Free Schematic Drawing Programs?

[jorgen.bergfors at idg.se]

Please tell me what a dedicated schematics drawing program does, that you can't 
do in a generic drawing program. I use Corel Draw and I produce very 
professional looking schemos with it.

/Jorgen





MIME:magnus at analogue.org on 98-08-10 23.17.53
To:  costello at seanet.com @ SMTP 
cc:  synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl @ SMTP  (bcc: Jorgen Bergfors/IDGSE)
Subject: Re: Free Schematic Drawing Programs? 

>>>>> "SC" == Sean Costello <costello at seanet.com> writes:

 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