vfrdave Posted January 19, 2018 Posted January 19, 2018 Anybody recommend where/how I could draw a decent plumbing schematic drawing? I have a few queries I want advice on from the plumbing wizards on here but would prefer to furnish my post with a nice drawing/picture for clarity.
le-cerveau Posted January 19, 2018 Posted January 19, 2018 I just did mine on powerpoint. Put the appropriate cut out of the plans as a background (you need to be able to scale) and went from there. Some companies do have them but you then have to utilise all their parts which can be a pain of you are doing it non bog standard (as a lot on here are). 1
Nickfromwales Posted January 19, 2018 Posted January 19, 2018 This is something I'm currently on a vertical learning curve with. I don't know how people can work with computers all day Is Powerpoint one of the favourites? Just looking at Edraw at the mo. I'm not making this any more complicated than it needs to be
le-cerveau Posted January 19, 2018 Posted January 19, 2018 2 minutes ago, Nickfromwales said: Is Powerpoint one of the favourites? It is not what it is designed for but most people can use it easily enough for drawing lines/curves and inserting pictures.
chrisb Posted January 19, 2018 Posted January 19, 2018 If you can lay your hands on MS Visio, it lends itself quite well to this kind of thing. Don't spend £££ on it though - Powerpoint is a reasonable substitute.
vfrdave Posted January 19, 2018 Author Posted January 19, 2018 I do work with computers all day so can access both PowerPoint and Visio easily. I use Visio alot for network diagrams but when I looked I didn't think it was great for depicting valves/manifolds etc. Visio and office products were available at a very competitive price on Amazon for along time. 1
le-cerveau Posted January 19, 2018 Posted January 19, 2018 @vfrdave I agree, I have Visio also and it just didn't work for me, I found it easier to just use Powerpoint.
PeterW Posted January 19, 2018 Posted January 19, 2018 Visio has a massive library of M&E /HVAC symbol libraries if you know where they are - they are installed but not visible usually. This is my ASHP done in Visio 3
vfrdave Posted January 19, 2018 Author Posted January 19, 2018 That's the sort of thing I want to do @PeterW seems like I need to go and dig around Visio a bit more. 1
vfrdave Posted January 19, 2018 Author Posted January 19, 2018 That's your first mistake @Nickfromwales using a mac
Nickfromwales Posted January 19, 2018 Posted January 19, 2018 2 minutes ago, vfrdave said: That's your first mistake @Nickfromwales using a mac i have a feeling you may be right Just thought with an all ipad / all iphone house it would be easier to chop stuff between devices when on the go with the ipad and at home with the mac. Should it really be this difficult? 1 hour ago, PeterW said: Visio has a massive library of M&E /HVAC symbol libraries if you know where they are - they are installed but not visible usually. This is my ASHP done in Visio Thats a neat solution, but the closest i can see with a quick search is Lucidchart.com. Any others with a similar library? Decision time......
PeterW Posted January 19, 2018 Posted January 19, 2018 Lucidchart is the Visio for Mac. There are symbol libraries available for that too but not sure what ones. @vfrdave I will dig out the file names later so you can search for them or I can send them over.
Cambs Posted January 19, 2018 Posted January 19, 2018 19 minutes ago, Nickfromwales said: Thats a neat solution, but the closest i can see with a quick search is Lucidchart.com. Any others with a similar library? Decision time...... There is a possible online solution that would let you access from iPad/Mac/any device - Smartdraw. It does cost though - $9.95/month. There are a number of templates in there - look under "Engineering" https://www.smartdraw.com/templates/ 1
Silage Posted January 19, 2018 Posted January 19, 2018 @PeterW Great drawing. WHat's the tank adjacent to the UFH manifold. At first I though it was a buffer for UFH and maybe a take of for rads but it has a coil and the UFH is a direct feed to the UFH?
Plumbersmateuk Posted January 19, 2018 Posted January 19, 2018 3 hours ago, PeterW said: Visio has a massive library of M&E /HVAC symbol libraries if you know where they are - they are installed but not visible usually. This is my ASHP done in Visio The icons should be in a .dll or .exe file and you can extract them using an icon viewer or extracter. Can't rember which I used when I used to do this to customise things 1
PeterW Posted January 19, 2018 Posted January 19, 2018 27 minutes ago, Plumbersmateuk said: The icons should be in a .dll or .exe file and you can extract them using an icon viewer or extracter. Can't rember which I used when I used to do this to customise things Visio uses a slightly different method - they aren’t stored as icons and the libraries are a custom data type as I’ve tried to export them and transfer to LibreCAD previously using a couple of different tools. I’ve got the stencil files somewhere.
vfrdave Posted January 21, 2018 Author Posted January 21, 2018 On 19/01/2018 at 12:27, PeterW said: Lucidchart is the Visio for Mac. There are symbol libraries available for that too but not sure what ones. @vfrdave I will dig out the file names later so you can search for them or I can send them over. @PeterW that would be great thanks.
PeterW Posted January 21, 2018 Posted January 21, 2018 1 hour ago, vfrdave said: @PeterW that would be great thanks. You have a PM 1
PeterW Posted February 3, 2018 Posted February 3, 2018 For those that want to use Lucidchart there are plumbing symbols available under the P&ID headings - this is a US system ..! https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/p-id-symbols-legend
Nickfromwales Posted February 4, 2018 Posted February 4, 2018 4 hours ago, PeterW said: For those that want to use Lucidchart there are plumbing symbols available under the P&ID headings - this is a US system ..! https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/p-id-symbols-legend The only kick in the nuts is Lucidchart only allows 60 items per drawing with the free version. FECK!
a62vw Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 On 19/01/2018 at 14:45, Plumbersmateuk said: The icons should be in a .dll or .exe file and you can extract them using an icon viewer or extracter. Can't rember which I used when I used to do this to customise things Could I get a copy of that Visio file please? MTIA Vaughn,
Adrian Walker Posted December 13, 2019 Posted December 13, 2019 On 19/01/2018 at 12:01, vfrdave said: That's your first mistake @Nickfromwales using a mac Any mistake is not having a Mac - IMHO
Dreadnaught Posted December 13, 2019 Posted December 13, 2019 @Nickfromwales, if you are iPad-proficient, consider Morpholio Trace and just import a set of plumbing symbols to you liking. With it you can just overly a PDF of the client's floorpan (or any pdf template) with lines and symbols as you like, and share easily. Its a superb app and getting a lot of buzz. https://www.morpholioapps.com/trace/ 1
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