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SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2D Training

Prerequisites: Completed SOLIDWORKS Essentials training, Electrical Engineering Experience

 

Description: 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.

 

The topics covered on this course are:

  

 

Lesson 1: Projects

  • SOLIDWORKS Electrical

  • Starting SOLIDWORKS Electrical

  • What are Projects?

  • Creating a New Project

  • Project Overview

  • Locations

  • Zooming and Scrolling

 

 

Lesson 2: Single Line Diagrams

  • What is a Single Line Diagram?

  • Existing and Archived Projects

  • Line Diagram Symbols

  • Adding Cables

  • Drawing Tools

 

Lesson 3: Cabling

  • What is Detailed Cabling?

  • Cables

  • Detailed Cabling

  • Adding Manufacturer Parts

  • Terminal Strip

  • Pin to Pin Connections

  • Copy and Paste

 

  

Lesson 4: Creating Schematics

  • What is a Schematic?

  • Draw Multiple Wires

  • Schematic Symbols

  • Symbol Properties

  • Creating New Symbols

 

  

Lesson 5: Cross Referencing the Single Line Diagram

  • Adding Cross References to the Single Line Diagram

  • Cross Referencing Drawings

  • Inserting Multiple Terminals

  • Location Outlines

 

  

Lesson 6: Control Drawings

  • What are Control Drawings?

  • Stages in the Process

  • Drawing Single Wires

  • The Cross Reference List

  • Using Functions

  • Inserting Single Terminals

  • Function Outlines

  • Updating the Catalog

 

  

Lesson 7: Managing Origin-Destination Arrows

  • What are Origin-Destination Arrows?

  • Replacing Wires

  • Origin-Destination Arrows

 

  

Lesson 8: Programmable Logic Controllers

  • What is a PLC?

  • Stages in the Process

  • Adding a New Scheme

  • Adding a PLC Mark

  • Inserting a PLC

  • Editing a PLC

 

  

Lesson 9: Macros

  • What are Macros?

  • Creating and Adding Macros

 

  

Lesson 10: Editing the PLC Drawing

  • Stages in the Process

  • Associate Cable Cores

  • Adding a Part Manually

  • Assigning a Part

  • Wire Style Manager

  • Numbering Wires

  • Assigning Parts to Other Objects

 

  

Lesson 11: Reports

  • What are Reports?

  • Report Manager

  • Drawing Terminal Strips

 

 

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