Which Electrical CAD program do you use?

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• Mar 24, 2007

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Just curious to see which program you guys prefer. I had only used AutoCad Elec.

 

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acade

 

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ePLAN

 

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I use Visio for my electrical, Autocad for mechanical

I want eplan...

 

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Acad 2007 plus Electrical

Also have WSCad

 

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are there any free or shareware elec. cad prgs?

 

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Caddsman.

 

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astronutt said:

are there any free or shareware elec. cad prgs?

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Yep....

Sorry could not pass it up

 

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geniusintraining said:

Yep....

Sorry could not pass it up

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I wouldnt call Microsofyt Word free.

 

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"are there any free or shareware elec. cad prgs?"
Darn kids always want it for free....

Just another old ****

 

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mostly still use acad light 2002 and when i want to beat my head against the wall acad 2006 electrical...

Not that there is anything wrong with the electrical i guess i am just used to acad light..and have some"issues" when i try electrical..tho it does have some neat features..

 

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astronutt said:

are there any free or shareware elec. cad prgs?

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There's always the ePlan look-alike 'Elwin'

http://www.3xm.se/index_eng.html


(originally posted by 'ason' last year)

 

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orcad

hi,

a software, known as orcad have used just few days when a guy was learning, in which we can place the components as well it takes the values of the components example like resistor, capacitor, inductor, transformer ,Mosfet so on, we can calculate current or voltage in the circuit across each component. It also as an option for pcb designing,

but now i want to know whether if i am correct whether the software is orcad


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• Mar 25, 2007

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Eplan

 

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Hello Anusri;

We used Orcad to train our electronics students the "art" of PCB design, about ten years ago. At the time it was quite a good package. Haven't seen the recent developments, though.

Have a look at their website:




http://www.cadence.com/products/orcad/index.aspx

Hope this helps,
Daniel Chartier