software for making schematics
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Topic: software for making schematics
Posted By: blu_olr
Subject: software for making schematics
Date Posted: March 19, 2012 at 10:01 AM
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
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Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: March 19, 2012 at 12:33 PM
https://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.
Posted By: oldspark
Date Posted: March 19, 2012 at 8:10 PM
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.
Posted By: bihili
Date Posted: April 05, 2012 at 2:00 PM
https://circuitdiagram.codeplex.com/
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Posted By: amaliajiff
Date Posted: April 25, 2012 at 12:16 AM
s there any free or low cost software you can download to make schematics or diagrams for tube electronics.
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amaliajiff
Posted By: jderrick
Date Posted: April 27, 2012 at 11:08 PM
Eagles part library is unmatched. However if you need to simulate you should go with a spice engine like pspice, ltspice, zpsice, multisim, etc
Posted By: oldspark
Date Posted: April 28, 2012 at 12:07 AM
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).
Posted By: devrygirl77
Date Posted: May 05, 2012 at 1:04 AM
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I like Multisim.
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Wendy Zahnd
Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: May 06, 2012 at 9:46 AM
I use OrCAD, but it's not free. ------------- Support the12volt.com
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