The Rowan Patents drawing tool now includes a set of electrical component stencils suitable for creating basic schematics, logic diagrams, and timing diagrams on the figure canvas. To access these open the Stencils panel and expand the Electrical Engineering stencil set. The new stencils can be dragged onto the canvas and assigned part data like any other stencil.
While dedicated schematic capture and timing simulation applications may still be the best resource for complex or specialized circuitry and experienced EE drafters, we’re pleased to provide this support to those who have requested a few fundamental symbols.
We believe a few of our newer features particularly complement simple schematic capture with these new stencils. For example, our new option for positioning part numbers to the left and right of a stencil combines with the flexibility of manual part numbering to allow designators of your choosing to be placed where you want them.
In addition, while our stencil architecture does not currently support dedicated attachment points like you might be used to, the majority of our stencils are designed so that center- or corner-anchored connectors will readily align with desired component nodes. Our new controls for snapping an anchor point to the border of the stencil allows you to secure your connector just where you’d want it to attach, even if you need to move connected stencils around the canvas, especially when orthogonal connector routing is used.
Altogether, we hope we’ve given you useful tools for illustrating electrical and logical circuitry in Rowan Patents. While we won’t be replacing a full schematic capture software suite any time soon, we’d deeply appreciate your feedback as you try out our new electrical engineering stencils in your own figure work.
