Hi Martin, Those do look interesting. You are right that it is a captive program to a commercial entity. It is very easy and that impressed me.
Being that I am not a professional in electronics, a duffer you could say, but also a happy customer of Digikey, I like the close connection to Digikey's catalog. I probably buy 95% of my electronic components from them, SchemeIt will let me make nice schematic and a screen dump for documentation, a bonus is the addition of PN right from their catalog and an easy BOM for reference. I will be checking out KiCad and gEDA though - thanks for the lead, Mike On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:41 AM, W. Martin Borgert <deba...@debian.org> wrote: > On 2014-10-02 17:32, Michael Ross wrote: > > > http://www.digikey.com/en/resources/scheme-it?wt.medium=email&wt.mc_id=em_Scheme_IT_Sept14&wt.z_email=18101_SchemeITBodyLink_EVN142B0US&wt.v_sub=3860157 > > > > I haven't used it much at all, but it is very easy, what I have done. > > I would not use it, but suggest KiCAD or gEDA instead: > > http://www.kicad-pcb.org/ > http://www.geda-project.org/ > > Scheme-it is non-free software or a non-free service. They can > always switch it off or change in some way you don't like. You > don't have any control over the software or your schematics. > > KiCAD is used in my company and I can recommend it. It has some > advantages over e.g. Eagle, but is probably not as professional > as e.g. Altium. > > gEDA is used by many people, too, but I can't say how it > compares to KiCAD. > _______________________________________________ > dia-list mailing list > dia-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk michael.e.r...@gmail.com <michael.e.r...@gmail.com>
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