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are drawing normal schematics a dying art?

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m3vuv:
looking at some circuit designs online it looks to me like a lot of ppl are using this Fritzing thing,i find them horrid,look like sommat out of a 2yr olds scribbleing book,whats ppls views on it?,give me a proper schematic any day!!.

m98:
Normal schematics haven't gone anywhere. Fritzing has its small niche in being the perfect software to document breadboard and stripboard circuits. But I find those drawings more comparable to a PCB layout, rather than a schematics replacement.

m3vuv:
horses for courses i suppose,i find them hard as i like to visulise them in my head as a normal schematic,its what your used to i suppose,i think i have only used a bread board once,find them teribly unreliable,i prefer veroboard.

Zero999:
I've never heard of Fritzing, so I Googled it and I do recognise the graphics, which some people have posted here, when asking beginner questions.

I use a KiCAD, LTSpice, Proteus and sometimes MS/K Paint for drawing schematics, depending on the situation.

I agree that I find a layout much more difficult to read, than a proper schematic and I've politely told people this, when they've posted them.

mc172:
I don't think they're meant to be easy to read for the purpose of understanding at-a-glance how a circuit works, they make it easy for people to build simple circuits without a lot of prior knowledge.

They even say something to this effect on their website:

--- Quote ---Fritzing is an open-source hardware initiative that makes electronics accessible as a creative material for anyone. We offer a software tool, a community website and services in the spirit of Processing and Arduino, fostering a creative ecosystem that allows users to document their prototypes, share them with others, teach electronics in a classroom, and layout and manufacture professional PCBs.
--- End quote ---

The last bit is perhaps stretching the truth a bit...

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