SOLIDWORKS Electrical includes a set of symbols. These symbols might be sufficient for your requirements, or you may need to create your own to meet a specific standard. You can either start from scratch beginning by drawing the image, adding the attributes and connection points, and adjusting the appearance to suit your needs or modify an existing symbol.
This article covers the SOLIDWORKS Electrical Save Environment command and two very important reasons why you should use it. The Save Environment command is located in the File tab and is used to save your SOLIDWORKS Electrical settings, projects, and libraries. This command allows you to save all or specific settings, configuration, and library information to a file (similar to a ZIP file) for backup purposes and/or transferring your settings to another computer.
In SOLIDWORKS Electrical, attributes are used to represent pertinent information about components. Typically, this information is represented in a single line of text, but occasionally, the text becomes unreasonably long and requires multiple lines. This article explains how to to wrap attribute text in SOLIDWORKS Electrical using the Multiple Attribute command in the Symbol Editor.
When taking the SOLIDWORKS Electrical Training Course, it's encouraged to ask questions. Here is a fantastic question I received that I'll discuss further in this article: What is the best approach to deleting a detailed cable out of a project in SOLIDWORKS Electrical?
It might become necessary to manually create an SQL instance for use with SOLIDWORKS Electrical, for example when upgrading to a newer version that requires an upgraded version of SQL Express. The installation manager will find the existing previous SQL version and not continue. As the installation manager is not able to perform this upgrade the installation process will stop. A solution is to create a new SQL instance manually. This solution can also be useful in cases where the SQL instance needs to be replaced. The previous instance can be removed later once it is verified that it is no longer required.
In this article, we discuss a common issue with combs and channel grouping often seen while creating PLCs in SOLIDWORKS Electrical. When creating a project within SOLIDWORKS Electrical, Programmable Logic Control is often used for automation. We can insert a PLC into a SOLIDWORKS Electrical project utilizing the PLC manager.
This article explains how to change the automatic root value for symbols inserted into the SOLIDWORKS Electrical documents (Single-line and Multi-line schematics). A symbol is just one representation of a Component. When making changes to a symbol already placed on a page in a project, remember that the overall component must be looked at, not just the symbol.
In SOLIDWORKS Electrical, it is important to identify components with component marks. This mark is used to create relations to other representations of the device. When a symbol is added to a Schematic or Line Diagram, we can either define it as a component already defined in the project or create a new component with a new mark (identifier). In this article, we discuss the four ways a new symbol can get its mark.
SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2024 brings many enhancements that help document designs more efficiently than ever before - in both 2D and 3D. In SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2024, users now have Auto-ballooning functionality when documenting 2D cabinet layouts. Click on Auto-balloon from the cabinet layout ribbon menu to easily create balloons to identify the components in a cabinet.