What CAD program for wiring are you using?

[martyscncgarage]

It might be better to import the .jpg image of Acorn and start from scratch. Let us know how you make out. You might kick me behind into relearning Visio.

Marty

[francoCNC]

What do you think about SchemeIt from DigiKey?

https://www.digikey.com/schemeit/project/

It's free and it seems to work pretty good.

[Black Forest]

I use Festo Diadectic(sp ?) I can do all my hydraulic circuit drawing and simulations plus all the wiring diagrams for all the control circuits and control cabinets. I can import .jpegs of actual control modules, etc. It has many photos included plus the symbols of course.

But it isn't cheap!

[Petel]

I have been using Proficad recently - seems pretty easy to use and produces clear schematics.

You can easily build up a selection of your own custom symbols. Just drag and drop connections between the symbols to make your circuits.

Free to home users - even better! www.proficad.com

I tried to attach my acorn symbol but the forum does not like the file extension. PM me if you want a copy and I can mail it to you.

No connection with the company at all - just stumbled across it when I was looking for an easy way to draw schematics!

Pete

[Krenovian]

I’ve used a free program called TinyCAD to draw electrical schematics. It is straight forward and easy to use with a number symbol libraries which can be down loaded. I felt the learning curve wasn’t very steep. It was pretty easy to produce drawings quickly.

CJ

[tblough]

I haven't used it yet, but this just came to my attention:

https://qelectrotech.org/index.html

From the photos on the gallery page of their website, it looks like it does a pretty good job. It's open source and free, so the price is right and it runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac.

[slodat]

I'll have some drawing I need to do during my current servo upgrade. What's everyone using?

[Ken Rychlik]

Give this a try. It's a circuit designer and simulator. You can apply voltage and signals and watch what it does. https://www.circuitlab.com/ I used a version of it back when it was published on floppy disc.