J
John
- Jan 1, 1970
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I am getting ready to write a book that will include material on
analog electronics, and I'm also working on a manual for a piece of
analog test equipment. For both of these projects I need to generate
many publication-quality schematics, mostly of small analog circuits.
I am trying to figure out what software to use to make these drawings.
I think it will have to be something with most of the flexibility of
a 2-d vector drawing program like Illustrator or Freehand. The
figures will be something like those in Horowitz and Hill, with lots
of annotations and the occasional Transistor Man or the like. As far
as I know none of the dedicated schematic capture programs would be
suitable, and anyway I already have tools for schematic capture,
SPICE, PCB layout, and so forth that work for me. In the past I have
used programs like Illustrator and made my own symbols, but its pretty
slow going and I have never been able to get the defined groups to
work properly on a grid, since I have not been able to control the
origin of grouped elements relative the grid. This makes things
pretty tedious. Right now I am playing with a demo of SmartDraw, but
the graphic quality of the symbols looks to be too crude for use in a
book. So is there anyone out there who has written an electronics book
with advice on how to make all the drawings?
Thanks,
John
analog electronics, and I'm also working on a manual for a piece of
analog test equipment. For both of these projects I need to generate
many publication-quality schematics, mostly of small analog circuits.
I am trying to figure out what software to use to make these drawings.
I think it will have to be something with most of the flexibility of
a 2-d vector drawing program like Illustrator or Freehand. The
figures will be something like those in Horowitz and Hill, with lots
of annotations and the occasional Transistor Man or the like. As far
as I know none of the dedicated schematic capture programs would be
suitable, and anyway I already have tools for schematic capture,
SPICE, PCB layout, and so forth that work for me. In the past I have
used programs like Illustrator and made my own symbols, but its pretty
slow going and I have never been able to get the defined groups to
work properly on a grid, since I have not been able to control the
origin of grouped elements relative the grid. This makes things
pretty tedious. Right now I am playing with a demo of SmartDraw, but
the graphic quality of the symbols looks to be too crude for use in a
book. So is there anyone out there who has written an electronics book
with advice on how to make all the drawings?
Thanks,
John