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General Mach Discussion / Re: Needed, Good wireing diagram program
« on: April 01, 2008, 10:21:35 PM »
Hey Rich, I use Autosketch a lot(I love this little cheap program for a lot of the simple stuff). It is made by Autodesk. A really watered down version but its super simple. It can be done in that, they have a pretty large library and it isn't too bad. The thing is, its not really geared for this type work. I downloaded a trial of Diptrace which I like. When routing wires you just connect the pins and it runs them in a legible manner. That can spoil a fellow in a hurry. 
The full blown version is about $700 which is way more than I care to spend on this. You can get a non-profit licenses for a 1000 pin 4 layer version for about $125. This may work, but it sure will be a bite in the a** if I put a load of time in it to find out I have 1002 pins. I won't actually land wires on that many pins I know, but I would like to give a true rep. of the connectors. Each drive has 77 pins and there will be 5 of these and one with far less. But, that is almost half capacity of the 125 version already. I'm not really interested in the PCB side of it although might be nice to have. I just need a pretty good one for wiring diagrams.
Thanks for helping,
Brett
The full blown version is about $700 which is way more than I care to spend on this. You can get a non-profit licenses for a 1000 pin 4 layer version for about $125. This may work, but it sure will be a bite in the a** if I put a load of time in it to find out I have 1002 pins. I won't actually land wires on that many pins I know, but I would like to give a true rep. of the connectors. Each drive has 77 pins and there will be 5 of these and one with far less. But, that is almost half capacity of the 125 version already. I'm not really interested in the PCB side of it although might be nice to have. I just need a pretty good one for wiring diagrams. Thanks for helping,
Brett