Hi all,

In the midst of wiring my car and was thinking i need to actually document what i have done for future reference etc. Does anybody know of any free software you can download for drawing up wiring diagrams?

Cheers

Open Office Draw package can be used to draw boxes and has a selection of connectors that can be used for the wiring lines. May do the job and is Free

I looked for ages for something that would do the job, getting coloured lines with stripes/tracers seemed to be almost impossible
Let us know if you find anything!

You can fudge tracers in lines in Visio using the line styles, but it's far from perfect.

I've been using yEd to knock up network/system diagrams recently, once you've spent half an hour getting familiar with it it's remarkably easy to use, I've been churning out diagrams in half the time it takes me to do anything in Visio. The downside to Yed is that for car wiring diagrams you will have to find SVG diagrams for switches/lamps/components etc yourself, it doesn't come with much out of the box.

[Edited on 18/7/11 by martyn_16v]

you could try to break down the individual circuits and sketch them by hand something along the lines of what i wrote here in an article for another club....

http://www.andersensmith.freeserve.co.uk/wiringloom6.pdf

dont make them too complicated, the wire goes from a power source through a switch of some sorts to the consumer, make it simple!!!

How about a free CAD program? Try draftsight, free download from dassault systemes (same people who do solidworks) we use it at work and you can do plenty of lines in differen colours and draw whatever blocks you want. You can alos layer the drawings so you have different layers for say your lighting loom, your engine loom etc.

Thanks guys. Some useful links there. Much appreciated.

Daft as it may sound

I have done some great drawings in Excel

Draw lines in any colour add text and you can also inport bitmaps and photos.

I've used this in the past...and they can make up a PCB from your design if required.


http://www.sunstone.com/PCB123.aspx