have been looking for decent software to compile electrical schematics, anyone have personal experience with autocad electrical or other similar programs. User friendly, and reliable of course.

bLu

http://bcae1.com/  At the top of the page, just below the banner,  there is a link titled EMail, his name is Perry, tell him some Idiot sent you.  He will be able to answer all of your questions.

I assumed you meant the drawing of circuit diagrams... WRT freeware or free limited versions, I thought of Eagle, but that's a PCB design package, and I can't recall what users used to make the original circuit diagram (if that were to be captured).     There are a few freebie circuit paks like TinyCAD (sorceforge) and ExpressPCB. There should be several alternatives if prepared to pay. Decades ago I used Racal (circuit diagrams) and CadStar (PCB design). They were "not expensive" (~$5k), but that was compared other packages that cost over $100k. There was also a Tasmanian package called Protel which was cheap and popular... Alas I've lost track of all that stuff. Forums seemed to like Eagle as it had a useful free version and multiple output formats. I too would have to google.

http://circuitdiagram.codeplex.com/1957-427-177-6-488

s there any free or low cost software you can download to make schematics or diagrams for tube electronics.amaliajiff

Eagles part library is unmatched. However if you need to simulate you should go with a spice engine like pspice, ltspice, zpsice, multisim, etc

Agree to Spice. And Eagle is very popular for PCB layouts, though I think the free version is limited to 2 layers, and maybe size etc. bihili's linked CircuitDiagram seems good and has user-definable components, though it wouldn't install on my last gasp PC (so I haven't used it).

< language=> I like Multisim.Wendy Zahnd

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