Deign Software

[pjhill]

Hi,

Does anyone know of any good, free Electrical design software?

 

[pmac10]

what do you want to design? circuit drawings, circuit simulation?

 

[pjhill]

what do you want to design? circuit drawings, circuit simulation?

I would like to do a bit of both but circuit drawings more.

 

[pmac10]

National Instruments MultiSim is what i use for circuit simulation but its really for electronic circuits, i 'acquired' Eplan last week but was in german so dumped it. im now in the process of learning AutoCad Electrical.
microsoft Visio is an add on to microsoft office suite is quite good if you can get the symbols you need, an option is to fragment the symbols that come with it an build your own

 

[pjhill]

National Instruments MultiSim is what i use for circuit simulation but its really for electronic circuits, i 'acquired' Eplan last week but was in german so dumped it. im now in the process of learning AutoCad Electrical.
microsoft Visio is an add on to microsoft office suite is quite good if you can get the symbols you need, an option is to fragment the symbols that come with it an build your own

Is auto cad free? I've got visio on my laptop so ill have a play with it? Do you know where you can get the symbols from?

 

[pmac10]

Is auto cad free? I've got visio on my laptop so ill have a play with it? Do you know where you can get the symbols from?

i cant possibly comment further on that first question, but my mate who uses visio has made his own symbols by fragmenting existing ones a building his own, i personally am not a fan but he produces good drawings