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Thread ID: 43356 2004-03-12 04:17:00 Anybody know of a free source for electrical symbols? Billy T (70) Press F1
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221897 2004-03-12 21:10:00 Thanks Godfather, I'll scratch that idea. I guess Bkt was just being helpful, either that or he has confused me with somebody who has money.:(

I have kids instead. :_|

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
221898 2004-03-12 22:37:00 I've got a fairly basic set of symbols that came with autosketch that I have converted to metafiles and put into a word document. You are welcome to those if I can get the doc to you. It is easy enough to create your own in word using MS draw, the drawing package that comes with word, and probably publisher. Personally, I find it a real bugger of a thing to use, but it is "free" and once you've created the picture you can copy it to a real grahics program to save as a drawing file. andy (473)
221899 2004-03-12 22:41:00 There is a trial of Smart Draw http://www.smartdraw.com/ that might be able to do what you're wanting. Not sure if it comes with the required symbols in the trial or not though. -=JM=- (16)
221900 2004-03-12 22:42:00 A Google image search (images.google.co.nz) brought up a stack of images Greg S (201)
221901 2004-03-12 22:44:00 Also of course there are evaluation copies of MS Visio software available as well.

www.microsoft.com
-=JM=- (16)
221902 2004-03-13 01:54:00 Just d/loaded SmartDraw and tried it, very nice and it has the electrical symbols, 17Meg d/l though. Thanks for the info. zqwerty (97)
221903 2004-03-13 02:16:00 > Visio starts at $499.
>
> Its not free, as its part of the "Office" range of
> programs but not included with any versions of
> Office. Its an add-on.

I've actually got it as part of my Office 2003 Pro suite ?:|
Greg S (201)
221904 2004-03-13 03:12:00 > I've actually got it as part of my Office 2003 Pro
> suite ?:|

Well done! ... In my Office 2002 Pro only a demo was included ...
godfather (25)
221905 2004-03-13 03:14:00 I didn't even know I had it... your comment just made me look further. What a cool programme it is too. So thanks! Greg S (201)
221906 2004-03-13 04:16:00 > A Google
> image search (images.google.co.nz
> bols&btnG=Google+Search&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa
> e=off&output=search) brought up a
> stack of images


AAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHh..............X-(

Why didn't I think of that??? What makes it worse is that on Friday night I spent an hour helping one of my kids do homework research using nothing but Google images. Talk about brain-fade :_|

Thanks all, this is only an occasional need for me, so I'll work through the suggestions and see which will suit best. Personally I find drawing them myself to be slow and not very satisfying process.

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
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