Hi Les,
               thanks for the good words :) always appreciated.
    Unfortunately I can't afford Autocad   bit out of my price range.    I 
couldn't
really justify it anyway   its pretty rare for me to do PCB layouts
As a result MS Paint fills the bill nicely as a pure drawing prog.   It 
does NOT
have any kind of grid/snap settings.
    I make lots of use of the magnify mode to do the close in work. Where you
are able to draw pixel by pixel if need be.   Having used this prog for 
many yrs
now I can do diag's reasonably quickly.
Often / usually I will load into screen a previously drawn cct and then 
just start
copying and pasting lines text and other cct symbols as needed to create a 
new drawing.
   I dont know if you saw the 23GHz TX drawing for the board at the top of this
page  http://www.sydneystormcity.com/24GHz.htm     click on the circuit diag
link in the text a few lines down from the top of the page.  One of my 
Favourites
with multi layering of the board, it made track tracing a real 
challenge.   Pretty
sure I got it close to correct .... enuf to get a detailed idea of the cct 
operation
anyway ... for Ham use   ;)

thanks again
cheers
Dave Nelson
VK2TDN

At 12:12 PM 13/08/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>Dave,
>Your MS Paint-based diagrams are very impressive.  I use AutoCAD for this 
>purpose myself.
>I would be interested in seeing your symbol library as well as knowing of 
>any grid or snap settings in Paint that you use to get line endpoints to 
>match up and place symbols evenly.
>Good work.
>Les
>RLL Instruments


Hi Les,

             
thanks for the good words :) always appreciated.

   Unfortunately I can't afford Autocad   bit out of
my price range.    I couldn't 

really justify it anyway   its pretty rare for me to do PCB
layouts

As a result MS Paint fills the bill nicely as a pure drawing
prog.   It does NOT 

have any kind of grid/snap settings.

   I make lots of use of the magnify mode to do the close in
work. Where you

are able to draw pixel by pixel if need be.   Having used this
prog for many yrs 

now I can do diag's reasonably quickly.   

Often / usually I will load into screen a previously drawn cct and then
just start

copying and pasting lines text and other cct symbols as needed to create
a new drawing.

  I dont know if you saw the 23GHz TX drawing for the board at the
top of this

page 
http://www.sydneystormcity.com/24GHz.htm    
click on the circuit diag

link in the text a few lines down from the top of the page.  One
of my Favourites

with multi layering of the board, it made track tracing a real
challenge.   Pretty 

sure I got it close to correct .... enuf to get a detailed idea of the
cct operation

anyway ... for Ham use   ;)


thanks again

cheers

Dave Nelson

VK2TDN


At 12:12 PM 13/08/2007 -0700, you wrote:

Dave,

Your MS Paint-based diagrams are very impressive.  I use AutoCAD for
this purpose myself.

I would be interested in seeing your symbol library as well as knowing of
any grid or snap settings in Paint that you use to get line endpoints to
match up and place symbols evenly.

Good work.

Les

RLL Instruments