Free online schematic editor from Digi-Key(digikey.com)
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Free online schematic editor from Digi-Key
http://www.digikey.com/schemeit
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Agreed. Still useful for open-source projects :)
Not so much sadly. Its rather limited in terms of design area, and the technology probably wouldn't scale to larger schematics anyway since its SVG based and currently SVG performance scales rather badly in most browsers.
Likewise there is no PCB editor, nor any import/export formats that would enable you to use your designs in a more practical fashion.
Having said all that however, its a great tool for creating diagrams for App Notes and technical articles / blogs. Works really nicely for the simple designs and examples that are so common when writing about electronics design. They've actually been fairly careful to market it on their site as a schematic drawing tool, not a schematic editor and this is a distinction that needs to be made since the two are not the same use-case at all.
Still, good to see more companies innovating in this space!
Likewise there is no PCB editor, nor any import/export formats that would enable you to use your designs in a more practical fashion.
Having said all that however, its a great tool for creating diagrams for App Notes and technical articles / blogs. Works really nicely for the simple designs and examples that are so common when writing about electronics design. They've actually been fairly careful to market it on their site as a schematic drawing tool, not a schematic editor and this is a distinction that needs to be made since the two are not the same use-case at all.
Still, good to see more companies innovating in this space!
Excerpt of the terms and conditions:
8. Rights to End User Content. By posting, uploading, or transmitting any data or other content on or through the Application, or causing any data or content to be posted, uploaded, or transmitted on or through the Application (the "End User Content"): (i) you represent and warrant that you are the owner of the End User Content and/or that you have the right to grant the licenses to Digi-Key contained in this Agreement; and (ii) you grant to Digi-Key a fully-paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, transferrable, sublicensable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use the End User Content (in whole or in part) for any and all purposes, subject to the terms of the Digi-Key Privacy Policy, the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference. Digi-Key may use End User Content for marketing and market research and for other purposes as set forth in this Agreement.
8. Rights to End User Content. By posting, uploading, or transmitting any data or other content on or through the Application, or causing any data or content to be posted, uploaded, or transmitted on or through the Application (the "End User Content"): (i) you represent and warrant that you are the owner of the End User Content and/or that you have the right to grant the licenses to Digi-Key contained in this Agreement; and (ii) you grant to Digi-Key a fully-paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, transferrable, sublicensable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use the End User Content (in whole or in part) for any and all purposes, subject to the terms of the Digi-Key Privacy Policy, the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference. Digi-Key may use End User Content for marketing and market research and for other purposes as set forth in this Agreement.
Well that kinda takes the buzz off. Give them an A for effort though, this will presumably get them a lot of schematics that they then have rights to exploit. I'm thinking the 'Encyclopedia of modern circuits' series which was a collection of small one-off circuits that has done well for Rudolf Graf (caveat the occasional lawsuit).
It was also pretty slow on Firefox on Linux but it may be faster in a different configuration.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Electronic-Circuits-Rudol...