Software For Drawing Schematics

[EETStudent]

Just curious as to what different programs all of those who make schematics are using. Looking to get into that myself, and just curious as to whats useful and not.

[Enzo]

Why don't you use the search feature here on the web site, we have discussed this before, and in fact pretty recently.

I am old school, the program here is me holding a pen over some paper.

[Don Moose]

I've been using KiCAD on windows for a few months, and it's pretty good (and free).
It doesn't quite work on the mac yet.

[TigerG]

Cutting and pasting in MSPaint is a pretty easy and easily accessible way to draw schematics. All the schematics linked from
http://www.tigergagan.com/amps.php
were done that way.

[Tiago]

Kicad is the best you can get with no money and no limitation.
I've used Protel DXP before it, and as far as my work goes, which is designing and producing the PCBs, straightforward (no simulation, no tricky things) its very cool, in one week you will be able to do almost everithing you need, even export Gerber files to a PCB produciton company.

[Mars Amp Repair]

Say,
Where do you find the components drawn to cut & paste from to Paint? glen

[TigerG]

You can copy/cut from any jpg, gif, or bmp schematic to paste to Paint. Any of the schematics linked from the amp page at my site might work as a starting point:
http://www.tigergagan.com/amps.php

[Mars Amp Repair]

Ahh, gotcha....I'd have to think it would be difficult to line up all the components with each other. I'll have to give that a try.

I couldn't find where at KiCad on that page that I could just download the program...just a bunch of files with weird tags...what am I missing....thanx, glen

[TigerG]

Yeah, I went to the KiCad page and was simlarly confused.