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| ledtester:
Speaking of Inkscape, there is a nice tutorial on using it for circuits: https://youtu.be/ITpjjDETGk8 |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: kelemvor on September 16, 2019, 07:07:03 pm --- --- Quote from: oPossum on September 16, 2019, 05:59:34 pm ---KiCad and EAGLE are probably the most popular. Also take a look at Fritzing. --- End quote --- Thanks for the suggestions! I drew it up in kicad. Although it appears extremely capable, it also seems very kludgy to use. Not sure I want to use it long term. I guess I'll give Eagle a shot next. --- End quote --- Good luck. I found Eagle even more kludgy. At work we use Proteus, but I prefer LTSpice for schematics. |
| jfiresto:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on September 16, 2019, 08:09:05 pm --- ... If you want to produce schematics that will not look like crap aliased shit in a book/PDF, use software that can export them to a vectorial format.... KiCad can do that. Eagle can't AFAIK, and I personally find schematics from Eagle look really bad. --- End quote --- Eagle 6.6 under OSX lets you print to a file. The resulting PDF renders nicely on a printed page, but less so at certain resolutions on screen. I clean up an Eagle part's schematic symbol when I fix and clean up its pad layout. The results can be pretty reasonable after some extra work. But then that no longer surprises me about Eagle. |
| amyk:
A generic vector graphics program will let you have more control over the appearance, and you can put non-schematic-ish things on it too, but won't have the specific features e.g. automatically moving nets around as you move the connected parts that schematics software can do. If you're just redrawing an existing schematic, it might not matter too much. --- Quote from: kelemvor on September 16, 2019, 05:48:44 pm ---I'm working on translating a product manual from Chinese to English. It's a hobby thing, I'm no pro. It's for a power inverter board. --- End quote --- Does the manual also include scantily dressed girls holding the product? :P |
| TERRA Operative:
--- Quote from: MarkF on September 16, 2019, 07:21:11 pm ---Forget all those. My goto tool is DipTrace. More intuitive in my opinion. --- End quote --- My vote os for DipTrace as well. After mutliple rounds in the ring fighting Kicad and bashing my head against the UI, DipTrace just makes sense. It's a breeze to use in comparison. |
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