ElectricDesignPro for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By 6ixgun

  Terrible interface

  I feel like I stepped back 20 years and am working on a 1990s Autocad interface. Wonky interface, difficult controls and nothing intuitive. Even placing lines was a hassle as they continued to default to one size and I had to keep resizing. Lines did not stay attached at nodes so made moving them around a headache. I'd pay $50 for a good app - this one is not worth free.

  
  
• By CadMan47

  Excellent App

  I was looking for a reasonably priced app to handle electrical design work. This is it! Highly recommend this app if you do any type of electrical/electronic design work.

  
  
• By CAD Programmer

  Same horrible grid and routing issues

  This app seems to be only just slightly better than the “regular” ElectricDesign app, but still suffers from the same cruddy grid snapping issues. What the developer is failing to understand is that schematic layout should have TERMINALS on-grid, not shape boundary edges! It is impossible to get “clean” wire lines between components (simple connections without “jogs” in the lines) due to the horrible snapping and “kindergarten” routing. (You don’t accrue extra bonus points for the quantity of wire segments in your schematic!) Again, component terminals are not labeled. Again, there are bugs in the app (for example, unchecking “Keep proportions” does not allow you to resize a shape in one direction only). Incidentally, “Keep proportions” should default on, not off. Again, you cannot rotate shape labels. Again, there is no grid or alignment tools for creating new shapes. The shapes “library” has Ground symbols but no Vcc symbols. It would be very helpful with browsing if symbols were listed alphabetically. The new UI has a lot of cropped text. Even with a maximized window some of the toolbar commands are cropped and not readable. That’s really poor UI design. Zoom is VERY slow at high magnifications but behaves normally when viewing the full canvas. The zoom seems to work logarithmically rather than linear, which is very frustrating when zooming in and out from maximum magnification. Undo (command-z) resets your view (panning and zoom) and current selection, which is obnoxious. Exporting also changes your current view. Although this “pro” version overall has an improved UI and the ability to add connection points to custom shapes is a very welcome addition, the lack of practical grid-snapping and wire routing that is just plain irritating gives the app a very amateurish appearance.

  
  
• By GenXrider

  Excellent!

  This is an excellent app for the price. It's very feature rich and it's clear the developer put a lot of time and effort into "ElectricDesign". I'm using the Pro version to design schematics for CNC's and very happy.

  
  

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