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Chris Carlen

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Dec 12, 2005, 5:30:11 PM12/12/05
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Hi:


Got any favorites? Capable of flowcharting too?


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Dan Hollands

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Dec 12, 2005, 7:10:26 PM12/12/05
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Visio

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cbm5

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Dec 12, 2005, 10:38:06 PM12/12/05
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Chris Carlen wrote:
> Hi:
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> Got any favorites? Capable of flowcharting too?
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Xfig.

http://www.xfig.org/

JeffM

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Dec 13, 2005, 4:59:55 AM12/13/05
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>Visio
> Dan Hollands

NO.
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.design/browse_frm/thread/7b9faecdf6591892/b21ea0ffb71e90ee?q=Visio-*-totally-unsuitable-for-wiring-diagrams+connections+no-concept-of-wires+zzz+for-this-very-reason

Ken Smith

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Dec 13, 2005, 10:33:37 AM12/13/05
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In article <dnktl...@news3.newsguy.com>,

Chris Carlen <crcarleR...@BOGUSsandia.gov> wrote:
>Hi:
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>Got any favorites? Capable of flowcharting too?

For a lot of stuff Open Office's Draw is the easiest way to go because it
mixes with text in their Write program easily.

I sometimes also use the schematic program. The blocks in the block
diagrams are sheets.


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Mike

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Dec 13, 2005, 11:19:44 AM12/13/05
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"JeffM" <jef...@email.com> wrote in message
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What's your alternative, Jeff? I wrote the message you were responding to in
the link you provide; my alternative for schematics is Mentor Graphics,
which is far less useful than Visio for presentation schematics, despite the
problems with Visio.

But the OP wasn't asking about schematics, he was asking about block
diagrams. For those, I find that Visio is generally a fine tool.

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Tim Wescott

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Dec 13, 2005, 12:12:42 PM12/13/05
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Chris Carlen wrote:
> Hi:
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> Got any favorites? Capable of flowcharting too?
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I use the drawing tool that comes with OpenOffice.org
(http://www.openoffice.org). It took some getting used to, and it'll
never be quite as good as Visio but it's fine for doing block diagrams
and its free.

Nearly all the block diagrams in my various papers on my website used
OOo tools -- including Draw to generate the block diagrams. Graphs were
either done with MathCad or SciLab (another good free tool --
http://www.scilab.org).

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JeffM

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Dec 13, 2005, 12:50:32 PM12/13/05
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>>>Visio
>>> Dan Hollands
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>> NO.
>>http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.design/browse_frm/thread/7b9faecdf6591892/b21ea0ffb71e90ee?q=Visio-*-totally-unsuitable-for-wiring-diagrams+connections+no-concept-of-wires+zzz+for-this-very-reason
>> "JeffM

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> What's your alternative, Jeff?
> -- Mike --
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I made an EAGLE library called BLOCK.LBR.
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>my alternative for schematics is Mentor Graphics,
>which is far less useful than Visio for presentation schematics,
>despite the problems with Visio.
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My schematic capture app
has done what little block diagram work I needed.
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>But the OP...was asking about block diagrams.

>For those, I find that Visio is generally a fine tool.
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As you noted in the old post,
perhaps if you get everything positioned right the first time.
With Cisio having no real understanding of *connections*
in the electrical sense (everything is just a *line* to Visio),
there is a lot of rework to do every time you move something
(no rubberbanding; it snaps where it wants--and it is clueless).

Adrian Jansen

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Dec 13, 2005, 4:06:56 PM12/13/05
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Chris Carlen wrote:
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> Got any favorites? Capable of flowcharting too?
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Edge Diagrammer from www.pacestar.com

Does lots of nice stuff - rubber banding of connected blocks, free mix
of text and graphics, hyperlinks to other diagrams, etc.

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Chris Jones

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Dec 13, 2005, 6:12:24 PM12/13/05
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Chris Carlen wrote:

> Hi:
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> Got any favorites? Capable of flowcharting too?
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A very old version of Protel for Windows used to be quite good, running on
Win95 back then. If I needed to paste readable schematics into a word
document and if I wanted it to be quicker than drawing it with a stencil
and ink pen, then this is the only program I have found so far that I would
recommend. It is also much better than any microsoft program for doing
flowcharts, powerpoint diagrams or stuff like that.

Chris

JohnS

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Dec 14, 2005, 3:48:27 PM12/14/05
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Also have a look at http://www.c-point.com/index.html

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Kadir Solid Gold Suleyman

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Dec 14, 2005, 7:46:47 PM12/14/05
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Yes please,

I think visio suckis. I use Micrografx Designer for block diagrams and
Micrografx Flowcharter 7, which have not been released in a while but
are quite good. I evalutated the Corel tool that follows this (Corel
bought Micrografx) but is not as good. I have to find new tool as well
and am looking at Draw program in Open Office, I did some FSM diagrams
in OO Draw and in my opinion it is worth checking out.

-SGS

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