Schematic Drawing Program

[Baktown]

Greetings all,

Does anyone have a recommendation for a program to draw schematics?

Thanks in advance!

Axl Bundy

[soulsonic]

I've been using ExpressSCH and it works very well for me. It's easy to use and it's easy to create your own custom symbols.
http://www.expresspcb.com/ExpressPCBHtm/Free_cad_software.htm

[Baktown]

Thanks!

Axl

[Ronsonic]

Eagle is free for the trial / student version and more than enough for anything pedal related. There are component files specific to our craft (search around here) and it is integrated with a PCB layout program that any board house can deal with.

Ron

[ambulancevoice]

any chance that these programs are avalible for mac???
cause i couldnt install eagle

[aron]

I just paid the very small sum and use "DesignWorks Lite" for the Macintosh.

[Nikolay]

I use Altium designer. It's not too easy to understand everything, but I love it. It's really proffesional!

[Alex C]

ExpressSCH, as soulsonic mentioned, has worked well for me in the past.

I believe it was stm who recommended this program to me:
Spectrum Software Micro-Cap 9

The evaluation version is free, doesn't expire, and is available from the menu on the left- it's limited compared to the full version, but just fine for most DIY-type stuff, and I like the look of it.
An example is stm's BB&E (click).

-Alex

[alanlan]

any chance that these programs are avalible for mac???
cause i couldnt install eagle

ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/eagle/program/4.16r2/eagle-m11-eng-4.16r2.tgz

[Dragonfly]

I'm old school...I use Paint. 

[aron]

I just posted this one a little while ago:

http://www.physicsbox.com/indexsolveelec2en.html

[Baktown]

Aron,

Have you loaded this yet?  It doesn't have any capacitors in the component library!

Axl

[aron]

I only ran it once. I am trying to find my old files for spice which I ran on my XP computer. I use that Design Works Lite for most things or paper!

I'm re-downloading it now to check it out.