wiring diagram help please

[George (dicegeorge)]

I'm trying to make a wiring diagram of the existing wires in this house: there are many unknown wires!

Are there any standards on the web somewhere, I want it to be understandable by professional electricians..

I was going to use L for lights and F for fuses but Sockets and Switches both begin with S....

I think using colour will be so much better than black and white, but how to represent when wires go up and along then down again

3 dimensional wiring on 2 dimensional paper? [george]

[Roger Mills]

I wouldn't bother! I think, from what you've written, a professional electrician will be able to work out what's what far better than you can - without a diagram.

[Owain]

Use 3 dimensional paper. Ie for each room have the floor plan surrounded by elevations for each of the walls.

Or just draw a little circle on the plan to show drops/risers. Put an up or down arrow adjacent and note the height of each horizontal run.

Or use 3D CAD software.

Owain

[Andy Wade]

Standard designations are SKT for socket, SW for switch, FS for fuse, LP for lamp.

Isometric projection.

[George (dicegeorge)]

Thanks Owain and Andy

I'm looking at

my 3D CAD model of the house but it could take a few years to learn how to use it!

For wiring diagrams your idea of a floorpan with the 4 sides going off each side like a cutout cardboard model folded flat seems the one to go for - why didnt i think of that?

For softweare for 2D plans I use Microsoft Paint, a fantastic little program,

need something which i can copy and print, and scribble changes onto and which the professional electricians will understand when they come to do Part P work like testing and changing Consumer Units...

however I will be labeling wires, replacing broken sockets and mice-chewn wires, and inserting plastic or metal conduits hidden in the plaster and woodwork etc etc

[geoff]

In message , "George (dicegeorge)" writes

how about

[George (dicegeorge)]

yes geoff, i've looked at sketchup, in fact i bought a book on it and a book on blender but i only want to learn one 3d program they move in 3 dimensions in different ways..

Blender is more powerful, it can do animations too, and it works on linux windows and macs and is open source, so, unless convinced otherwise blender is the one to learn...

[Andy Burns]

IME sketchup is intuitive and blender is a bitch to learn.