schematic program

[beyondhairy]

hey, does anybody know of any free schematic drawing programs?

im searching all over and everything i download refuses to boot up after i install it.... ::sigh:

[excane]

schematics for what? electrical, engineering drawings, etc?

[katri]

Eagle for mac is ok. I have access to better/easier to use stuff through school though

[beyondhairy]

electric engineering, sorry

and at school i use multisim, and its great, but i cant get the darned thing to work on my home comp... teh student evaluation copy i mean...

and im on a pc

[Sandvich Hero]

I learned to use the OrCAD suite back at school.

www.orcad.com

I think they have an eval copy in which you will be limtied in number of components per plans. I used to run it without problem on a cheap PC.

[Rune Bivrin]

LTSpice:
http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/#Spice

If you can't get that working, you probably need a fresh install of Windows...

[wabbit]

Not that I'm suggesting you do this or condone using pirated software but you could always download ORCAD or PROTEL or any number of super fantastic schematic/layout products.

I downloaded ORCAD 16.0 but it was for a friend. Yeah, that's the ticket.

[fdeck]

My fave for quick 'n' dirty is LTSpice, especially since I end up wanting to simulate the circuits that I design. If you are into tubes, there are tube models available online.

ExpressPCB comes with a decent schematic entry program.

KiCad is free and multiplatform, but I have never tried it.