SOLIDWORKS Electrical – Schematic

The goal of this course is 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. This course is focused on 2D Schematic Design.

Topics

Introduction

About This Course

Windows® 7

Use of Color

Lesson 1: Project Templates

• SOLIDWORKS Electrical
• Starting SOLIDWORKS Electrical
• What are Projects?
• Project Templates
• Project Configurations
• How is a Project Structured?
• Stages in the Process

Lesson 2: Modifying Project Templates

• What are Environments?
• Stages in the Process
• Draw Multiple Wires

Lesson 3: Drawing Types

• What are Drawing Types?.
• Stages in the Process
• Existing and Archived Projects
• Line Diagram Symbols
• Adding Cables
• Stages in the Process
• Symbols Panel
• Schematic Symbols
• Symbol Properties

Lesson 4: Symbols and Components

• What is a component?
• Stages in the Process
• Symbol Component Association

Lesson 5: Manufacturers Parts

• What are Manufacturers Parts?
• Stages in the Process.
• Finding Manufacturer Parts

Lesson 6: Wires and Equipotentials

• Equipotentials and Wires
• Stages in the Process
• Wire Style Manager
• Replacing Wires
• Equipotential Numbering Results
• Wire Numbering Results.
• Using Nodal Indicators

Lesson 7: Cabling

• What is Cabling?
• Stages in the Process
• Cables
• Detailed Cabling
• Terminal Strip
• Pin to Pin Connections

Lesson 7: Symbol Creation Comparing Complex Features

• Symbols and Standards
• Stages in the Process
• Symbols Manager
• Symbol Properties
• Circuits, Terminals, Types
• Multiple Attribute .
• Splitting Attribute Data
• Add to Library
• Copy, Paste Symbol

Lesson 8: Macros

• What are Macros?
• Stages in the Process
• Creating and Adding Macros

Lesson 9: Macros

• Creating macros
• Using macros

Lesson 10: Cross Referencing

• What is Cross Referencing?
• Stages in the Process

Lesson 11: Managing Origin-Destination Arrows

• What are Origin-Destination Arrows?
• Stages in the Process
• Origin-Destination Arrows

Lesson 12: What are Origin-Destination Arrows?

• What is a PLC?
• Stages in the Process
• Adding a New Scheme
• Adding a PLC Mark
• Inserting a PLC
• Editing a PLC

Lesson 14: 

• Connectors
• Insert Connector
• Connector Insertion.

Lesson 15: 2D Cabinet Layouts

• What are 2D Cabinet Layouts?
• Stages in the Process

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

Lesson 17: Reports

• What are Reports?
• Report Templates
• Report Columns
• Column Formula
• SQL Query Column Variable
• Sort and Break