AutoSketch for electrical and electronic schematic drawing?

[contrawise]

On occasion, I need to draw electrical schematics.  I'm not after wiring in buildings or electrical services.  I need to express relay logic, electronic symbols, datacom symbols, hardware like transformers, batteries.  It would be great to be able to express DDC control logic as well.  Is AutoSketch a good tool for me to use?  I need to evaluate the collections of symbols that are available for use with AutoSketch, but got no happiness from from the web site chat person.  Are there other tools I should be considering

Thanks in advance for any wisdom or direction anyone can share! 

PS: The site spell checker offers some pretty interesting substitutions for the unknown word "AutoSketch."

Autodidact, anyone?

[pendean]

Autosketch is a generic drafting tool: paper/pen on a computer. It's not geared towards any industry, just 'everyone'. You'll have to make the effort to create your own content, symbols, and figure on other solutions/options for the other items you want.

If you want truly industry specific CAD from Autodesk, explore AutoCAD Electrical or AutoCAd MEP or REVIT MEP: none of these are cheap. There are comparably similar tools from other CAD vendors, but not at the Autosketch pricepoint.

PS: Autosketch is a dead product; system requirements are Windows XP from ten-years ago.

Good luck.

[contrawise]

Thanks for the helpful info! The page where I found it on the site did not present it as an EOLed product.

[josmeijer]

end of live is rather subjective, if we´re talking about a drawing program. It does not have any vital security breaches, as you don´t have to connect to the internet to fruitfully use it and it works great in Windows 8. 

I till now did not find anything that compares to it to make fast architectural and technical drawings and gives such great interchangability with Autocad files for such a fair price.

[josmeijer]

Think positive! You can find tons of Autocad libraries in public domain or at moderate prices comercially wich you can import. And if you got your copy legally there is a lot of symbols on the DVD.

[josmeijer]

you find all the symbols you describe in the libraries that come along with autosketch