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Schematic drawing program

I'm a little confused with the results I'm getting when I do a search on Google for this. Perhaps someone here can help.

I want a program that will allow me to draw solid state or mechanical relays, diodes, 555 chips, 7404 chips, light bulbs, etc. I'd like the program to have a library of the common symbols. I'd like the symbols for a

555 or 7404 to look like those on the back of a Radio Shack package. In other words -- little rectangle showing the pinouts with the schematic structure showing within the rectangle that is appropriate for that device. I'd like also simple devices available in the "library" such as mechanical relays with a simple schematic showing the switch and magnetic coil and voltage inputs.

I downloaded Eagle Layout Editor and can't seem to make a simple magnetic relay.

Any suggestions for some programs to draw circuits?

Terry tvacha*remove*@yahoo.com

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Terry Vacha
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I happen to like an old shareware program called DraftChoice for Windows. It is a general purpose drawing program that allows you to build any sort of symbol library you like and then make drawings with it. I'll post a clip of one symbol set I have made to alt.binaries.schematics.electronic.

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John Popelish
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John Popelish

If you only want to draw, and nothing else, use MS Paint. You can make up a library of shapes then copy and paste them to another instance of Paint opened at the same time.

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dB

See my notes and links to some 60 ECAD programs at

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Terry Pinnell Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

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Terry Pinnell

I've been most recently using the free software from expresspcb.com, before that I was using the xcircuit program on linux.

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Thomas A. Horsley

Thanks all for the quick and complete response - - I'll play around with each of the packages mentioned and see what fits my application.

Terry

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Terry Vacha

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