Showing electronic schematics with point connections

[eganders]

Is there any EASY way to show a schematic with a wire connecting with a
dot and not connecting by just passing over the wire?

I have used Visio for drawing schematics many times in the past. I
have always been frustrated with the Visio way of drawing single wire
connections. The convention Visio uses is like the old schematics from
the middle of the 20th century. That is, all wires NOT connected are
shown with the wire jumping (bridging/hopping) over the wire. A
connection is shown when the wire crosses straight over the wire. Is
there any EASY way to show a schematic with a wire connecting with a
dot and not connecting by just passing over the wire as a real modern
schematic is generated? I once "created" a dot to put on a connected
intersection, but I felt that it complicated my effort.

 

[Paddy]

Is there any EASY way to show a schematic with a wire connecting with a
dot and not connecting by just passing over the wire?

I have used Visio for drawing schematics many times in the past. I
have always been frustrated with the Visio way of drawing single wire
connections. The convention Visio uses is like the old schematics from
the middle of the 20th century. That is, all wires NOT connected are
shown with the wire jumping (bridging/hopping) over the wire. A
connection is shown when the wire crosses straight over the wire. Is
there any EASY way to show a schematic with a wire connecting with a
dot and not connecting by just passing over the wire as a real modern
schematic is generated? I once "created" a dot to put on a connected
intersection, but I felt that it complicated my effort.

I quite agree with your gripe (non Visio, but general schematic diagrams)
where a non-joined cross-over is shown as a jumping loop. That has been
non-standard for over 30 years that I'm aware of - like the zig-line for a
resistor. It's like the USA being the only industrial nation that persists
with the archaic, confusing, obfuscatory Imperial units (even though they
snatched their time from George III's Empire well over 200 years ago). (as
an aside, I chuckled when I read of the NASA Mars shot that sort of, well,
missed, 'cos the engineer who calculated the trajectory worked in miles and
the programmer who programmed the computer worked in kilometres)

Regarding your specific query - like you, I simply added a couple of "blobs"
to a schematic stencil, and place them where required. I did play with a
right-click alternate symbol, but thought it not worth the effort. The
problem is that you can easily have multi-shapes with shapes, but
intersection points are not shapes.

Paddy

 

[eganders]

I still think it would be valuable to come up with an intersection dot
addition to a stencil. I have had this come up too long over the last
10 years, and I always just had a "work around" of "splotching" a dot
at the intersection. How inelegent!! I would like to have a dot that
would glue to an interection and move with it when it moved.

I have had this need for so long, and I am really getting into Visio
this time since it seems like it will be a powerful tool for many
applications when used to its full extent, especially a job I am doing
now.

 

[SAK-CO]

Radica Software is an excellent schematic program.

http://www.radicasoftware.com/Need2Know.asp