[ubuntu-za] Electrical panel and switchgear design

[Ivan]

On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 13:36 +0200, Jan Groenewald wrote:

> Hi
> 
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 11:59:33AM +0200, Paul Young wrote:
> >    Does anyone know anything about software to design electrical panels with
> >    switchgear and wiring and to produce the required electrical symbols -
> >    like contactors/relays/motors etc.....
> 
> Perhaps the first one here?
> 
> 0 jan at muizenberg:/var/autofs/misc/home/jan$aptitude search electric
> i   electric                        - electrical CAD system                     
> p   electric-fence                  - A malloc(3) debugger                      
> p   electricsheep                   - screensaver showing collective dream of sl
> 
> There are many circuit board programs, 
> 
> 0 jan at muizenberg:/var/autofs/misc/home/jan$aptitude search circuit
> p   python-circuits                 - event-driven framework with a component ar
> p   xcircuit                        - Draw circuit schematics or almost anything
> 0 jan at muizenberg:/var/autofs/misc/home/jan$aptitude search pcb
> p   geda-xgsch2pcb                  - GPL EDA -- Electronics design software -- 
> i   pcb                             - printed circuit board (pcb) design program
> i A pcb-common                      - printed circuit board (pcb) design program
> i A pcb-gtk                         - printed circuit board (pcb) design program
> p   pcb-lesstif                     - printed circuit board (pcb) design program
> p   rpcbind                         - converts RPC program numbers into universa
> 0 jan at muizenberg:/var/autofs/misc/home/jan$aptitude search electronic
> p   science-electronics             - Debian Science Electronics packages       
> 0 jan at muizenberg:/var/autofs/misc/home/jan$
> 
> Also
> http://www.freebyte.com/cad/cad.htm#electricalsystems
> http://www.junauza.com/2009/12/free-and-open-source-cad-software-for.html
> 
> regards,
> Jan
> 
> -- 
>    .~. 
>    /V\     Jan Groenewald
>   /( )\    www.aims.ac.za
>   ^^-^^ 
> 

I have done a lot of design work for panels using Corel Draw and a laser
engraver (see www.engravatech.co.za), but Inkscape works very well.
AutoCAD 14 runs beautifully with wine ......


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Ivan Haefele
RAIM Computer Services
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Fax:  086 660 8795
ivanh at raim.co.za
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