schematic drawing software

[Lizard King]

What software do y'all use to draw up your schematics?

I'm looking for a simple (read cheap) program to draw up a schematic or two. I don't envision myself using it more than 4 or 5 times. Are there any shareware programs worthwhile. I did a web search and found a few programs. Only two would load, one was pretty bad the other ran out of the demo version before I had gotten to my first tube.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

[Lizard King]

sorry

I searched on schematic and found nothing...then I tried drawing....MY BAD

[Manic]

I have no idea if any of these progs are what guys around here are using. Your post reminded Me that I could also use a scem drawing program.
Searching google I found this....
http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/t.mpl?f=tubediy&m=133078

...and this

http://geek.scorpiorising.ca/scripts.html

and more here plus some interesting reading...not the I understand most of it..lol, but its fun to try.

http://geek.scorpiorising.ca/GeeK_Zo...p?topic=2682.0

I figured I would check them out, thought You might like to as well.

[Tubenit]

Schematic drawing software

There are quite a few programs. Several which are free are :

ExpressSCH

http://www.expresspcb.com/ExpressPCB...c_software.htm

and this one also which works fine with MAC's :

http://dhost.info/jschem/

You can find a lengthy list of editable schematics drawn up here:

http://www.el34world.com/Forum/yabb2...ard=Schematics


With respect, Tubenit

[jack20]

Visio is good but expensive. So a cheaper yet good alternative is Gadwin Systems' Diagram Studio. Costs US $49 and is really good. Only that their support service is BAA...D. They would not just reply even if you are a registered user. Hardly any bug except very minor ones.

[basscheez]

You could use Eagle (www.cadsoft.de) It's a PCB layout program, but does decent schematics.

[Don Moose]

KiCAD is free and works great on Windows boxes.
It seems to work on my Ubuntu box.
If doesn't work (yet) on the Mac - a couple of folks are claiming success, but I haven't had any luck following their recipes.

Schematics and layouts up to 16 layers.

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[jack20]

Visio is perhaps the only software that I have found so far which can assign a shape to more than one layer.

Does anyone know of another software?

I just tried Diagram Studio and then Smart Draw. Basically both are good but some basic features like above do not exist.