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Renan
Hello,
I'm looking for a freeware CAD program to draw electronics circuits.
Anybody knows any such program?
Thanks.
I'm looking for a freeware CAD program to draw electronics circuits.
Anybody knows any such program?
Thanks.
maybe Diagram Designer atHello,
I'm looking for a freeware CAD program to draw electronics circuits.
Anybody knows any such program?
Thanks.
Renan said:I'm looking for a freeware CAD program to draw electronics circuits.
Anybody knows any such program?
http://www.linear.com/company/software.jsp
Others have given links to circuit board layout progs, if that is what
you want.
Roger said:You probably need a spice program and the best is
LTSpice/SwitcherCAD III, here
http://www.linear.com/company/software.jsp
Others have given links to circuit board layout progs, if that is what
you want.
Normally you develop the circuit in a spice program, and that is also
a drawing program to draw circuits with. Later you may want to make a
circuit board, then you use a circuit board layout program, like
Eagle.
John said:Cadsoft Eagle Layout Editor.
Freeware version limited to 4x3.2 inch size and 2 single layers.
More than ample for experimenters.
http://www.cadsoft.de/
J Free
I´ve got rid of Eagle. Their official (internet) ANTI MIcrosoft
outsays... I am not going to support such a company.
Well, one person (private)...that´s normal. But a serious company???
Flaming against MS with absolutely wrong arguments, at all!! ;-)
Yes, LTSpice is a very good freeware. I would suggest to bundle it with
'FREEPCB'
http://www.freepcb.com/home.html
the best Freeware Elektronic CAD I have ever seen. Better than Eagle
Shite (Eagle is too expensive and too weak programmed, due to weak and
coward programmers).
Renan said:I will need both.
Thanks!
Roger said:I should be honest and tell you that I don't use LTSpice myself, the
interface is not intuitive enough. I prefer EWB version 5c. It has a
better interface but it doesn't have the speed and precision of
LTSpice. Real engineers see EWB as a toy, as some cheap crap, and the
pros would never use EWB.
But I am more interested in having fun than in creating very good
circuits. EWB is not freeware and it is not for sale anymore ;-).
Customers who bought the newer versions of EWB wanted a copy of EWB
5.0c together with the new program, because the new program was
useless, and the company gave them the old program for free if the
customer demanded it, but I doubt they are still doing that.
You need to train for half an hour to use LTSpice, EWB is very simple
to start using immediately. Things look like a normal workbench, you
drag out the oscilloscope on the work area to use it, use the controls
just like on a real oscilloscope, wires are made by drag-n-drop from
the contact points. Push the power button to give power to the circuit
and see what happens.
Later versions of Electronics Workbench are based on a new engine and
have had problems with many bugs. Nobody has ever produced a better
spice prog than EWB5c if we value the user interface highly.
If I ever need to design a serious and complicated circuit I will use
LTSpice as a complement, to check out what happens in a really good
and modern spice simulator.
If I really worked with electronics I would learn to use LTSpice.
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