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| Posted by dorin at Dec 8, 2014, 2:36:22 PM |
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2D Symbols I've made a new version of a 2D symbols library. The symbols appear only in 2D plan. I could improve it with more symbols. See this 2DSymbols  ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by okh at Dec 8, 2014, 7:57:41 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Thanks, useful. I could improve it with more symbols. Sure that would be appreciated. ok |
| Posted by bitacovir at Dec 24, 2014, 2:51:49 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols I think your work is very useful. I saw many times people using CAD drawings to create these emergency plans with these symbols and everything is a mess, without clear standard. As a suggestion you could create a group of symbols related with other kind of plans such as orientation plans used in Shopping centers:  http://i.imgur.com/fWbVfhN.png Or maybe you can create symbols for electrical plans:  Anyway thanks four your contribution. |
| Posted by okh at Dec 26, 2014, 12:16:42 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols For amateurs like me, this is useful. Both the symbols library (dorin/eTeks) and the legend provided by bitacovir. Just a note on usage that works for me: Use models for the various fittings (sockets, lamps, etc.) and then group them with the symbol. That way the 2D plan shows the symbol, while the 3D view shows the correct lamp, socket etc. However, I have not managed to figure out what are standard symbols (especially for electricity). Lamp is easy, and already indicated with the light-sources, but for other elements I struggle. E.g. dorin's socket seems to have a slightly different meaning from bitacovir's. So if a pro cares to elaborate on the symbols library, so some text elaborate on the standard symbol sets would help. Wikimedia commons' collection of electrical symbols is of limited use to me without further explanation of what each symbol means. ok ok |
| Posted by okh at Jan 26, 2015, 1:47:24 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols I could improve it with more symbols. Playing around with the concept of symbols, I found out I actually needed to see the symbol location in both 2&3D views. At the same time I only wanted the lightsource itself when rendering. Very similar to the included light sources, but I wanted to make the mounting points more visible.However, it is also reasonably easy is to do the same for wall-lamps - and without the light source: electric sockets, switches etc. For cable pipes I suppose one could use the arrow set or use dimensions. Attributes for reference in the SF thread: 2DSymbols ok  |
| Posted by dorin at Apr 12, 2015, 6:22:14 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Like I promise, here is a new version. I've added some new symbols and I've remove the electrical. At this time the electrical diagram could be made bather with DIA. See this 2D Symbols  Link to library 2DSymbols v1.2 ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by carpearch2 at May 14, 2015, 9:39:41 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols What are you using to make the symbols? And how do you make them only show on the 2d-view? I have made electrical symbols using sh3d and export to obj but I could improve them if I could use something else to make them |
| Posted by dorin at May 17, 2015, 11:01:07 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols A) Prepare the system: 1. Install LibreOffice 2. Install GIMP 3. Download 2DSymbols 1.2.sh3f 4. Unzip in a folder named 2DSymbols (autodetect folders) 5. Make a new folder with name Electrical (for eg.) 6. Locate in 2DSymbols 1.2 the file with names: -invisibleCube.obj -PluginFurnitureCatalog.properties 7. Copy this files to Electrical folder 8. Open PluginFurnitureCatalog.properties and erase all exept the entry for the first symbol *Learn whats mean every entry in this kind of file B) Made the symbols: 1. Open a new LibreOfficeDraw file 1a. Draw the symbol whit the tools provided by LibreOffice 1b. Export it as png 1b1. Select the draw objects -> group it 1b2. Select the group -> convert as bitmap 1b3. File -> Export... -> as PNG [select the Electrical folder (give some-name.png)] 1b4. File -> Export... -> as PNG [select the Electrical folder (give some-namePlanIcon.png)] 2. Open the some-name.png in GIMP 2a. Image -> Auto Crop 2b. Colors -> Color to Alpha... (select white backgound to convert to alpha) 2c. File -> Owerwrite some-name.png 3. Open the some-namePlanIcon.png in GIMP 3a. Image -> Auto Crop 3b. Image -> Canvas Size... (make a square canvas to be showed in furniture catalog) 3c. File -> Owerwrite some-namePlanIcon.png C) Prepare the library: 1. Open the PluginFurnitureCatalog.properties in a text editor 1a. edit every entry 1b. for every entry select for model#[nr]= /invisibleCube.obj 1c. for every entry set width and depth as is for some-name.png 1d. ZIP the library D) Test library in SH3D ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by ElfenM at Sep 14, 2015, 8:37:16 PM |
Re: 2D SymbolsI think your work is very useful. I saw many times people using CAD drawings to create these emergency plans with these symbols and everything is a mess, without clear standard. As a suggestion you could create a group of symbols related with other kind of plans such as orientation plans used in Shopping centers: http://i.imgur.com/fWbVfhN.png I have not seen a Woolworths in years! This made my day, if not the week! |
| Posted by dorin at Sep 15, 2015, 2:16:57 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols New version. I've put back the electrical, I've add few new ones. I've remove lines and arrow lines. With new features of SH3D-v5.0 it's possible to make more.  Here is the link to library 2DSymbols.v1.5.0.sh3f and here ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by dorin at Jan 22, 2016, 9:29:39 AM |
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Re: 2D Symbols New version. I've added some new symbols. The library are here ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by fosterj2003 at Mar 16, 2017, 3:20:56 PM |
Re: 2D SymbolsIs it possible to update this library to add the electrical symbols that bitocovir has posted a picture of? my county requires these specific symbols in a layout of my basement. mainly i need the recessed light and the outlet symbols. |
| Posted by dorin at Mar 20, 2017, 10:25:56 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols New version. I've add the symbols demand by fosterj2003 and bitacovir . I use a modified script to generate the library thanks to alberich. The new script is inside of library. Here is a screenshot  The library are HERE ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by Miker777 at Mar 21, 2017, 12:11:58 AM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Thank you Dorin, appreciate your efforts Mike |
| Posted by bdfd at Mar 21, 2017, 7:02:41 AM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Great work Dorin !  ---------------------------------------- Evil progresses when good people do nothing! --- SH3D 7.1 and nothing else - W11 64b in 4K |
| Posted by VintageJim at Mar 21, 2017, 1:40:17 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Nice. Thank you! |
| Posted by Puybaret at Mar 21, 2017, 2:40:58 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Thanks Dorin for you effort to maintain this library  Would you be kind enough to update the ticket 3D models #325 too, please? ---------------------------------------- Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator |
| Posted by dorin at Mar 24, 2017, 12:25:37 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols New version 1.5.4. I've add some furniture symbols. Here are the news:  and the library Thanks to all who appreciate it. I need also some critics (the constructive ones). ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by dorin at Mar 24, 2017, 11:28:22 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols In version 1.5.5 will be more than 125 pieces. What do You think about to split in 3~4 separate library? Eg:2DSymb-electric; 2DSymb-emergency; 2DSymb-furniture. Any suggestions are welcome. ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by bdfd at Mar 25, 2017, 6:50:22 AM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Eg:2DSymb-electric; 2DSymb-emergency; 2DSymb-furniture Good idea ! ---------------------------------------- Evil progresses when good people do nothing! --- SH3D 7.1 and nothing else - W11 64b in 4K |
| Posted by Simon_Franke at Aug 23, 2017, 3:56:32 AM |
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Re: 2D Symbols I like your Symbols very much and wait for 1.5.5, i searching a long time for electric symbols. But I only have the power socket now, i am searching for power socket 2 / 3 ports and sat 2 ports, lan 2-3 ports too. Can you please help me ? I found some of the on https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Schaltzeichen_(Elektrik/Elektronik) as a SVG and edited it with Inkscape, but I don´t get it in Sweet Home. Can you add this few missing symbols to your library please or tell me how I can add it myself ? I am under pressure, because I have to finish my electro installation. Thank you very much |
| Posted by dorin at Aug 24, 2017, 11:33:14 AM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Yes I do. You'r wiki link has a very large range of symbols which mean I will need some time to process it. Send me the svg file (or upload somewhere for download e.g mediafire or googledrive) with those symbols needed for electric plan. I suppose the electronic symbols are not necessarily. For a fast work could be bather to save them individually as png with their name (could be German if You wish) from inkscape in a folder. I've made something similar here for Gianluca Bizzarro. This kind of library can't be done easy with Furniture Editor. ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by Simon_Franke at Aug 24, 2017, 7:05:01 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Hello Dorin, I am very happy und grateful, that you help me to finish the electric plan. I uploaded the prepared symbols on: https://www.mediafire.com/file/t761t1iq7a3xkn2/Symbole.zip It includes PNG and SVG files, but I don´t know if It will be good enough for the plan and could be read on DIN A4, because its not scalable as PNG without lost of quality. The quality seems very bad and small after saving the SVG as PNG. :( Thank you very much |
| Posted by dorin at Aug 25, 2017, 12:12:19 AM |
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Re: 2D Symbols I prepare the library for You. Is not perfect but hope You can use it. If something is not correct please let me know. Symbole-el-German Good luck! ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by Simon_Franke at Aug 25, 2017, 4:23:28 AM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Hello Dorin, thank you very much, thats helps my family and me a lot to finish the electro-installation. I think its perfect, great and very fast work. |
| Posted by dorin at Aug 29, 2017, 3:53:21 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols New version 1.5.5. I've split it in few separate file: * Symbols-electrical (72 items) * Symbols-emergency (40 items) * Symbols-furniture (71 items) ** Symbols-electrical-de (39 items) - in german ** Symbols-emergency-Switz (110 items) - in german All library are available here PS: A GPL-3.0 licence file is added. ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by Berndi at Oct 22, 2019, 4:09:55 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Hey Dorin, many thanks for yozr work. Would it be possible to add some symbols to the electrical-library? regards, Berndi |
| Posted by dorin at Oct 24, 2019, 4:18:06 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Almost everything is possible. Which one? Give me some point or some graphical picture of what you want. Don't forget to indicate the name for it. I can't promise but I try to help You. ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by mostafanasr at Jan 7, 2020, 7:29:50 AM |
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Re: 2D Symbols thank you |
| Posted by BriCo at May 23, 2020, 2:18:52 AM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Dorin, Thank you for the electrical symbols. I am in California, USA and want the US electrical symbols, of which I see you have a few (e.g. Duplex outlet, Ceiling Light, etc.), but many are missing. I would like to try creating them but haven't figured out the best way to do it. I looked at 3D software like Blender, and they all seem like overkill for a simple 2D symbol. How did you create yours, and/or what would you suggest I use? I'm willing to put in the effort if it's not going to take weeks. :-) |
| Posted by dorin at Jun 16, 2020, 2:43:13 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols As I've say already in my previews post <<Which one? Give me some point or some graphical picture of what you want. Don't forget to indicate the name for it. I can't promise but I try to help You.>> it remain as truth for every one including You. Usually I like to help (if I can). ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by XPcRUSHER at May 22, 2021, 1:52:16 AM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Hello, I have on this day create a Windows VB.NET application. Based on the Linux script Create2DSymbols.sh Only for create a 2D Object bibliothek. Is the PNG picture 250x250 px then is the object 25cm in SH3D! Testing and give me a answere. Github  |
| Posted by AlainS at Sep 8, 2022, 9:04:45 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Is this thread still active? I'm asking as I'm trying to import the Belgian electrical symbols available in PNG format at https://www.zelfverbouwen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/AREI-symbolen.zip. I have used the Windows VB.NET application from XPcRUSHER in this forum to convert some symbols to .sh3f. However I don't see them in Sweet Home after import. Any suggestions how I can get the AREI symbols in Sweet Home? |
| Posted by dorin at Sep 9, 2022, 7:46:48 AM |
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Re: 2D Symbols At this moment I can't help you because I'm far from any computer. At end of next week I will make that library for you. ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by dorin at Sep 12, 2022, 9:17:04 AM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Your library are here . ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by AlainS at Sep 13, 2022, 10:45:40 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Thank you very much, this saves my day! |
| Posted by Valerio at Oct 25, 2024, 12:45:38 AM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Ciao scusa la mia ignoranza ma io ho fatto tutti i passaggi da te descritti ma lla fine mi ritrovo una cartella con i png e i 2 file di cui uno modificato, a questo punto tu scrivi ZIP la libreria; cioe? devo compattare tutta la cartella in un formato zip? e poi come la importo in sweet home 3 d? Spero che mi possiate aiutare, grazie |
| Posted by dorin at Nov 1, 2024, 6:31:49 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Sorry for the late response. I've seen your question only today. 1. A furniture library or a texture library is basically zip archives. 2. So, you have to change the extension .zip to .sh3f or .sh3t 3. Starting with version 1.5.3 I've made a bash script Create2DSymbols.sh to simplify this process under linux which is inside the package. 4. While it's not quite that simple I could made it for you like I've already done for others fiends here. ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by DelJulio at Jul 14, 2025, 3:11:33 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Hi, Dorin! I'm writing here just to thank you! Yor instructions and packages help me a lot. Probably I will put here a Library for Brasil standards 2d Electrical (when finished). |
| Posted by dorin at Jul 15, 2025, 9:02:32 AM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Of course! Here and on Source Forge or even here . ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by n00blance at Aug 18, 2025, 3:02:56 AM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Hey there dorin, I've tried to make my own library with the ISO 7010 symbols but have been unsuccesfull, would you be kind enough to help me with this somehow? I'll provide you with the link to the icon pack. I've tried making the library manually and also using the .sh script, although looks like I can't run it hence I've a Windows machine. https://www.bravecroc.de/en/sicherheitszeichen-nach-iso-7010 Thanks in advance :) |
| Posted by dorin at Aug 22, 2025, 9:07:20 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols Sorry for the late response! You have two different sizes: big and small . Use which you want. ---------------------------------------- A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law |
| Posted by Keet at Aug 22, 2025, 10:24:54 PM |
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Re: 2D Symbols I have a created a Texture Library with the same images and added it to the Traffic Signs page on dodecagon.nl. All images are in the public domain (CC0 1.0 Universal). Now you can use these as textures on the models from the DodecagonTrafficSigns furniture library. ---------------------------------------- Dodecagon.nl 1300+ 3D models, manuals, and projects |
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