Hello Folks,
So far I used to draw block diagrams with other (more mechanical) CAD
software but that gets old. Is there a fairly easy way to do that with
Eagle?
It's not about anything being ERC-proof at all, just to illustrate the
function of electronic devices. Boxes, text, lines with arrows at one
end and such.
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Joerg wrote:
Visio has been mentioned, there are free alternatives as
http://live.gnome.org/Dia and OpenOffice.org Draw or Inkscape might
also do the job.
Yes, those work. They aren't quite as intuitive and simple as CAD
though. Maybe I fire up the old SDT. Somehow stuff was easier in the DOS
you wouldn't write so if you had used them more then Eagle.
days. Or maybe I am getting old.
If you are a text-centric programmer, you might consider AT&T
http://www.graphviz.org/. It's sometimes more efficient to describe
the dependencies in a text form and rely on the software to arrange
the elements than to pull items around with the mouse.
That one looks really nerdy
You get pretty results rather fast.
Oliver
Joerg wrote:
Visio has been mentioned, there are free alternatives as
http://live.gnome.org/Dia and OpenOffice.org Draw or Inkscape might
also do the job.
Yes, those work. They aren't quite as intuitive and simple as CAD
though. Maybe I fire up the old SDT. Somehow stuff was easier in the DOS
you wouldn't write so if you had used them more then Eagle.
days. Or maybe I am getting old.
If you are a text-centric programmer, you might consider AT&T
http://www.graphviz.org/. It's sometimes more efficient to describe
the dependencies in a text form and rely on the software to arrange
the elements than to pull items around with the mouse.
That one looks really nerdy
You get pretty results rather fast.
Oliver
Oliver Betz wrote:
Joerg wrote:
Visio has been mentioned, there are free alternatives as
http://live.gnome.org/Dia and OpenOffice.org Draw or Inkscape might
also do the job.
Yes, those work. They aren't quite as intuitive and simple as CAD
though. Maybe I fire up the old SDT. Somehow stuff was easier in the DOS
you wouldn't write so if you had used them more then Eagle.
Oh, I did. For over 10 years. The reason why I stopped was mainly the
printer support and export utilities. DOS-Word and SDT were a perfect
team but since clients now want Word-97 compatible files and Microsoft
broke the old compatibility chain it's not as easy anymore. If MS hadn't
done that this would have been a no-brainer.
Eagle is ok but the fact that it cannot do hierarchical designs will be
the reason for me to abandon it some day.
days. Or maybe I am getting old.
If you are a text-centric programmer, you might consider AT&T
http://www.graphviz.org/. It's sometimes more efficient to describe
the dependencies in a text form and rely on the software to arrange
the elements than to pull items around with the mouse.
That one looks really nerdy
You get pretty results rather fast.
True, text based programs are fast but the learning curve for
non-programmers like me is steep.
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Regards, Joerg
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