I work on early stage spacecraft concepts, so I draft and edit spacecraft block diagrams often. Each and every time I'm frustrated by the "fiddliness" of tools like Powerpoint or Visio - lines overlap when I don't want them to, or don't when I do. I fight invisible grids when sizing and placing boxes. Legend entries end up ever-so-slightly misaligned. So I made my own little single-purpose tool.
Satblocks is the distillation of my own opinionated set of spacecraft block diagram requirements and needs into a niche tool. I actually had developed it in the framework of a larger early spacecraft development toolkit I've been building called Vesper[1] but I was so pleased with how charmingly effective it was, I decided to break it out as a standalone tool as well.
I'm not sure if it will be useful to anyone else, but for me it has been a wonderful small upgrade in building what can be tedious and fiddly system artifacts. Try it out!
Satblocks is the distillation of my own opinionated set of spacecraft block diagram requirements and needs into a niche tool. I actually had developed it in the framework of a larger early spacecraft development toolkit I've been building called Vesper[1] but I was so pleased with how charmingly effective it was, I decided to break it out as a standalone tool as well.
I'm not sure if it will be useful to anyone else, but for me it has been a wonderful small upgrade in building what can be tedious and fiddly system artifacts. Try it out!
[1] https://vesperastro.com