On 02/18/2010 11:54 AM, Mark Goldstein wrote:
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Douglas McGarrett
wrote: I am a retired engineer, and an Amateur Radio Operator, and there are times when I would like to draw a schematic or a block diagram for various purposes. including publication .Perhaps I will be better off in Windows--there seem to be a lot more choices there. ProgeCAD seems to be a good ACLt clone.
I'm not experienced in that, but I tried once gEDA system to draw schematics and more. Worked OK on OpenSUSE. I think it is in "science" repository.
gEDA is a bit hard to get into; I recently switched to kicad, which is working more smoothly for me. Why on earth would anyone want to use a general-purpose drawing program like dia, or a mechanical drawing program like Autocad or Qcad, for electronics? At home and for consulting I use kicad for electronics and Qcad for mechanical drawing, and oodraw or dia for things like block diagrams or flowcharts. The times are gone when you're forced to go to the Evil Empire for any but the most advanced or specialized cad, or (as I am forced to) when your employer or client requires one of the Windows systems. John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org