[Gmecm] Schematic drawing program

[Steve Ravet]

I've tried a few schematic capture programs and my feeling is that for
some reason, people who write schematic capture think they're GUI design
geniuses also.  I think you have to go out of your way to break GUI
conventions in windows, with the API calls all wrapped up in class
libraries and stuff, but somehow they manage to do it.

Eagle is OK, I used it for the USB-VPW project I'm working on.  I plan
on trying winqcad (www.winqcad.com) also. I would have used it for rev2
of the USB-VPW board but it doesn't import Eagle and I didn't feel like
redoing the whole thing.

--steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gmecm-bounces at diy-efi.org 
> [mailto:gmecm-bounces at diy-efi.org] On Behalf Of William Lucke
> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 12:38 PM
> To: gmecm at diy-efi.org
> Subject: [Gmecm] Schematic drawing program
> 
> What would be a good (preferably free) program to draw 
> schematics/circuit diagrams (not necessarily plan a board layout)?

I've tried a few schematic capture programs and my feeling is that for
some reason, people who write schematic capture think they're GUI design
geniuses also.  I think you have to go out of your way to break GUI
conventions in windows, with the API calls all wrapped up in class
libraries and stuff, but somehow they manage to do it.

Eagle is OK, I used it for the USB-VPW project I'm working on.  I plan
on trying winqcad (www.winqcad.com) also. I would have used it for rev2
of the USB-VPW board but it doesn't import Eagle and I didn't feel like
redoing the whole thing.