Free Schematic Drawing Programs?

[Graeme Nelson]

hi -

i found this ftp address that contains a program called circad, it seems 
to be a dos schematic drawing program.  easytrax PCB programs is also in 
this directory.

http://ftp.unina.it/pub/electronics/ftp.armory.com/PCBDRW/

hope this helps.
graeme

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>From: Magnus Danielson <magnus at analogue.org>
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>>>>>> "SC" == Sean Costello <costello at seanet.com> writes:
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> SC> Hi all:
> SC> I'm finally starting to get some of my projects off of the ground, 
and
> SC> I'd like to be able to share my ideas with people (I'm actually 
looking
> SC> for criticism, so that I can get these circuits to be better).  
Can
> SC> anyone on the list recommend any good freeware (or shareware) 
schematics
> SC> drawing programs?  I'm running Windoze 98 (i.e. Windows 95 with 
the "5"
> SC> crossed out and replaced with an "8") and Linux, but I can't say I
> SC> really know my way around Linux yet, so Windows applications are
> SC> preferred.
>
>Well, since you said that you didn't know your way around in Linux I
>obviously have to propose a software available on Linux. Althought in
>heavy development you might find GEDA interesting to test. It is a GNU
>project which involves a schematic editor and a PCB layout program is
>comming along. These guys are being very serious about what they are
>doing and spend time to figure out how things ought to work. GEDA is
>now Guile powered (a Scheme implementation, scheme is a LISP dialect).
>It is free allright, but still a bit rought. I have just tried it
>briefly so I can't really say weither it is good, but there is
>potential. I think at least that you should look at it and give it a
>try, it is free so... 
>
>Please check http://www.geda.seul.org/
>
>Have fun!
>Magnus
>


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