12V / 240V Circuit Schematic Program

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Some people have posted some nice schematics of their 12V & 240V onboard wiring. Also, the Victron website has a number of nice schematics showing how their equpment can be connected together.

I'm going to do a bit of a rewire of my 12V and 240V setup and would like to play around with different configurations of battery/equipment/wiring/busbar/switches etc. I'd like to 'play' with the arrangement using a CAD type of program to visualise various arrangements that I might end up with (electrical and physical layout). I like the Victron schematics as they show both the connectivity with nice wee images of the individual components,

So, question - what programs have those with nice circuit diagrams used to layout and document their system? Ideally, a free package would be good as I'm only going to use it once for this project.
 
Google open source cad software but if you just want line drawings with inserted pics you could use the Draw module in MS Word. I don't know if the open source Word software has a Drawing package. Powerpoint is another option.
 
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No disrespect to post #3, i have the full office suite and none of the other programs come close to Visio for schematics, it's one of its key features.

You build up a library of images or your own drawings, i usually just make basic drawings of the equipment, rather than images, as i use so many different makes/models of equipment. You can attach "connection points" to you drawing/images, so when you want to draw a cable from one device to another. than line attaches itself to the points, if you move an item, the "cable" moves with it, etc.

I think i know of a free download for Visio, i'm just testing it now, it's a slow download, looks like it'll take an hour. Will post back later with a link if it works OK.
 
PaulRainbow said:
No disrespect to post #3, i have the full office suite and none of the other programs come close to Visio for schematics, it's one of its key features.

You build up a library of images or your own drawings, i usually just make basic drawings of the equipment, rather than images, as i use so many different makes/models of equipment. You can attach "connection points" to you drawing/images, so when you want to draw a cable from one device to another. than line attaches itself to the points, if you move an item, the "cable" moves with it, etc.

I think i know of a free download for Visio, i'm just testing it now, it's a slow download, looks like it'll take an hour. Will post back later with a link if it works OK.
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That would be great, Paul. I've got Office 2013 on my PC, which doesn't include Visio. I might have access to it at work, so will check on Monday. It sounds like it is what I want. Something fairly easy to navigate without too much learning!
 
dje67 said:
That would be great, Paul. I've got Office 2013 on my PC, which doesn't include Visio. I might have access to it at work, so will check on Monday. It sounds like it is what I want. Something fairly easy to navigate without too much learning!
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I downloaded Visio, but it then asks for a product code, so not as free as it looked.
 
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