Electrical Schematic Program

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Electrical Schematic Drawing Program?

I need to make some Electrical Schematics up for some older equipment. What programs are available other than AutoCAD? Not wanting to spend the $$$ for AutoCAD at this time and I’d prefer not to use paper and pencil.

Thanks.

I use Autocad because it’s all I have (licenced).

It really sux at creating electrical schematics.

Better is Orcad. Also, check out Electronics Work Bench… they have a great Schematics Capture program. Yes, look for schematic capture programs… I don’t know why they call them capture programs.
Visio has some cool libraries!
As someone mentioned, Spice!

Next question, where are you going to show or use these schematics? Are you going to send them to anyone? if so, you might want to go for a common drawing program.

GL.

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