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| galvanix:
Hello! Does anyone here know which software was used to create the following schematic diagrams? I've also seen a similar diagram on Alan Yates' (VK2ZAY) website like this . Obviously drawing stuff up in KiCad and exporting it won't look nearly as neat as these diagrams so I was wondering which software was used to do that. Thanks! |
| Benta:
Very pretty, I agree. I'd say any graphics software, where electronics symbols are available or even home made. Certainly not a CAD schematic program. Most likely, the author has moved from paper to graphics directly. Nice. |
| Doctorandus_P:
Schematics made for some magazines used to be re-drawn in a DTP or other graphical program just for the purpose of publishing, while other magazines used to just reprint whatever format was available. Especially Elector has a distinctive house style for schematics and somewhere in the '80ies they wrote an article about this process. It was not just about the "house style" but also the length to width ratio to fit with columns of text etc. Apart from that, I fail to see why these 2 schematics would be so "beautiful". they are severely pixelated (slanted lines, circles, texts). They do have a sort of "clean" feel to them. Part of this is because they keep to the most common conventions of signal flow from left to right and voltages from North to South. Another part of it is is probably because all the refdes numbers are not shown. --- Quote from: galvanix on May 20, 2020, 09:02:58 pm ---Obviously drawing stuff up in KiCad and exporting it won't look nearly as neat as these diagrams so I was wondering which software was used to do that. --- End quote --- I do not agree at all with this. KiCad's default schematic symbols are simple and practical, but KiCad has enough flexibility to make a schematic look much alike to what is shown here. You would just have to experiment a bit with line widths and make some loops on the inductor symbols and other small things like that. I have not found a way to use another font in KiCad, but KiCad's font looks very similar to the font used in these pictures anyway. |
| richard.cs:
I have never used it but KISSCAD ( https://ludens.cl/Electron/kisscad/kisscad.html ) claims to do the kind of pretty diagrams you are after. Certainly I think a lot of the more recent schematics on his website are drawn in it. |
| olkipukki:
--- Quote from: Benta on May 20, 2020, 09:20:38 pm ---Certainly not a CAD schematic program. --- End quote --- Why not? I cannot say for all CADs, but most allow to draw basic elements and there are plenty free fonts available too. |
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