Electrical circuit diagram Cad??

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Steve

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I have been following a recent post, looking for an electronic circuit Cad
program.

I need a Cad program or simple drafting program that will allow me to draw
electrical wiring diagrams.. I am about 90% complete wiring a 38 ft sail
boat and because of all the equipment, I'm beginning to loose track of the
circuit runs. I keep track the best I can with 'as built' sketches, using
drafting templates, but I really want to do a proper job.

I have posted this inquiry in the rec.boats.electronics but all I ever get
are recommendations for electronic circuit and PCB design programs.

In the simpler ones I find very few symbols in the library that pertain to
these types of components. The type of diagram I want to produce is somewhat
similar to an automotive wiring diagram, showing wire colors, markings,
routing, etc.

Some of the components that should be represented are battery banks, battery
selector switches and circuit breakers, inverter/charger, amp meters, volt
meter, freq. meter, both AC and DC distribution panels, sub panels, GFI
monitoring, equipment bonding system, electrolysis control monitor/control
system, solar panels, windgenerator, engine gen., aux generator system, tank
level monitoring circuits, bilge monitor/pumping control..

As you can see the list goes on and on.. Right now I have a lot of it in my
head and on hand drawn pages in a note book..

Anyone have a recommendation that isn't going to require me to learn AutoCad
or something as complicated..

Thanks
Steve
 
"Steve" <esteve@hctc.com> wrote in message
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I have been following a recent post, looking for an electronic circuit Cad
program.

I need a Cad program or simple drafting program that will allow me to draw
electrical wiring diagrams.. I am about 90% complete wiring a 38 ft sail
boat and because of all the equipment, I'm beginning to loose track of the
circuit runs. I keep track the best I can with 'as built' sketches, using
drafting templates, but I really want to do a proper job.

I have posted this inquiry in the rec.boats.electronics but all I ever get
are recommendations for electronic circuit and PCB design programs.

In the simpler ones I find very few symbols in the library that pertain to
these types of components. The type of diagram I want to produce is
somewhat
similar to an automotive wiring diagram, showing wire colors, markings,
routing, etc.

Some of the components that should be represented are battery banks,
battery
selector switches and circuit breakers, inverter/charger, amp meters, volt
meter, freq. meter, both AC and DC distribution panels, sub panels, GFI
monitoring, equipment bonding system, electrolysis control monitor/control
system, solar panels, windgenerator, engine gen., aux generator system,
tank
level monitoring circuits, bilge monitor/pumping control..

As you can see the list goes on and on.. Right now I have a lot of it in
my
head and on hand drawn pages in a note book..

Anyone have a recommendation that isn't going to require me to learn
AutoCad
or something as complicated..

Thanks
Steve


Have you had a look at Visio ??
Click to expand...
A pretty handy program for many things you may wish to put to paper. You get
to pick which type of dwg to produce, ie mech eng, elect eng etc etc.

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Regards ............... Rheilly Phoull
 
"Steve" <esteve@hctc.com> wrote:

I have been following a recent post, looking for an electronic circuit Cad
program.

I need a Cad program or simple drafting program that will allow me to draw
electrical wiring diagrams.. I am about 90% complete wiring a 38 ft sail
boat and because of all the equipment, I'm beginning to loose track of the
circuit runs. I keep track the best I can with 'as built' sketches, using
drafting templates, but I really want to do a proper job.
snip
Click to expand...

I've never worked on boat circuits, but reckon I'd consider several
options:

1. Visio, as already recommended. It has a reasonable set of
templates, as you can see from this illustration I've assembled
hastily:
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Images/VisioExamples.gif
Together with its many templates for lines, arrows, boxes, etc, and
its text facilities, it could give you the flexibility you want.

2. Microsoft Word. Making my own templates and using the program's
reasonable drawing facilities.

3. PaintShop Pro. Ditto. And as an example of what you can do with
this approach, see Tony van Roon's work at
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/circ/
He says: "I made a template with all necessary electronic symbols and
icons and copy-and-paste whatever I need, then connect the lines, add
color, etc."

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK
 
"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@dial.pipexTHIS.com> wrote in message
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"Steve" <esteve@hctc.com> wrote:

I have been following a recent post, looking for an electronic circuit
Cad
program.

I need a Cad program or simple drafting program that will allow me to
draw
electrical wiring diagrams.. I am about 90% complete wiring a 38 ft sail
boat and because of all the equipment, I'm beginning to loose track of
the
circuit runs. I keep track the best I can with 'as built' sketches, using
drafting templates, but I really want to do a proper job.
snip

I've never worked on boat circuits, but reckon I'd consider several
options:

1. Visio, as already recommended. It has a reasonable set of
templates, as you can see from this illustration I've assembled
hastily:
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Images/VisioExamples.gif
Together with its many templates for lines, arrows, boxes, etc, and
its text facilities, it could give you the flexibility you want.

2. Microsoft Word. Making my own templates and using the program's
reasonable drawing facilities.

3. PaintShop Pro. Ditto. And as an example of what you can do with
this approach, see Tony van Roon's work at
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/circ/
He says: "I made a template with all necessary electronic symbols and
icons and copy-and-paste whatever I need, then connect the lines, add
color, etc."

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

Should the opportunity arise to aquire Orcad 9.0 :), the part editor in
Click to expand...
that program is very easy to use and it doesn't take long to create you're
own libraries !!
Makes anything possible, I have my own library for veroboard for instance.

--
Regards ............... Rheilly Phoull
 
I need a Cad program...to draw electrical wiring diagrams
Steve

Orcad...the part editor in that program is very easy to use
and it doesn't take long to create your own libraries
Rheilly Phoull
Click to expand...
The Library editor in CadSoft EAGLE can do the same.
It can generate 1-page schematics.
(The free version doesn't do tabbed-page drawings.)
 
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