We have a major CAD program that does Electrical, Electronic, Panels, cabinets, wire bundles, circuit boards and prints..
This program is an in house app and was created in the days of Windows 3.x and has advanced, of course.
Some conversion programs have been written to make the files some what compatible when shipping off circuit boards for fabing...
what is going on now is, every one wants to use tools that the world is using. We are now dealing with a lot of people that are not directly linked with us...
I was the original developer of this tool, I am now the last one and it has been release to me to do as I please with it..
Is there a PDF file or some kind of guide line published out there that can give me the terms used in the editing of items so that I can match these. Also, items like defining line width, scaling, through holes in circuit boards, file formats expected etc....
I have used several programs over the years from various authors and have collected some basic commonality between them...
I guess what I am after is mostly the circuit board lay out file formats, Node routing formats, schematic file formats and routing formats for those also..
I really don't think every one uses AutoCad/AutoDesk with DWG files etc... I do have some gerber translations but those are part of the external converter programs which I plan to integrate into the package.
Any nice listing of what is expected and how to manipulate the tool for circuits and circuit board designing would be nice...
The most tool I have used other than our own for circuits is Eagle how ever, there are things that I kind of curl my eyebrow on there.
I plan in releasing this as a cheap all around CAD tool.
This package was once release to me in the past and when I started to change things around in it, they decided to keep it longer because they liked what I was doing in it. This time, I have it in writing!!!!!!!!!