Software to create figure of experimental setup

[ucvoice]

I am writing my first journal paper. What is the best program to use for creating the figure for the experimental setup? Visio is too generic and is missing most of the components I am using. Any recommendations will be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Eigen]

You might have to give a bit more detail on what kind of setup we're talking about...

I'd suggest either a CAD program (if we're talking more mechanical setups) or just a vector drawing program. We draw most of our figures in Adobe Illustrator... Can take a while, but then you can cannibalize said figure for future modifications.