Electrical Part Library

I'm curious if anyone wants a part library for electric symbols. I have the IEEE/ANSI standards for these symbols and am eager to make a library of these symbols for the LibreCAD community.

Hi ironroot,

LibreCAD relies on its user community to share part libraries.

Please feel free to take lead here.

Thanks,

Dongxu

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:31 PM, ironroot [via LibreCAD]
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> IEEE/ANSI standards for these symbols and am eager to make a library of
> these symbols for the LibreCAD community.


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Thanks ironroot,
As Dongxu said - all part libraries would be greatly appreciated,
especially ones that lead to a community maintained repository.

Someone suggested starting a community maintained part library and
this could be a great start. To do it, I'd suggest setting up a repo
somewhere (github, gitorious, sourceforge, etc.) where users can
submit new files to. Important to note:
1) You must be the copyright holder of whatever you contribute, or
have a license to allow you to contribute
2) Your content must be given a license which allows redistribution by
librecad. Here are some:
http://opensource.org/licenses
I think good ones, for part libraries, would be
GPL-v2+ (what librecad's contributions are licensed as)
CC-BY-SA
CC-BY-SA-NC (for non-commercial use only, prevents distribution in
things like Ubuntu and Debian)

it's ideal if you can pick one and only allow contributions to use
that license, but if people want to do piecemeal licensing make sure
you keep track of which files are which license.
~Scott

Hi Scott,

I would like to contribute, at least, with few parts I need for one simple design in my current project (CB, RCCB, SP, etc).

Although I probably need mentoring on this, since I am not very familiar CAD, in general.

For instance, can I import the CAD files (dfx) provided by the manufactures ?  Would it infringe their license or forbid later redistribution ?

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Hello Celso

Celso Providelo wrote

For instance, can I import the CAD files (dfx) provided by the manufactures ?  Would it infringe their license or forbid later redistribution ?

You would need the manufacturer's permission, most ' free/ symbols/block etc. have a free licence state, something like Creative Commons.
For info see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons

If you have any 'Free' blocks you can always post them here in this forum:

http://forum.librecad.org/Useful-library-symbols-and-blocks-f5707181.html

Sorry for my delayed response. I am still learning LibreCAD and I will start as soon as I can.

08/13 Update: I am no longer busy with other projects and will try to start this library in a month or two.

I would like to have the electrical part library. If you have down load link / zip file, kindly send it to vkadal@gmail.com

Ironroot,
I would appreciate the electrical symbol library.  please email link to info@electrosun.me

Thanks in advance for any help

see eg: http://www.qcad.org/fr/qcad-add-ons

I'd like to add DXF files to librecad-Wiki. Unfortunately it refuses non-image files up to now (someone has to find the lines where Mime-settings for DXF files are defined in mediawiki software).

Ferdi,

R. van Twisk wrote

I wasn’t aware that  the upload still failed!

Please see: http://forum.librecad.org/DXF-files-in-Librecad-Wiki-td5710006.html#a5710023

R. van Twisk wrote

For the QCad part’s library. There are license issues with it, each zip doesn’t contain any copyright and/or license information.
For this reason we cannot copy the zip and upload it to our wiki.

Don't be afraid, I am aware about it. Even if the diagrams themselves are not protected because of their simplicity the collection may be.

Will be a good idea to share electrical, mechanical, architectural and other areas part library.