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Recommend software for drawing wire layouts - itsmylittlebrothersbike - 03-27-2006
I am trying to find software to help me create the structured wiring maps (layout schematics for home wiring) for the Mac. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. They are relatively simple layouts (no 3D) .
Re: Recommend software for drawing wire layouts - mjgkramer - 03-27-2006
I've always liked Canvas for 2-D engineering-type drawings. However it is a bit expensive these days.
Re: Recommend software for drawing wire layouts - TheTominator - 03-27-2006
What is your price range?
What computer configuration would you want to run this on?
Re: Recommend software for drawing wire layouts - Mac-A-Matic - 03-27-2006
How about TurboCAD? It's only $99.
Re: Recommend software for drawing wire layouts - Panopticon - 03-27-2006
DoodleCAD http://www.doodlebytes.com/DoodleCAD.html
QCad 2.0.5 http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/25109
CADintosh - 5.3.2 http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11417
They're all ShareWare, relatively inexpensive.
Bookmark http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/ Use it to find OS X software you never knew you wanted ::o
Re: Recommend software for drawing wire layouts - itsmylittlebrothersbike - 03-27-2006
Work will pay for the software, so I don't want to say price doesn't matter. For the simple task of laying out wiring diagrams, I would prefer to keep the cost under $250.
Re: Recommend software for drawing wire layouts - itsmylittlebrothersbike - 03-27-2006
Thanks for all the hits. Much appreciated.
Re: Recommend software for drawing wire layouts - BigGuynRusty - 03-27-2006
For those folks that don't have a budget, but still want to do electrical drawings, AppleWorks has a fairly well rounded Drawing module and is integrated tightly with the other modules
Word Processing
Spreadsheet
Database
Paint
Does great presentation, and page layouts.
Included free with consumer level Macs.
BGnR
Re: Recommend software for drawing wire layouts - TLB - 03-27-2006
ConceptDraw is a Visio-like program that is available on the Mac. I haven't used it for quite a while, but it used to have a very good building plan module that did a nice job with networking, plumbing, electrical and HVAC. Lot's of other project management tools you probably don't need, but you may want to download the trial version for a test run.