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As an exercise and an example, we will here discuss two ways of creating a symbol for a “laser siren”, a figment of  imagination that however still gives you a good impression of how symbols for “real devices” are created.

 

 

The symbol should, when it is ready, look approximately as shown in the figure above. It should be defined as a conventional main symbol with both component type letter code and resource type H.

 

In separate sub-topics, the two main roads to the goal are described in detail, step by step.

 

•Creating a symbol from an existing one

•Creating a new symbol from scratch