First off if you prefer the American style zig-zag resistors or maybe circles around your transistors, all of them allow you to edit symbols and most have alternate symbol libraries.
I think xciruit wil make the best looking schematics and it can be used along side other software http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/index.html One feature to look for is BOM management. You should be able to not only label a cap as "C24" but say it's value, who makes it, manufacture part number the maybe even the distributer's part number The other thing is backwards references. So you can change a part int e PCB layout and have the schematic change On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:56 PM, <shali...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rick, > > Thanks for the comments on Eagle. > > I have been frustrated trying to learn Eagle for a small urgent project > recently. I ended up using ExpressPCB and the attendant schematic capture. > While it uses proprietary file format and is therefore locked to one vendor, > it was surprisingly easy to use. > I created a schematic and a double sided RF PWB in a couple of weeks with > minimum reference to the documentation. That was my first PWB design. > > I intend to learn Eagle for future projects though, as I need the capability > to generate Gerbers at least. > > I tried KiCAD but I found it unfriendly and I do not like the way the > schematic symbols look (I like my resistors wiggly, not rectangular, call me > old fashioned...) > > If someone only needs a simple schematic capture tool, ExpressSCH from > ExpressPCB is hard to beat. You can easily edit or create new symbols and the > printouts look good and professional. > > Didier KO4BB > > Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless thingy while I do other things... > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Rick Karlquist" <rich...@karlquist.com> > Sender: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com > Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:21:39 > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement<time-nuts@febo.com> > Reply-To: rich...@karlquist.com, > Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > <time-nuts@febo.com> > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Schematic capture, anyone? > > Jim Hickstein wrote: >> What do people use these days for schematic capture (and just possibly PCB >> >> worse, I prefer ANSI logic symbology over shovels-and-spades (or, really, >> over >> plain rectangles where you're expected to know what the part number >> means). >> > > I'll add another vote for Eagle. It is a German program written in > Unix, and ported to Windows. Therefore, you select the action > first then click on the object of the action. It takes some getting > used to. There has been a pattern of PC layout companies getting > cobbled up leaving you with an orphan program, or an upgrade > to some very expensive program. Orcad and Protel go gobbled up. > Eagle did too, but by a distributor, Newark. They just came out > with a new improved version. You can finally draw arbitrary SMT > footprints. I think that was the major limitation of the old > version. You can of course draw your own symbols any way you like. > I have been using Eagle for 5 years now and never looked back. > One other drawback of Eagle is that it is difficult to move a design > between computers, and there are issues with the way preferences > are stored. If you use a part from a library in a design, you are > forever locked into that library. Many other CAD systems have these > issues. Mentor used to be terrible about having absolute path names, etc. > > Rick N6RK > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.