Timeline for Good tools for drawing schematics
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| Jun 3, 2017 at 15:32 | comment | added | Joren Vaes | I use inkscape a lot for makeing neat schematics to go into reports, documentation, study material. It's not a tool to make schematics during production, but it's for making them afterwards for documentation purposes. It's sure beats the TeX options for making very neat schematics in books or texts. The best part is that if there is a symbol not in your library, you just draw it and add it! Every single other option I've used, eventually there is some library symbol that either looks off or is just not there. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 18:02 | comment | added | chicks | I think inkscape is easy to use and powerful. I wish it supported multi-page so I didn't have to edit PDFs page by page, but otherwise it rocks. It seems like a natural solution for this problem to me. | |
| Dec 25, 2013 at 0:53 | comment | added | user16222 | +1 I use this all the time. I have that svg stored on my desktop for easy opening to capture cct that represent reasonably well a concept while not being 100% accurate (ie ideal for presentations/reports) | |
| Nov 28, 2013 at 5:31 | comment | added | Kaz | I use Inkscape from time to time. It's like pulling teeth, even for simple graphics. For schematics? Yagoddabekidding. All that work, and no netlist, no design checks, ... | |
| Aug 24, 2011 at 15:52 | comment | added | endolith | Here is another group of symbols meant to be used this way luciani.org/not-quite-ready/not-quite-ready-index.html#symbols | |
| Aug 24, 2011 at 15:34 | comment | added | endolith | Examples of schematics made using this collection: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/… | |
| Jun 15, 2011 at 4:45 | comment | added | nibot | I came here looking for exactly this: a symbol library in SVG for use with Inkscape. Thanks! | |
| Oct 1, 2010 at 18:11 | comment | added | Yann Vernier | ktechlab does have (experimental) svg export. | |
| Jun 16, 2010 at 15:16 | comment | added | Kortuk | Still an interesting solution | |
| Jun 16, 2010 at 2:14 | comment | added | Kevin Vermeer | Inkscape outputs SVG images, which is a requirement: 3. It has to be able to export in SVG: the SVG is the format that was proposed by wikipedia for diagrams. It provides the best quality at the minimum space. Most schematic capture programs have the same view you took - Graphics as such (other than PDF export) are useless. Wikipedia wants the prettiest, smallest graphics. What we want is different: The fastest, easiest way to create a schematic and its simulation. | |
| Jun 16, 2010 at 0:09 | history | answered | davidcary | CC BY-SA 2.5 |