Electrical schematics on Linux?

What is the matter with a pencil and paper????? ...lew...

Nothing wrong.

Personally, I like to keep everything in the computer, that way I do not lose it.

There are many tools available free from PC board manufacturers, possibly even some linux versions, if not then run under an emulator perhaps?

And thank you for posting oscad and jdraft! I've got a back porch to design Real Soon Now, and am looking for better options for dimensioned drawings than xfig. Between those two and qcad, I'll have some play-time ahead....

Nobody suggested it so far :/ Open Synaptic Type "CAD" in the search box

Results will vary depending on (lack of) repositories enabled.

The programs features and description for "electric" jumped out at me :)

I don't know about this program. The point I am trying to make is use Ubuntu's built in tools and see what you get :)

(My last brush with CAD was CADAM on a 5080 terminal connected to an IBM 3083)

I found Geda, which I liked enough because I could actually finish my drawing. I did not find some symbols that I needed, like that of mag starter, but I substituted something else.

The drawing, however lame, is here:

alt.os.linux.ubuntu,comp.os.linux.misc,r

Xcurcuit

gEDA

The price is right to try.

If you remove the crosses and garlic from your computers there is a free evaluation version of PADS available from Mentor Graphics:

The currently available version runs fine under Win2000 and XP. Serious professional design software like this is why I don't run unix any more. I spent ten years at a PC-unfriendly company, struggling with the Mac and Solaris alternatives.

Jim Wilkins

Try "Cadsoft's" Eagle its a pcb program but the schematic drawing is brilliant ! Its even better if you want to make a PCB from your circuit !

On the contrary, it's a schematic drawing program, but the PCB layout feature is brilliant. ;)

It especially convenient if your PCB vendor accepts Eagle project files directly (e.g. Olimex). That way you don't have to generate gerbers (which is always harder than it should be).

OH!! Personally I like to keep things on paper that way I don't loose it. :-) ...lew...

O.K. I've not used PhotoShop (except for PhotoShop Elements), but it did take me a while to get up to speed with "the GIMP" for the things which I do. I'm still learning features as I try to do something else.

Good -- I would hate to have missed that capability in it.

Enjoy, DoN.

Great! IIRC, oscad is supposed to be really easy for someone who has used TurboCad.

About xcircuit -- It compiles (on Solaris 10), but the buttons at the top don't do anything -- no drop-down menus, nothing. And when I try to change colors, it locks up and has to be killed from outside. Do either of these sound like familiar symptoms? Things were even worse until I started using gmake instead of the standard Sun make. :-)

It behaves pretty much the same on OpenBSD (still a 64-bit UltraSPARC, FWIW -- not an Intel box.) Perhaps I should try compiling it on the Intel box with OpenBSD on it.

Thanks, DoN.

"Ignoramus8285" ...

KiCad, for Windos & Linux. Also PCB layout AFAIR.

I've used it many times to change a simple string embedded within binary files, on Linux, AIX, Solaris, HPUX and others, replacing that string with the same number of characters. Besides, all you want to do is change the first line of the text portion of a file ... no problem.

But why not just parse the file with the bash shell instead of editing it? People always advise others to chmod +x such files in order to run them, and it's just not at all necessary. "bash filename" will perceive the first line "#!/bin/sh" as a comment and ignore it, assuming of course that your Solaris has the bash shell installed.

oscad seems to have dropped off the face of the earth.

Cheers

ian

Except it is rather expensive unsless you only want to make a small PCB.

Cheers

Ian

On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:36:20 -0500, the infamous Ignoramus25062 scrawled the following:

No? Please tell us about your backup scheme!

-- You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you _can_ do something about its width and depth. -- Evan Esar

On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:10:08 -0600, the infamous Lew Hartswick scrawled the following:

Congrats, Lew and Ig. You're the first among us who has never lost a piece of paper or a bit of data from a computer, respectively.

We salute you. (OK, guys, both middle fingers NOW! ;)

-- You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you _can_ do something about its width and depth. -- Evan Esar