On Dec 23, 1:48*pm, Carl M wrote:
On Dec 23, 8:58*am, Bill Schwab wrote:

These designs need to be able to be pasted into
reports, modified easily by those with a minimum of training, and
analyzed. *It strikes me as odd that there is no software for folks
who need to do something other than power distribution and circuit
boards. *Trying to do wiring between boxes just doesn't seem to exist,
which boggles my mind. *

Oh, there certainly are programs if you can pry loose the funding.

Viewlogic will break up a design into a hierarchy with each module's
schematic appearing as a connected block at the next higher level. I
could design a Xilinx FPGA and simulate its schematic while also
placing it on the board as a component, the board was a block on the
backplane schematic, and the backplane was a block on the master
schematic. Each board level schematic was exported to PADS for the
board artworks. The interconnect cabling could come from the master
schematic if everyone was careful to put all I/O on each block.
There is enough drafting capability that I could create an isometric
view as the symbol for strange experimental devices with unlabelled
terminals.

It helped significantly that I ran both the CAD room and the
electronics lab and could make sure everything worked together.

I think both packages will output PDFs that can be pasted into Word.

Jim Wilkins