Aviation Electrical Schematics

[BT13Guy]

Hello All,

I am a moderate user of Visio when I was in the military as well as a DoD contractor we used it a lot for electronic diagrams for ground control systems for UAS/UAV buildings.

I am now retired and working in civilian aviation and would like to use Visio as I know it, to design some simple wiring diagrams for a WWII aircraft we are restoring.  I have not found any stencils for aviation connectors? (i.e. Amphenol, D-Sub, etc). I simply want to hook up some radios, transponders, maybe the lighting schematics, nothing to crazy.

I have looked at "Rapid-Harness" and we do have a full version of SolidWorks that was issued by the Experimental Aircraft Association, it used to be free, now I am waiting on a new "cloud" subscription to download.....lots of bugs....I am not as familiar with SolidWorks Electrical as I am Visio.

So I am asking the pros here is anyone is using visio for these type applications?

Thank you in advance for any help you may lend us in our endeavors.

Dan

[Paul Herber]

Amphenol and D-sub greatly post-date WWII. I have some connectors like this in my electronics shapes at
https://www.paulherber.co.uk/visio-electronics/

[BT13Guy]

Paul,

They do very much don't they!     However what I am doing for our project is wiring up a radio box that comes in and out of the aircraft with Amphenol MIL-Spec plugs that quick disconnect.  We are restoring WWII 1942 Mitsubishi A6M3-32 Zero, and we have the original radio box for display, and a replica radio box that goes in and out of the airplane that has modern avionics installed for flight operations.  So, I am trying to document that schematic for the maintenance manuals as well as a build schematic for the harnesses themselves.

I am just wondering if there are some folks here that are using visio for this application.  I did search and see a few posts aviation related, but not much.  I am looking at your page as well and will probably be purchasing a couple of your stencil packs.

Thank you for the reply.

Dan