Training Course Overview
This course is designed for electro-mechanical designers that are familiar with SOLIDWORKS, and are new to SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D. It sets you up for success by gaining familiarity with hybrid routing methodologies.
Content consists of a selection of relevant topics from the SOLIDWORKS Electrical Routing course, in combination with the SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D course. By attending this course you will gain confidence in understanding tools and techniques available within the platform.
Focusing on feature topics provides engineers with a clear understanding of the skills, tools, and concepts available which can then be applied to a range of industry design challenges while providing insight into how SOLIDWORKS Electrical can be employed to fit current in-house development practices.
Course Preview
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Requirements & Benefits
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"Easy to add and locate electrical components in 3D. The instructor was knowledgeable about SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D and electrical engineering."
— Henry Xu, GE Water
"The instructor was very knowledgeable about the product and the class size was small this helped with the extra support when required."
— Dash Cheema, GE Water
"The course showed the process right from scratch to a completed project. The instructor was very knowledgeable and helpful providing details on how all the component parts are linked together."
— Patrick Windebank, Spantech
SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D and Electrical Routing Lessons
The following lessons are included in the course
Lesson 1: Assembly Creation
- What are assemblies?
- Stages in the process
- Unarchiving a project
- Opening an existing project in SOLIDWORKS
- The electrical project documents
- SOLIDWORKS Assembly
- Opening a SOLIDWORKS file from the browser
- Exercise: Assembly creation
Lesson 2: Component Intelligence
- What is a component?
- Component intelligence
- The electrical component wizard
- Stages in the process
- Define faces
- Create mate reference
- Create connection points
- Creating cable connection points
- Exercise: Component intelligence
Lesson 3: Insert Components
- Insert components
- Stages in the process
- Align components
- Inserting terminals
- Exercise: Insert components
Lesson 4: Routing Wires
- Routing wires
- Stages in the process
- Routing path
- Sketch name
- Route wires
- 3DSketch route
- Routing parameters
- Wire sketches
- SOLIDWORKS route
- Wire segregation
- Exercise: Routing wires
Lesson 5: Basic Electrical Routing
- Basic electrical routing
- Adding routing components
- Routes
- Starting by drag and drop connector
- Auto route
- Stub lines
- Electrical attributes
- Edit wires
- Assigning pins manually
- Reshaping the spline
- While editing the route
- Save to external file
- Exercise: Basic electrical routing
Lesson 6: Routing Cables
- Routing cables
- Stages in the process
- Creating cable connection points
- Route cables
- Set origin destination of cables by location
- Exercise: Routing cables
Lesson 7: Routing with Clips
- Routing with clips
- Routing through existing clips
- Drag and drop connector
- Adding clips while auto routing
- Rotating route components
- Editing a route
- Working with clips
- Rotating a clip
- Routing through a clip
- Unhooking from a clip
- Virtual clips
- Splitting a route
- JPoint name
- Adding bends
- Adding a splice
- Multiple routes though a clip
- Route stacking
- Isolate options
- Exercise: Editing electrical routes
- Exercise: Adding splices
Lesson 8: Electrical Drawings
- Route flattening and detailing
- Tables
- Connectors
- Annotation flattening
- Flatten route
- Flatten options
- Drawing details
- Wire lengths
- Edit flattened route - annotation
- Manufacture flattening
- Edit flattened route - manufacture
- Exercise: Electrical drawings
Lesson 9: Flex Cables
- Flex cables
- Flex cable routes
- Flex cable connectors
- Flex cable
- Flattening and drawings
- Flex cable Cpoints
- Flex cable auto routing
- Flexible
- Edit by dragging
- Manual sketching
- Adding flex cables
- Using flex cables with clips
- Ribbon manipulator points
- Exercise: Creating flex cables
Demo: Harness Routing
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