I thought the same thing. I use KiCAD for schematic capture and PCB design. I do as you do and make symbols for devices like Stepper drivers I can just draw a schematic and capture the wiring. So I figured I have no use for this. But,...
I looked at WireViz more and now I see that it captures the physical design of a cable with wire diameters and colors and makes it easy for a technician to make the cable. A schematic does not capture this and certainly is not friendly to the tech who has to make a cable (even if that tech is me) WireViz also seems to be very actively developed and the author is accepting pull requests. I think it needs a feature for recording cable length It seems that its best use is for recording the physical details of cables with terminators. On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:36 AM N <[email protected]> wrote: > > Found via a Hackaday article. > > I have been using Excel, but this might be neater: > > > > https://github.com/formatc1702/WireViz > > To draw schematics for machine is a common task, mabye you got one with > your machine if you bought an old one. > > I use gschem or lepton and think it works great but have to add the > symbols myself as it only have for circuit boards and integrated circuits. > Added symbol for a 3-phase relay and an ordinary asynchronous motor last > week. Nets in machine where numbered then I got it and I also add the > numbers in the schematics. Hierarchical symbols and buses for cables are > also possible. Have also looked a little bit on using it for the .hal file > and think I got to more less work, it is possible to add extra backends to > gnetlist. > > Will most probably print a copy and put in the cabinet then done. > > > Regards Nicklas Karlsson > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
