Any Electrical System Schematic Drawing Tools?

[rvmills]

Have any of you used, or anyone know of any programs (other than CAD programs) that can be used to generate electrical system schematics. As I work a panel upgrade, I'd like to put a professional looking one together for posterity (and future troubleshooting ).

After spending some time last night hand drawing a basic one, I thought perhaps there is a program out there that a non-CAD smart, and non-EE knucklehead might be able use to make a nice schematic with (MS Schemata-draw?)

Any tips, leads or experience with this is very much appreciated!

Thanks!

Bob Mills
"Rocket" RV-6
N600SS
4SD

[Ted Johns]

MS Visio has been used to make pretty drawings. There are other sketch programs as well, some freeware too.

There is a fair bit of investment in making symbols if you want the schematic to have a "standard" look to it. Perhaps someone has canned symbols available for Visio, I wouldn't know.

The symbol issue is one reason to use a real schematic capture application, although they are a bit of a pain to learn. There are a few freeware / shareware apps. out there. And of course, they don't come with every symbol you need, so there's still investment in library symbols to be made.

[java]

http://www.vansairforce.com/communit...ght=electrical

[rvmills]

Great stuff guys! Didn't find this on my search, but it sure hits the nail on the head. Now to get busy!!

Thanks again!
Bob