Good drwaing tool for PFDs and MFDs
Good drwaing tool for PFDs and MFDs
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Ladies and Gentlemen
I have searched fruitlessly for days to find a suitable drawing program. I want to draw mech. flow diags and process flow diags. has anyone got a copy of freeware ar can you recommend anything please.
Best
Marius
I have searched fruitlessly for days to find a suitable drawing program. I want to draw mech. flow diags and process flow diags. has anyone got a copy of freeware ar can you recommend anything please.
Best
Marius





RE: Good drwaing tool for PFDs and MFDs
RE: Good drwaing tool for PFDs and MFDs
If you want to try Excel, I would suggest setting up a template file for your drawings based on your desired paper output (letter or ledger, portrait or landscape, etc).
Set your row height and column width so that you produce a square of small size on your template, that way you get an on-screen grid to work with and can use the snap to grid feature in the drawing menu to help keep everything in line. As with most PFDs, you could include a heavy border to indicate the limits of your drawing field.
If you want to display numbers in cells with the small grid size, you will probably need to setup the cell format to either merge cells or use the center across cells feature. Merge cells may be the most direct but it can cause problems if you need to edit a row or column and try to select a row or column that does not include all of the merged cells. For that reason, I prefer using the center across feature along with other alignment codes.
Besides a template drawing area, you can also create standard images that you can copy and paste without having to recreate them each time.
Of course you have to have Excel to begin with and it will take time to get proficient at using it but that is needed with any new software.
RE: Good drwaing tool for PFDs and MFDs
Btw, you can pickup the symbols packages for P&ID's or PFD's from the ISA at
www.ISA.org
Hope this helps.
saxon
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RE: Good drwaing tool for PFDs and MFDs
RE: Good drwaing tool for PFDs and MFDs
Marius
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RE: Good drwaing tool for PFDs and MFDs
You can also use Smartdraw. It is powerful than Visio.
Hope it helps..!
Chem55
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RE: Good drwaing tool for PFDs and MFDs
RE: Good drwaing tool for PFDs and MFDs
RE: Good drwaing tool for PFDs and MFDs
My Nephew, somewhat smarter than me, realised you can get earlier versions as free downloads.
An internet serach for "free downlaods Serif" might find it.
Serif have a very good attitude to passing on your old software to new users when you upgrade and you can get some good deals from them direct.
Including TurboCad (version 8, I think for a very low price.
JMW
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http://www.openoffice.org/
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~NiM
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Marius
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