Looking for electrical schematic software....

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#1

Hello. I’m considering rewiring my house from single family to two separate
meters. I’m looking for software that will build wiring schematics using
standard North American type layouts and symbols. Does anyone know of such
a program? I’d prefer open source, but will look at just about anything
that’s designed for residential use. Commercially available programs are
just far too expensive to even consider at $ hundreds of dollars.

Thanks, Bob

bob@rsmits.ca (Robert Smits, Ladysmith BC)

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#2

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:01:01 GMT
Robert Smits <bob@rsmits.ca> wrote:

> Hello. I’m considering rewiring my house from single family to two
> separate meters. I’m looking for software that will build wiring
> schematics using standard North American type layouts and symbols.
> Does anyone know of such a program? I’d prefer open source, but will
> look at just about anything that’s designed for residential use.
> Commercially available programs are just far too expensive to even
> consider at $ hundreds of dollars.
>
> Thanks, Bob
Hi
I would look at xfig (It’s on the DVD), someone out there has probably
produced some libraries for electrical wiring. There are some
electrical ones with the application.
http://www.xfig.org/

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#3

Good question. There is an application called Electric (although I haven’t tried it myself). Have a look here.

This link too.

#4

Sorry, disregard last post. Didn’t read OP properly. Might be of use to an electronics engineer though.

#5

you have two simple alternatives for linux,or better i found only these windows alternative at the moment:

eagle CadSoft Online: EAGLE Layout Editor

or

there’s an autocad based application with electrical wiring(you have a library with all electrical symbols and new electrical functions),i don’t remember its name now,i saw it during a visit in a ecu software factory.

#6

m1192ds wrote:

>
> you have two simple alternatives for linux,or better i found only these
> windows alternative at the moment:
>
> eagle ‘CadSoft Online: EAGLE Layout Editor’
> (http://www.cadsoft.de)
>
> or
>
> there’s an autocad based application with electrical wiring(you have a
> library with all electrical symbols and new electrical functions),i
> don’t remember its name now,i saw it during a visit in a ecu software
> factory.
>
>
Thanks. I’ve had a look at Cadsoft and it appears well designed but for
electronic circuit boards (and very expensive). I’ll look for the other
application.

bob@rsmits.ca (Robert Smits, Ladysmith BC)

“I’m not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect
that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn’t need an
interpreter.” - Nicholas Petreley

#7

Malcolm wrote:

> Hi
> I would look at xfig (It’s on the DVD), someone out there has probably
> produced some libraries for electrical wiring. There are some
> electrical ones with the application.
> http://www.xfig.org/
>

Thanks, Malcolm. It looks like it may be exactly what I was looking for.
I’ll look for more libraries.

Bob

bob@rsmits.ca (Robert Smits, Ladysmith BC)

“I’m not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect
that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn’t need an
interpreter.” - Nicholas Petreley

#8

deano ferrari wrote:

>
> Good question. There is an application called Electric (although I
> haven’t tried it myself). Have a look ‘here.’
> (http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/513060/electric.html)
>
> This ‘link’ (http://www.staticfreesoft.com/) too.
>
>
Thanks, Deano, but this refers to Electronic Cicuit design, not home
wiring. Thanks for responding, though.

Bob.

bob@rsmits.ca (Robert Smits, Ladysmith BC)

“I’m not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect
that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn’t need an
interpreter.” - Nicholas Petreley