{"id":4194,"date":"2008-05-12T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/05\/12\/farhan-on-schematic-drawing-software\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T04:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T18:39:00","slug":"farhan-on-schematic-drawing-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/05\/12\/farhan-on-schematic-drawing-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Farhan on Schematic Drawing Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really in the dark ages on this subject &#8212; I usually just draw something by hand and then scan it. Others (like JF1OZL) have good results with this technique. I don&#8217;t. So I was glad to see this suggestion from Farhan on software that can be used to draw professional-looking schematics:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;i have used something called schemat.zip available freely on the<br \/>internet. it consists of a bitmap file with all the symbols that we<br \/>use in ham radio. i open it in ms paint, start a new copy of ms paint<br \/>and start selecting the symbols from the first ms paint window and<br \/>pasting it into the fresh ms paint window. Remember to UNSELECT<br \/>OPTIONS->DRAW OPAQUE. Sorry for the caps, but it is important. You can<br \/>use the line tool to draw the &#8216;wires&#8217; connecting individual<br \/>components. holding the shift key down while drawing lines forces the<br \/>lines to come out perfectly horizontal or vertical.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Farhan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really in the dark ages on this subject &#8212; I usually just draw something by hand and then scan it. Others (like JF1OZL) have good results with this technique. I don&#8217;t. So I was glad to see this suggestion from Farhan on software that can be used to draw professional-looking schematics: &#8220;i have used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/05\/12\/farhan-on-schematic-drawing-software\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Farhan on Schematic Drawing Software&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farhan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}