[ubuntu-za] Electrical panel and switchgear design

[Jan Groenewald]

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

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