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When working in SOLIDWORKS Electrical, you will often need Programmable Logic Control (PLC) for automation. This guide explains the process for adding PLC Drawing configurations to Electrical projects.

When working in SOLIDWORKS Electrical, placing symbols and defining part info is common practice. However, there are times when a symbol always has the same info, and having to re-enter it every time the symbol is placed is time-consuming and redundant. This article explains how to save this data to a symbol for easy access and placement. 

When working in SOLIDWORKS Electrical, changing user data fields to more relevant property names can be a helpful step for companies when reporting. Doing so helps to eliminate the need for a "cheat sheet" to keep track of which user data field corresponds to which property. Each component classification gets its own user data fields and can be modified as needed. This guide will go over the steps to do so.

In SOLIDWORKS Electrical, certain items are shared across the program, while others, like Wire Styles, are specific to the project they were made in. This can cause extra work if you frequently use the same wire styles across some or all of your projects. However, there is a way around this. By creating your commonly used wire styles and saving them in a custom template, you can avoid recreating styles and instead have them readily available for any future projects. In this guide, we go over the steps to create the wire styles and the custom template.

There may come a time when the uninstallation of SOLIDWORKS Electrical is necessary. Whether the goal is to perform a clean reinstallation of the program or to completely remove it from a particular workstation, these steps will eliminate all items associated with SOLIDWORKS Electrical. These items include program files and folders, registry entries, data files and folders, and download files and folders.

If you’re reading this article, you are either thinking of buying SOLIDWORKS Electrical or you are an existing user and experiencing issues. This could either be SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematics, the standalone program, or the SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D add-in for the SOLIDWORKS CAD software.

There are some great new features and enhancements in SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2025. Let's make a 3D design change that starts with the 2D schematic and flows all the way to the drawing of the 3D assembly.

Now, with the CircuitWorks add-in available in all levels of SOLIDWORKS (Premium, Professional, and Standard), anyone can open eCAD files.  CircuitWorks has a completely overhauled user interface with 2025, including a new look and better scaling to 4K. With just this IDX file, CircuitWorks can build an entire 3D model. The assembly uses volume representations of components, keep-outs, cuts, and more.

There are some great new enhancements to SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2D 2025. Let's get started by opening a few of the drawings from the Proteus Motion V2 project.