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SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic Course Overview

The SolidWorks Electrical Schematic course aims to teach you how to use SOLIDWORKS Electrical to optimize your drawings and designs for manufacturability so you can maximize quality, avoid rework, and decrease time to market.

Specifically, users will learn how to use SOLIDWORKS Electrical to integrate the electrical and mechanical design processes and identify design problems earlier in the process, resulting in less rework (both mechanical and electrical), improved quality, and decreased time to market.

 

Skills Learned:

  • Understand project configuration, templates, and cross reference formulas
  • Create and edit line diagrams, associate symbols to components, draw multiple scheme wires
  • Find and create relationships between manufacturers parts and circuit symbols
  • Create and modify multi-wire styles, and customize wire numbering by style and/or equipotential
  • Create user defined cable and cores
  • Create and modify symbols, symbol properties, circuits, terminals and passing types
  • Add origin-destination arrows to wires, replace and edit existing wire marks.
  • Create and modify PLC marks, symbols, and configurations, automatically create PLC drawings
  • Create 2D Cabinet layouts, utilizing cabinets, ducts, and rails. Optimize From-To wire cabling
  • Check designs using design rule checks for conflicts with equipotential, fuse requirements, duplicates, and wire gauge
  • Create Bill of Materials, list of cables, and drawing list reports
SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic Training

Course Duration

3 Days  (7 hours/day)

Prerequisites

SOLIDWORKS Essentials Course

Electrical design experience

Experience with the Windows operating system

Onsite Training

Course Examples

Templates
Create templates to include critical data in projects and standardize project creation
Symbol LIbraries
Build custom connectors and pin out details; tie symbol to 3D model
Working with connectors
Build custom connectors and pin out details; tie symbol to 3D model
Screenshot
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Build custom connectors and pin out details; tie symbol to 3D model
Build custom connectors and pin out details; tie symbol to 3D model
Generate Reports
Automatically create reports, customize layout, & sort data
Error Checks

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic Course Syllabus

Lesson 1: Project Templates

  • Starting SOLIDWORKS Electrical
    • The User Interface
  • What are Projects?
  • Project Templates
  • Project Configurations
    • General
    • Graphic
    • Symbol
    • Attribute
    • Text
    • Mark
    • Title Blocks
    • Libraries and Palettes
  • How is a Project Structured?
    • Book
    • Folders
    • Drawings
    • Project Storage
    • Formula Managers
    • Title Blocks
  • Exercise 1: Creating a Template

Lesson 2: Modifying Project Templates

  • What are Environments?
  • Draw Multiple Wires
    • Style Selection
    • Wire Style Selection
    • Project Macros
    • Environment Data Selection
  • Exercise 2: Modifying a Template

Lesson 3: Drawing Types

  • What are Drawing Types?
    • Drawings
    • Scheme
    • Creating Drawings
  • Existing and Archived Projects
    • Opening an Existing Project
    • Unarchiving a Project
    • Closing Projects
  • Line Diagram Symbols
    • Adding Symbols
    • Symbols Library
    • Symbol Orientation
  • Adding Cables
    • Schematic Drawing
    • Scheme Best Practices
  • Symbols Panel
  • Schematic Symbols
  • Symbol Properties
    • Types of Properties
  • Exercise 3: Drawing Types

Lesson 4: Symbols and Components

  • What is a component?
    • Component Identification
    • Component Symbol Identification
  • Deleting Components
  • Description Columns
  • Symbol Component Association
  • Exercise 4: Symbols and Components

Lesson 5: Manufacturers Parts

  • What are Manufacturers Parts?
    • Circuits and Terminals
    • Circuit Association
  • Finding Manufacturer Parts
    • Search Options
    • Editing Parts
    • Circuit Symbols
    • Circuit Association
  • Electrical Assemblies
  • Exercise 5: Manufacturers Parts

Lesson 6: Wires and Equipotentials

  • Equipotentials and Wires
    • Wire Styles
  • Wire Style Manager
    • Numbering Group
  • Replacing Wires
    • Replacement Range
  • Equipotential Numbering Results
  • Wire Numbering Results
  • Using Nodal Indicators
  • Exercise 6: Wires and Equipotentials

Lesson 7: Cabling

  • What is Cabling?
    • Changes in the Wiring Diagram
  • Cables
  • Detailed Cabling
  • Terminal Strip
  • Pin to Pin Connections
    • Wires
    • Terminals
    • Creating a New Cable
    • Adding Terminals to the Strip
    • Terminals Editor
  • Copy and Paste
  • Exercise 7: Cabling

Lesson 8: Symbol Creation

  • Symbols and Standards
  • Symbols Manager
  • Symbol Properties
  • Circuits, Terminals, Types
    • Circuit Transmission
    • Connection Point Insertion
  • Multiple Attribute
  • Splitting Attribute Data
  • Add to Library
  • Copy, Paste Symbol
  • Exercise 8: Symbol Creation

Lesson 9: Macros

  • What are Macros?
  • Creating and Adding Macros
    • Creating a New Group
    • Project Macros
    • Paste Special
  • Exercise 9: Macros

Lesson 10: Cross Referencing

  • What is Cross Referencing?
    • Cross Reference List
    • Cross Reference State Colors
    • Cross Reference Text Coding
    • Cross Reference Types
    • Same Level Cross Referencing
    • Cross Reference Location Listing
  • Exercise 10: Cross Referencing

Lesson 11: Managing Origin-Destination Arrows

  • What are Origin-Destination Arrows?
  • Origin-Destination Arrows
    • Interpreting the Arrow Text
  • Exercise 11: Origin-Destination Arrows

Lesson 12: Dynamic Programmable Logic Control

  • What is a PLC?
    • Dynamic Insertion
  • Adding a New Scheme
  • Adding a PLC Mark
  • Inserting a PLC
    • PLC Configuration
    • PLC Configuration Options
    • Editing Wires
  • Editing a PLC
  • Exercise 12: Adding a PLC

Lesson 13: Automated Programmable Logic Control

  • How are PLCs Automated?
  • PLC Mark, Part
    • Manufacturer Data
  • IO Manager
  • Exercise 13: Automated Programmable Logic Control

Lesson 14: Connectors

  • Connectors
  • Insert Connector
  • Connector Insertion
  • Exercise 14: Connectors

Lesson 15: 2D Cabinet Layouts

  • What are 2D Cabinet Layouts?
    • Creating a 2D Layout
    • Inserting Ducts and Rails
    • Inserting Components
    • Wire Cabling Order
    • Optimize Wire Cabling Order
  • Exercise 15: 2D Cabinet Layouts

Lesson 16: Design Rule Checks

  • What are Design Rule Checks?
  • Unconnected Pins
  • Equipotential Conflicts
  • Max. Terminal Wires
  • Duplicated Parent Symbols
  • Child Symbols without Parent
  • Empty Terminal Strip
  • Duplicated Terminals
  • Exercise 16: Design Rule Checks

Lesson 17: Reports

  • What are Reports?
    • Bill Of Materials Grouped by Manufacturer
    • List of Wires by Line Style
    • List of Cables Grouped by Reference
    • Drawings List
  • Report Templates
  • Report Columns
  • Column Formula
  • SQL Query Column Variable
  • Sort and Break
  • Schematic Report Tables
  • Exercise 17: Reports

Lesson 18: Simple Reports

  • What are Views?
  • Stages in the Process
  • Exercise 18: Simple Reports

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