Electrical symbols for LO?

tim · 19 Jul 2009, 23:41

Has anyone found or drawn typical electrical symbols for us in LO? Most of them are pretty simple but it seems silly to do them myself if some nice person has already produced them...

I'm thinking of e.g. http://www.renovation-headquarters.com/electrical-symbols.htm

Dave R · 20 Jul 2009, 02:07

Tim, the Scrapbook things like arrows and such are really SKP models so would something like this get you started?

tim · 20 Jul 2009, 05:07

@dave r said:

Tim, the Scrapbook things like arrows and such are really SKP models so would something like this get you started?

Yes, yes it would. For some dumb reason it didn't even occur to me to look in 3DW for something essentially 2D.

Thanks again.....

Dave R · 20 Jul 2009, 10:08

Perhaps there should be a "2D Warehouse."

bjanzen · 20 Jul 2009, 15:50

Great suggestions, I'll look into it. And I'm glad someone independently discovered the joke I've been making internally about a 2D warehouse. But why stop there? 4D warehouse could contain both Euclidian and Minkowski space models, and the 5th Dimension warehouse could contain recordings from the band I listened to in junior high. .

b

Dave R · 20 Jul 2009, 15:55

tim · 20 Jul 2009, 16:21

Ack! I loaded that model. <b>Horrible</b>! The circles are made up of many arrow headed lines. With jagged edges. And take a look at 'component 24' on the bottom row just left of the earthing symbol. Good grief. Or 'component 8' top row third from left.

Wow. Guess I'll draw my own directly in LO and see how that goes.

tim · 20 Jul 2009, 16:25

@bjanzen said:

Great suggestions, I'll look into it.

I made a related point in the SU wishlist forum; if we could find textures in an analogue of the 3DW it would be a helpful way to gather a lot of stuff together. Adding a decen search to the materials browser would make it easy to use. Assuming, of course, that it doesn't result in the memory explosion problem that the component browser does....

Dave R · 20 Jul 2009, 17:01

Sorry Tim.

I didn't download the file. I just looked at the thumbnail.

Dave R · 20 Jul 2009, 17:10

Tim, since I steered you wrong with that link, I'll see if I can make it right. I'm waiting for a return e-mail from my brother. He might come up with something as a fix.

Dave

tim · 20 Jul 2009, 21:41

@dave r said:

Tim, since I steered you wrong with that link, I'll see if I can make it right. I'm waiting for a return e-mail from my brother. He might come up with something as a fix.

No guilt on your part Dave. It all looked fine in the snapshot.

I think it might actually be better drawn as LO graphics anyway since that includes rather better circles and line control.

Dave R · 20 Jul 2009, 21:52

Thank you.

Yes, you're probably correct about the appearance being better in LO.

bjanzen · 21 Jul 2009, 17:35

I made one, also, and my only suggestion is to look at the ones we have for architecture, and try to size in the same manner. Make paper 5" x 5", and make the symbols about 1/4", so folks wont have to resize them. I'm asking if I can share mine without getting into trouble.

b

tim · 22 Jul 2009, 03:36

Electrical Plan Symbols.layout
OK, here's a set derived from that webpage. I'm sure there are more that might be added at some point.

Open the LO file and save as scrapbook to add it to your system.

Problem - the text in the various symbols doesn't scale as you scale the damn symbols. Hunh? Any ideas?

[edit - replace file with one that has 1/2" and 1/4" diameter symbols per Barry's suggestion below]
[edit-edit - replace the damn file again with one that has more reasonable font sizes]

tim · 30 Jul 2009, 16:59

Here's another version of electrical symbols for LO without the pointless 1/2" sized version and with a legend table.
Electrical Plan Symbols.layout

mavie · 20 Feb 2010, 02:08

Hey B,
Yes, please, by all means we would like to see what you've got!
Thanks,
m.

bobpineo · 11 Oct 2010, 13:57

Thank you for sharing your Electrical Key Tim,
Deadline looming, and replicating this would have taken some time!
thanks again.
Bob Pineo

Klog · 8 Feb 2011, 00:48

Tim ... Thanks for sharing the electrical symbols. It is a problem I have been dealing with slowly. Klog

Krisidious · 8 Feb 2011, 02:26

I have a bunch of electrical symbols I made in layout.
Electrical Symbols Base.layout