british standard symbols

where can i get a copy of symbol tables - british standard
to cover light switches, sockets, fire services etc..

appreciate any help

many thanks

cj

 

CJ,

If you ever find any, do let me know - I have generally always made most of
mine myself. I have occasionally found the odd block that was useful, like
the disabled symbol, but generally I prefer my own "style".

I'm not sure that there is any central depository of CAD graphic symbols for
the UK as there seems to be in the US, just different interpretations by
different individuals. Most offices end up with a collection that has been
randomly put together and contributed to over the months and years by all
those who pass through, often collated and "regularised" by a later CAD or
office manager.

Gordon Stephens.

 

What (and for whom) are actually drawing for? They may have their own
requirements.

I do a lot of work for the volume housebuilders and they all seems to have
their own symbology they require you to use.


DJE

 

DJE,

Finding it a little difficult to see what you are asking here. I work for
numerous private and developer clients as well as other architects,
subcontractors, main contractors and services engineers. Most of the time,
I am amazed at the lack of concern or thought about standardisation of
symbols, even for instance when working for electrical sub-contractors where
one would have thought that some form of standardisation, for their site
operatives at least, would have been desirable. Many organisations are still
not CAD based, and the issue is simply not seen as important.

Don't know whether you are UK based or not, but there has been a long
tradition here of people "inventing" their own standards. I have worked in
offices (back in the days when we were all manual draughtsmen) with a
constant turnover of contract staff, each arriving with their own style of
draughting and their own collection of graphics standards. Mostly the
bosses could hardly care so long as the drawings conveyed what they were
supposed to and they were able to bill the clients.

I am not aware of any universally agreed symbology (in the UK) whether or
not individual companies and organisations choose to impose specific
requirements.

Gordon Stephens.