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bson:

--- Quote from: mikerj on September 13, 2018, 11:08:47 am ---Take a look at Draw.io.  I've been using it for block diagrams and flow charts for a while and it's done a fine job.

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I second this.  Perfect for internal, informal engineering documentation.  No need for a bloated office package.  Integrates nicely with internal wikis.

admiralk:

--- Quote from: bson on September 15, 2018, 08:40:39 pm --- No need for a bloated office package.

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Unless you already have one. Or, want to collaborate with someone who does. Or, use it in a portfolio where it will be shown to people that do.

In other words, if it is just for yourself, use whatever gets the job done. If you plan to use it in a presentation, it would be better to use a format that your audience will be able to view, which would more likely be Visio, autocad, or something along those lines.

mikerj:

--- Quote from: admiralk on September 16, 2018, 12:14:23 am ---
--- Quote from: bson on September 15, 2018, 08:40:39 pm --- No need for a bloated office package.

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Unless you already have one. Or, want to collaborate with someone who does. Or, use it in a portfolio where it will be shown to people that do.

In other words, if it is just for yourself, use whatever gets the job done. If you plan to use it in a presentation, it would be better to use a format that your audience will be able to view, which would more likely be Visio, autocad, or something along those lines.

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Draw.io diagrams can be exported as an image, an SVG file, a PDF file, a VSDX (Visio) file format, and HTML or XML file.   Additionally Draw.IO works straight through a browser, so anyone can access it for reading or editing in it's native format.

TBH if it's going into a presentation then it's likely an image file is needed anyway.

Berni:

--- Quote from: eev_carl on September 15, 2018, 03:09:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: Berni on September 13, 2018, 11:19:26 am ---I tend to use Corel Draw for diagrams.

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Did you create the symbols yourself or do you have a vector library or font?  I read that Corel 12 might have had some but nothing's coming up in the latest version when I search Connect.

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I just draw the symbols myself.

If you use CorelDraw for a bit you get pretty quick at drawing such simple shapes from scratch, for more complex things you can copypaste them from somewhere else since it can open PDFs and a bunch of other formats. But most of the time i just need mostly rectangular shapes and lines anyway. I even use it for some 2D planning stuff by drawing things in 1:1 scale. For example i used it for planing furniture layout in a room by simply representing furniture as rectangles and then playing around with it by dragging them around the rooms outline. It may not be the best tool for doing diagrams but it gets the job done every time and gets it done quickly for me.

If its for anything relating to schematics then i just draw it in Altium Designer since that's my electronics CAD package of choice.

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