How to Post Diagrams and Schematics?

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Whenever I the need to add a diagram or schematic to my posts on the forum I have to hand draw the diagram, scan it into the computer as a .jpg and then insert it into my post. I have noticed that there seem to be better ways to accomplish this. I would really appreciate some suggestions on how to draw and post diagrams and schematics. For example I have seen where the diagram appears as a clickable thumbnail. Also is there a better basic schematic CAD program to for use in this application. The program that I use to draw schematics works fine but the finished schematic is not transferable to a .doc or .txt format and can only be read by that specific program.

Thanks John

Robert Peter Oakes · Answer

Allot of people use FRITZING Fritzing Fritzing as this allows you to draw diagrams for breadboards as well as produce a schematic like view for example this: The site seems to be having a problem with images right now so im simply linking in the URL to them http://www.element14.com/community/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-16055-198231/1168-900/Lesson+4_bb.png and this http://www.element14.com/community/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-16055-198232/Lesson+4_schem.png these are both from one of my Arduino Video Tutorials on this forum and created using FRITZING, it is free and great if you do allot of your hobby using breadboards, it will even create a PCB layout if you want to. and if those views dont work, here is the post with them in Fast Track to Arduino Programming - Lesson 4a, Ethernet input and response test console Hope this helps

vsluiter · Answer

Although Fritzing is a great help for breadboarding it does not produce schematics as anyone in the electronics business is used to read. You can't do a simple 'opamp with transistor' schematic that's insightful at first sight, without knowing the pinout of the components. I used Circuitlab in the past when it was free. You can still use it as an editor, but have to pay for saved circuits. It produces schematics you can instantly share as an image like this: Digikey has a similar tool, and I think it is still free (haven't created an account to test yet), which is http://www.digikey.com/en/resources/scheme-it I just tried the free 'webtronics' tool, which is a bit clumsy and mostly suited for analog circuits, but completely free. You can save designs to your computer, and generate images: The amount of whitespace is quite annoying.... Greetings, Victor

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