----- Original Message ----- [ from Aeroelectric
List and subsequent private e-mail to get an Excel file wiring diagram
]]
Bill, I've noted with great interest the
exchange about using Excel for creating shapes and creating
schematics.
I've looked at the 2 jpg files in the
Photoshare of Matronics.
Will you please send me your spreadsheet(s) as
attachment(s) to an e-mail? I'd really like to avoid having to
re-create all the symbols you've already created.
. . . It also seems very impressive that all
the parts lists, load analysis, etc can all be in one "linked system" of
spreadsheets.
. . . I've not previously used "linked"
spreadsheets - sounds a lot like "data base" operations - relational data
bases. If you have any tips on "how to set up the related
spreadsheets" I'd appreciate it.
. . . If you were to send this to the list
instead of to me by private e-mail, would the attached files be stripped off
by the Matronics server? I think maybe so - I believe that is why we
wind up having to use private e-mails to share files.
. . . If so, the body of your e-mail could be
"to requester", save the e-mail where you can find it easily, and then when
additional requests came in, just forward the "generic e-mail" to each one,
without having to compose anything. Would save you a lot of
time.
I think you've hit on something much simpler
and better than the CAD programs. I use Intellicad which is an open
source clone of Autocad. It is great for engineering drawings of metal
parts but I find it highly labor intensive and frustrating to use for
modifying one of 'lectric Bob's Z diagrams. Thus my interest in Excel,
with its "rubberbanding" capability for moving parts with the connecting
line(s) maintained between the moved parts.
David Carter
RV-6 (working on canopy frame, RX-8 engine, and
wiring various things and still studying what is being shared on the
"lists")