Hi Bob,

> What do you think of the Dia drawing application on Fedora Core 2 Best
> (Test 2)? It seems to have some circuit diagramming capability.

I haven't really played with "Dia" much. I've just had a look
at their website ( http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/ ) and
as I understand it, Dia is a diagramming tool which happens to
have some libraries with electronic components etc.

I'm sure that you could create some ok diagrams with it, but
I suspect that it will be far inferior compared to Eagle which
is a dedicated electronics schematic and pcb layout tool. For
example, I'm presuming that Dia will just have a fairly limited
number of electronic components eg. diode, transister, resistor,
ic, capacitor, etc. where as Eagle has a vast library of
components that you can choose from where you can pick an
individual ic, eg. pic16f84a or whatever, and there will be a
diagram of it with labeled pins etc for you to connect nets to
and has all manner of labeling options for naming components,
giving them values and having it all be displayed correctly etc.
Naturally Eagle will also then let you take your schematic and
use that as a basis for a pcb layout though that's not something
I've used it for.

I'm sure that you could use Dia for creating some nice enough
diagrams of basic circuits, but I'm sure you'd find Eagle to
be far superior. Is there any particular reason you'd rather
use Dia than Eagle?

If you do create some circuit diagrams in Dia, post them up,
I'd be interested to see what results are achievable.

Matt


>>>>Hi, what software did you draw the diagram with? I'd like to try the
>>>>same software myself. You did a nice job of drawing the
>>>>actual diagram and I'd like to try doing circuit diagrams myself.
>>>
>>>I used "Eagle", which I believe is fairly well used by people on here.
>>>It's free for hobby use (with some limitations on the
>>>circuit, number of layers etc) and seems rather nice for my
>>>purposes at least. It runs on Linux too which is great for me. You
>>>can download it at: http://www.cadsoft.de/
>>
>>
>> One thing I forgot to mention - if you do decide to give
>> Eagle a try, I'd recommend downloading the tutorial
>> document and working through it. It wont take long and
>> it really got me up to speed on drawing the schematic very
>> quickly. Now I need to go on to do the pcb design part!

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