Electrical wiring diagram software for iPad/iOS/Mac?

[fergycool]

Hi all,

I'm currently trying to track down and label every wire on my boat with the eventual aim of a partial rewire. The wiring is currently spaghetti and adding a wire to the distribution board (that is a grand term for a not so grand mess) is like reverse Kerplunk.

Is anybody aware of any software for making electrical diagrams? Preferably iOS and ideally one that syncs with Evernote (a fantastic cloud based note synching service with local storage too!).

Currently I've been taking sketches on an iPad. But having access to real symbols would be a boon.

The eventual aim is to also have a printed folder of the boat as well as electronic.

Thanks
Ferg

 

[JohnGC]

A reduced or free version of a PCB (you would only need the schematic capture part) or electrical CAD package would be ideal but they are almost non-existent for anything other than Windows.

An alternative would be a drawing application that has an electrical symbol library. You really need one that understands the concept of connections, so that when you move a symbol that you have already connected, the connection line moves with it in a sensible way.

OpenOffice is free and available for the MAC. It's drawing application understands connections and there is an extension for it that has electronic and electrical symbols.
http://www.openoffice.org/
http://www.openoffice.org/porting/mac/
https://code.google.com/p/freie-schaltzeichen/wiki/Kurzanleitung

To view your drawings, you can create PDFs.

I've only used OpenOffice with Windows but I would expect it to work in the same way with a MAC. There is also a LibreOffice which I belive is a "fork" from OpenOffice.

If OpenOffice isn't available for iOS try looking at drawing and flow diagram applications.

 

[prv]

Omnigraffle is not specifically for electrics, but it's a well-respected diagramming tool on OSX. I see there is now an iPad version, though I've never tried it.

Pete

 

[fergycool]

Thanks for both of your suggestions. I was being fairly limited in my thinking as I was only thinking about a specific app for wiring diagrams. I'm fairly familiar with OpenOffice (and StarOffice before that!). I've never used OmmniGrafle though. I'll try out both. Thanks!

 

[aslabend]

I used Inkscape (because it was free) and versatile.
you can do wiring diagrams -

or more diagrammatic -