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Ladies and Gents,
What program do you recommend or use for documenting schematic drawings? I would prefer a free version or extremely low cost program.
I'm not too interested in circuit simulation but I'd like to have PICs included in the library.
Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
I use EAGLE, they have a free version available (with limitations) and then various licenses depending on what you need. It involves a bit of a learnig curve but so does all programs of this kind.
Other popular programs are KiCAD, which is free and open source, and DIPTrace which has various versions available.
/Henrik.
I use TinyCad simple and complete. It is free and can be downloaded @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinycad/
Cheers
Al.
I tried a few free versions but decided that the time investment in Eagle was the way to go for me as it can meet all my forseeable future needs - and appears on the software accepted by many PCB manufacturers.
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Originally Posted by HenrikOlsson
I have been playing with Dip Trace. They just released a beta version with 3D board modeling.
http://diptrace.com/download.php
Also, here is a link to an open source schematic/board design program.
http://www.freepcb.com/
I have to say that PCB Artist is a very good choice. I have been using it for 4 years and found it to be a very good product....free, stable, large component library, easy to design your own custom components, great documentation, low learning curve, outstanding tech support. I tried PCB123, Eagle LITE and others and came back to PCB Artist.Quote:
Originally Posted by AvionicsMaster1
You can download a free copy from http://www.4pcb.com/free-pcb-layout-software/
DesignSpark is looking very good and totally free...
http://www.designspark.com/