Well, it is an editor or sorts; perhaps Ascii Character Drawing Program
would be a more appropriate name. At any rate, I'm please to announce that PyAscii version 0.6 is available for download at
PyAscii_06_WinXP.zip contains an executable for WinXP. This should be considered beta software since it has not had much testing by anyone other than myself. Download and read the readme.txt file before unzipping.
PyAscii_06_source.zip contains the Python source files. I'm using Python 2.3.
Send your comments and bug reports to: "g a r y r a t f i d a l g o d o t n e t"
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What is PyAscii?
PyAscii is a ASCII character drawing program, presently configured to produce electronics schematics. Salient features:
- Electronic symbols or objects commonly used in drawing electronics schematics may choosen from a list and placed on the screen. They can also be moved, copied or deleted with a few mouse clicks.
- Similarly, groups of object on the screen may be moved, copied or deleted.
- Certain operations such as placing symbols, labels and pin numbershave been automated to some extent.
- Standard resistor and capacitor values in either US or European form may be selected from tables.
- Text may be quickly placed anywhere on the drawing. Just move the cursor to the desired spot and start typing. Entered text may moved, copied or deleted just like any other drawing object. Single lines of text may be oriented vertically.
- Component labels (R1, R2, etc.) may be generated automatically.
- The ASCII drawing may be previewed or copied to the clipboard or to a file at any time.
- A build-in editor allows modification of existing component definitions or the addition of new ones. Component definitions are in a WYSIWYG form. Multiple component definition files may be used.