software to draw nice schematics for documentation

• Apr 6, 2006

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Which software do you use to draw nice schematics for documentation?
I think Cadence and other EDA softwares makes very ugly schematics which don't look beauty in the documentation.

So, what do you use?

 

• Apr 7, 2006

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VISIO

 

• Apr 8, 2006

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I use visio 2002.

 

• Apr 8, 2006

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i use visio too.

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viedraw also do a good job.

 

• Apr 10, 2006

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drabos said:

Which software do you use to draw nice schematics for documentation?
I think Cadence and other EDA softwares makes very ugly schematics which don't look beauty in the documentation.

So, what do you use?

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u can use smartdraw. It is easy to use and to transfer to microsoft word.

 

• Apr 10, 2006

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And can you tell me how can I define new shapes in visio?

 

• Apr 10, 2006

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What's Viedraw?

 

• Apr 11, 2006

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Have the plot from the schematic composer and save it as *.ps and this would
give you the finest schematic.

 

• Apr 11, 2006

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You can use proteus it generates professional looking schematic diagrams

 

• Apr 12, 2006

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Is there a software like visio for linux??

 

• Apr 17, 2006

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guess u can try xcircuit in linux.

 

• May 12, 2006

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Try VISIO

 

• May 12, 2006

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I try too much different editors. The best for Windows - Rplan 5.0 or 6.0 !

 

• May 12, 2006

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i am using smart draw

 

• May 13, 2006

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Visio is a good tool to draw schematics.and Protel is a good software,too.surely,you can try ECS.

 

• May 14, 2006

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VISIO is the best

 

• May 14, 2006

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VISIO is good. Although for free softwares, TinyCAD is really good, also Eagle from Cadsoft is very good, you can make your own symbol in both and the schematics look really good in them, right now I use Eagle for all my documentation needs. Its very fast once you ave made your custom library.

 

• Jun 26, 2006

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Do you know how to setup "hotkey" for visio? I'm annoyed by moving my mouse
to edit everything in visio. I would like to use keyboard to perform the function like
zoom in/out, wiring...etc.

Anybody know how to get this?
Thanks,

 

• Jun 28, 2006

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