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Offline orbiterTopic starter

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Handy quick free design tool..
« on: May 29, 2011, 11:28:11 am »
You may like to to try this out guys? It looks and works ok and may just come in handy sometime. I've bunged it in my favourites already :)

http://www.dz863.com/index.php
 

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Re: Handy quick free design tool..
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2011, 01:24:28 pm »
it's just for drawing schematics ? I'd just use any of the free schematic/pcb packages although if it is quite intuitive i suppose good for quickies
 

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Re: Handy quick free design tool..
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2011, 02:25:18 pm »
It looks promising, although it needs more work before it'll become usable. The biggest drawbacks at the moment are: there doesn't seem to be a mirror command and the online help didn't work for me. The drawing tools are limited but I accept it's supposed to be for electronic schematics rather than a general CAD  or art program.
 

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Re: Handy quick free design tool..
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2011, 05:22:08 am »
Hi,
   This is the webmaster of this site.The DrawSCH is beta .A lot of new functions  will be added as soon as possible.At the same time ,there are some bugs which are hidden.I need your feedback.
    Now. You don't need login to draw schematic ,export your schematic as png ,gif,svg file .More importantly , your can share your schematic on forums very easy.Just click the share button and copy the link.
 Hi orbiter ,thanks you to introduce my site.
 hi,Simon. I will do my best to improve this tool.Even it is not easy for an electronics designer.
HI, Hero999. What you means "mirror command" ? You can select the Part object and press the KEY "SPACE". or click the toolbar command to rotate selected. You can watch the https://www.youtube.com/embed/uEzNc-5p5AA. The help file is not an easy job for me,because of my poor English. May this will be done by some of you.
thanks again.
« Last Edit: May 30, 2011, 07:18:19 am by drawsch »
 

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Re: Handy quick free design tool..
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2011, 06:15:44 pm »
HI, Hero999. What you means "mirror command" ? You can select the Part object and press the KEY "SPACE". or click the toolbar command to rotate selected.
I know about the rotate command.

I'm talking about a flip or mirror command. Look in the mirror and you don't see a rotated view of yourself but a mirror image.

For example, you can't draw the following schematic, as is, without a mirror command.

« Last Edit: May 30, 2011, 10:02:05 pm by Hero999 »
 

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Re: Handy quick free design tool..
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2011, 09:25:32 pm »
Hi Hero999. You are right.I don't use "mirror command" before, I will add this command latter after some bugs are fixed. thanks.
 

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Re: Handy quick free design tool..
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2011, 09:50:38 pm »
you need to put some "SPICE" in there. and why online? we older people prefer downloadable and run offline.
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Re: Handy quick free design tool..
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2011, 10:06:04 pm »
There are advantages of it being online: there's no need to install it, update it and can run on any computer, regardless of whether it runs Windows, Linux or Mac OS. The main disadvantages is it requires a good Internet connection, is normally slower (it will use more memory/CPU time than standalone software) and will disappear if the site goes down.
 

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Re: Handy quick free design tool..
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2011, 10:48:13 pm »
To Mechatrommer .
   online is very useful for sharing. You can put your schematics on forums very easy. you can give the link of your schematic to others to correct the schematic for you.There are a lot of "SPICE" lib at DrawSCH.
To Hero999:
  Good internet connection and good computer and good LCD screen are needed. I think that the drawSCH will be faster and the internet connection will be good later.
 

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Re: Handy quick free design tool..
« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2011, 03:00:04 am »
sure there is a way to work offline and click a menu somewhere to send/share/up/download online. instead of doing complex circuit, and then poof! when the connection terminated.
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Re: Handy quick free design tool..
« Reply #10 on: May 31, 2011, 10:00:07 am »
A web based application will never be as fast as one running on your PC, even with a perfect connection because it relies on a web browser which is a large piece of software and will use an interpreted language like Java which is slower than machine code.

Being able to share your schematic is great but using it for anything you want to keep secret is probably a bad idea.
 


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