Electrical Cad

Microstation is best

It depends on exactly what you're trying to do. Ladder logic? One-line diagrams? Controls? Commercial building electrical layout? Printed circuit boards? Electronic circuits? No one tool is best for all.

Mart> >

We used to have a kid named Ralph. He was like a machine. Okay, he _was_ a machine. Hand him a rough schematic on a grocery bag, or pile of paper napkins, and in an afternoon, he'd have a beautiful schematic, ready to ... check.

Ralph, like a lot of drafting programs, had no understanding of what a schematic actually meant, or how the graphical elements were supposed to be, or not supposed to be, connected.

The programs that _do_ understand linkages between graphical elements are generally expensive, slow, very hard to learn or use, and can't make a 'pretty' drawing at all.

I wish I could find Ralph.

-Mike-