What software do you guys use ? 

Dia, mostly.

But I am going to try qelectrotech today.

I'm an opensource junkie though.

I really like the way the diagrams looks on victrons forums, wonder what they use.

18 minutes ago, MartinCoetzee said:

wonder what they use.

Visio.

But I don't run Windows, so that is off the table for me 🙂

I have used https://www.draw.io/ - example:

 

MS Paint 😎

10 hours ago, plonkster said:

Visio.

But I don't run Windows, so that is off the table for me 🙂

Visio is quite pricey.

After a youtube video or two just to get me started, I eventually drew this in qelectrotech after messing around for a few hours. It was not too bad at all. It only crashed once (and I am one version behind).

On 2019/05/02 at 12:08 PM, plonkster said:

After a youtube video or two just to get me started, I eventually drew this in qelectrotech after messing around for a few hours. It was not too bad at all. It only crashed once (and I am one version behind).

Would you mind sharing your diagram? 

Sure... here you go. No guarantees that it is acceptable 🙂

 

PV-system.qet

ProfiCAD

27 minutes ago, plonkster said:

Sure... here you go. No guarantees that it is acceptable 🙂

 

PV-system.qet 130.7 kB · 1 download

Thanks! I just want to build on it. 

 

For the record, there are ongoing discussions on the Victron Community about Victron possibly releasing their Visio stencils. Their big concern is that they do not want community drawings being taken for official drawings.

I subscribed to Visio online to find out you cannot  import stencils, any way around this without having to pay 5k to 9k for the package ? I already have office 365.

How about the free and Open Source "Libre Office Draw"? This will import any Visio diagram.

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/draw/