HI
This is my first post on here so please be gentle!
I am a electrician and have purchased CorelCad, with the hope of editing existing building plans to become as-fitted plans.
To do this I need electrical symbols (British Standard).
My question is, is there a web site that I can purchase these from or does anyone know of anywhere that I can get them from?
Hello snglishsparks; There are fonts that have different letters for symbols. I have not used CorelCAD, but most cad software has symbols built in or can be bought as a add on.
George
Hi Englishsparks,
You won't have many symbols to make. I'd suggest that as you come to each new symbol, make it by hand ( it's not difficult ) then select all the parts of it, and select "makeblock" or type "makeblock" to convert it into a block, then name it. You can then use insertblock ( either via INSERT under menu, or just type insertblock ) and name it, and it will appear.
Or you can design them all once, save as DWF, then load them via BROWSE when INSERTBLOCK
Or you can go somewhere that has them all "free" like: http://symbols.radicasoftware.com/ - And download the DWF's you want, install them into a directory to browse to, INSERTBLOCK then BROWSE and scale accordingly.
Many ways to achieve this. Fonts too, but I get the feeling you will need to use blocks.
Regards
David
Oh, and if you have a lot, sometimes just "copy" the block and paste it wherever you want it... Very quick to do a large diagram that way :)
You could contact Cadprofi (www.cadprofi.com) to ask if their CP symbols library works with CorelCAD. Their libraries are based on ISO and other widely used (inter)national standards. Since most recent versions of British Standards are lately more often identical to the ISO/EN standards this may be an option.
Their CadProfi line software is more expensive as well as more extensive than their CP Symbols line but will be useful if you need the automation and extra symbols.