
The IEC and NFPA Library
Contains symbols compliant with EN 60617 and NFPA 79 standards.
The CP-Symbols Electrical – IEC, NFPA library includes the following categories:
- IEC (vertical symbols – switching, control and protection devices, measuring instruments, electrical energy generation and conversion;
active components – diodes, transistors, thyristors, various;
passive components – resistors, capacitors, inductors, delay lines, piezoelectric elements) - NFPA (vertical symbols – 1L, 2L, 3L, terminals, various;
horizontal symbols – 1L, 2L, 3L, terminals, identifiers, various)
The Floor Plan Library
Contains electrical installation symbols used in architectural and construction floor plans.
The CP-Symbols Electrical – Floor Plans library includes the following categories:
- Architectural and topographic plans (sockets, switches, push-buttons, labels, various – e.g., amplifiers, antenna heads)
- Lighting (lamps, fixtures, emergency lighting, connection points, light types, various – e.g., radiation field indicators)
- Power generation and conversion (power plants, generators, and others)
- Industrial automation and measurement (meters, recorders, various)
- Fire protection systems (sensors, extinguishing devices, control panels, alarms, various – incl. junction boxes, deprecated symbols)
- Alarm and surveillance systems (detectors, control panels, readers, barriers, signaling devices, various)
- Telecommunications (radio stations, antennas, telephones, various)
- Grounding (protective connections, protective risers)
- Passive components (e.g., delay lines)
- Medical (devices, nurse stations, X-ray image amplifiers, shock wave generators, electrosurgery, various – e.g., compression limiters, iris shutters, anode rotation)
- Consumer electronics and appliances (home appliances, audio/video, computers, timers, sound recording/playback, heads, various)
The Schematic Diagrams Library
Contains symbols used in various types of electrical, low-voltage, and telecommunication diagrams.
The CP-Symbols Electrical – Diagrams library includes:
- Switching, control, and protection devices (contacts, connectors, switches, contactors, disconnectors, push-buttons, relays, selectors, fuses, various – including deprecated)
- Lighting (lamps, emergency lighting, various)
- Measuring instruments (meters, recorders, thermocouples, various, deprecated)
- Power generation and conversion (motors, generators, transformers, transducers, various – e.g., thermoelectric generators, 3-phase inductive regulators; deprecated)
- Industrial automation and measurement (sensors, nozzles, meters, recorders, valves, actuators, converters, devices, controls, signal transformation symbols, various)
- Fire protection systems (sensors, control panels, various – e.g., junction boxes)
- Alarm and monitoring systems (detectors, signaling devices, communication systems, nurse call systems, control panels, readers, various, deprecated)
- EIB installations (sensors, converters, controllers, I/O modules, various)
- Telecommunication (filters, generators, converters, amplifiers, discontinuities, splitters, radio stations, telephones, various – e.g., star point connectors)
- Passive components (resistors, capacitors, inductors, delay lines, piezoelectric elements, deprecated)
- Active components (diodes, transistors, thyristors, tubes, various)
- Medical (devices, nurse stations, various)
- Consumer electronics and appliances (audio/video recording and playback, timers, various – e.g., gyroscopes)
- Lines (poles, lines and wires, electrical generation and conversion, telecommunications)
- Architectural/topographic plans (switches, various)
The Lighting Library
Includes an extensive database of lighting fixtures.
The CP-Symbols Electrical – Lighting library includes:
- Lighting (e.g., ceiling/wall fixtures, fluorescent lighting, various – panels, spotlights)
- Philips (industrial luminaires, recessed lights, downlights, FAREL luminaires, outdoor lighting, suspended and ceiling-mounted fixtures)
- Linear lighting (e.g., single/double fluorescent tube systems)
The Diagrams & Block Schematics Library
Contains symbols for block diagrams across many disciplines.
The CP-Symbols Electrical – Block Diagrams library includes:
- Algorithms (basic symbols, loops, data processing, I/O devices, data and memory, relationships, extras)
- Functional diagrams (symbols – e.g., operations, start steps, commands; signal components – e.g., on/off, time functions)
- Computer networks (e.g., scanners, sockets, computer terminals; network locations, servers, rack-mounted servers, others – fax, mobile phones)
- BPMN – Business Process Modeling Notation (events, gateways, activities, markers, task types, data)
- Persons
- Miscellaneous (e.g., arrows, crossings)
- Entity relationships (e.g., one-to-many, zero-to-one)
- Examples (network diagrams, quadratic equation algorithm, functional and block diagrams – electrical, process, BPMN)
General Functions in CP-Symbols Electrical:
- Lines (wires): Allows drawing of single-line wires and schematic lines
- Frames and title blocks: Library of standard drawing frames and title blocks
- Attributes and descriptions: Edit values of one or more symbol attributes
- Bill of materials: Generate BOMs from elements used in the drawing





