SOLIDWORKS Electrical – TriMech

Symbol Setup and Scaling

Catherine Rapp — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:34:47 +0000

Symbols play a crucial role in representing electrical components and their connections. They enable users to design and document electrical systems effectively. Symbols are organized in categories and have properties to further define associations. SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic makes it easy to get the most out of the symbols using all the information embedded into the symbol properties, symbol setup and scaling.

Join us as TriMech Solutions Consultant, Alaa Hosn, walks through the best practices for setting up symbols and scaling. We will cover tips on how to import and create symbols so that repetitive setup procedures are minimized. You will also want to tune in if you’ve ever had questions about scaling symbols, especially if you’ve had your symbols end up off grid. This webinar will help make sure your schematics symbols stay on track the entire way through your design!

During this Symbol Setup and Scaling webinar, you will learn:

Importing symbols
Creating a symbol “template” to minimize repetitive tasks
Scaling symbols
Getting symbols on grid after scaling

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Mentoring Service

Rod Mackay — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 10:25:22 +0000

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SOLIDWORKS Electrical Mentoring Service

The SOLIDWORKS Electrical Mentoring Service pairs your team with an experienced SOLIDWORKS Electrical expert for advice, solutions, and best practices tailored specifically to your unique engineering requirements.

The mentoring process begins with an introductory meeting where tasks and goals are documented and mentoring sessions are pre-scheduled. A data collection form will follow to gather necessary materials, and there is flexibility to reschedule sessions within the purchased time frame. This structured approach is designed to provide you with a comprehensive and personalized mentoring experience, ensuring that all aspects of your development are addressed and supported.

TriMech Solution

Deploy Your Electrical Software

The unique mentoring service from TriMech is a fully custom service based on your requirements and could include any of the following:

Installation or customization of your SOLIDWORKS Electrical software
Quick-start SOLIDWORKS Electrical Training
Setup of industry-specific template(s) which include libraries of symbols, parts, reports, and configurations.

Service Process

A tailored service that provides the mentoring you need:

Introductory Meeting

Upon the initiation of our collaboration, tasks and goals to be accomplished will be thoroughly documented in conjunction with your assigned engineer during the initial introductory meeting. This meeting serves as a foundational step in aligning our mutual objectives and ensuring a clear understanding of the expectations and deliverables.

In addition to task and goal documentation, the scheduling of mentoring sessions will be established during this introductory meeting. These sessions will be strategically planned within the agreed-upon mentoring time frame that you have purchased. This forward planning ensures that we can effectively utilize our time together and maintain a structured approach to your development and progress.

Data Collection

Following the introductory meeting, we will distribute a data collection form. This form is designed to gather essential materials such as drawing examples, data sets, and any other relevant documents that will be necessary for the execution of the mentoring sessions. The collected data will enable us to tailor our sessions to address your specific needs and objectives, providing a customized and impactful mentoring experience.

Mentoring Sessions

The mentoring sessions will be scheduled and delivered based on your requirements and time frame.

It is important to note that while the mentoring sessions will be pre-scheduled, there is flexibility in rescheduling these sessions, provided it falls within the mentoring time frame that you have purchased. This flexibility ensures that we can accommodate any unforeseen changes in your schedule while still adhering to the agreed-upon time frame, thereby maximizing the effectiveness of our mentoring program.

Typical Mentoring Sessions

Customers typically request the following mentoring services:

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Software Installation

We can help you to install your SOLIDWORKS Electrical Server and Client software. The installation includes several industry-specific templates, symbols, parts, reports, and configurations.

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Quick-start Training

Live interactive training provides a comprehensive overview of how to use SOLIDWORKS Electrical for your schematic design needs – including drawing standards, developing schematics, and using reports.

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Setup & Configuration

Setup of industry-specific template(s) and configuration of your electrical software to meet your standards and requirements.

Get Started with the Service

Overview

Top 10 Traits of a Successful Electrical Deployment

Benefits of the SOLIDWORKS Electrical Mentoring Service

How mentoring from a certified expert can help your business

Reduce manual effort & spend more time engineering

We will show you how to use SOLIDWORKS Electrical software to it's full potential in order to streamline and simplify tedious schematic design tasks; from terminal block to contact cross reference assignments.

Reduce errors & the number of design revisions

Provides you with an optimal process with Design Rule Checks (DRCs), Project Management/Cross Referencing and Reports including Bill of Materials and Wire Lists.

SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2025 Enhancement Highlights

Catherine Rapp — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 23:40:25 +0000

SOLIDWORKS Electrical provides an environment where you can create 2D schematics, automate the reporting of your designs, and connect your 2D drawings to your 3D layouts to get wire lengths. Can it get better than that? The answer is: of course, every year! Enhancements to SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2025 in 2025 provide new ways to work with your data in both 2D and 3D.

Join us as TriMech Elite Applications Engineer, Ray Morrogh as he discusses and demonstrates some highlights of what has been enhanced in SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic and 3D in the latest release of SOLIDWORKS.

The enhancements to SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematics 2025 include faster ways to import and create content in your libraries and new ways to work with terminals. On the 3D side, cable harnesses have new options when creating drawings. We’ll go over these changes, plus several enhancements deployed in service packs in 2024, during the presentation to show you key functionalities that can simplify your designs and workflow.

During this SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2025 Webinar, you will learn:

New methods of importing library data
How to use distributed terminals
Changes to SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D
Changes to cable management

Leveraging Printed Circuit Boards with SOLIDWORKS Electrical

Catherine Rapp — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 16:22:45 +0000

The goal with any electro-mechanical design team is to be streamlined and connected to ensure changes are communicated properly and designs encompass all aspects of our design. We typically see that electro-mechanical design teams are often disjointed and there is no real link between electrical data and mechanical data.

SOLIDWORKS Electrical combines the best of the 2D and 3D worlds by allowing for best-in-class schematic designs to freely flow down to their 3D representations inside of SOLIDWORKS. This is incredibly useful for laying out schematics and showcasing things like wires or cables, electrical components, and even hydraulic/pneumatics, but what about Printed Circuit Boards? Often, the PCBs are designed in separate software and have no link to either the schematic or the mechanical assembly, leaving room for errors to pop up during design changes. Fortunately, SOLIDWORKS provides some great functionality for interlinking Electrical, Mechanical, and Circuit Board Designers and allows for seamless collaboration.

Join us as TriMech Elite Application Engineer, Sawyer Gara shows how SOLIDWORKS Electrical can improve collaboration across the Electro-Mechanical Design team. We’ll see how to leverage CircuitWorks to import industry-standard PCB files and convert them to usable SOLIDWORKS models. From there, we swap over to SOLIDWORKS Electrical to put both the PCB Design file and the SOLIDWORKS Model in the Electrical Library. There are a couple of different ways to represent a PCB in your Electrical Schematic, so we will be sure to discuss the options as well. Finally, we’ll jump back over to SOLIDWORKS and leverage Electrical 3D to place the PCB in our SOLIDWORKS Assembly to have a true representation of the finished product and improve our design intent.

During this SOLIDWORKS Electrical Printed Circuit Boards Webinar, you will learn:

Converting Circuit Board Designs to SOLIDWORKS Geometry
Linking Board Files to SOLIDWORKS Electrical Library
Representing PCBs in SOLIDWORKS Electrical
Leveraging Schematics in Electrical 3D

Get To Know SOLIDWORKS Electrical

Catherine Rapp — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:55:21 +0000

One of the toughest challenges faced by design teams is ensuring that the electrical and mechanical teams are working as cohesively as possible. Typically, the design tools used are disconnected and offer little to no integration between the electrical schematic and the mechanical assembly. The collaboration is often an afterthought and when done is a painstakingly manual process. Fortunately, SOLIDWORKS Electrical provides a robust toolset for detailing electrical schematics in the 2D world while providing a link to represent components and wires in the 3D world.

Join us as SOLIDWORKS Electrical Expert, Sawyer Gara, leads us through an overview of the SOLIDWORKS Electrical Suite of products. We’ll start off in the 2D Schematic to create a simple circuit all while leveraging the shared parts and symbols library. When utilizing the parts and symbols library, we’ll discuss the major benefits of storing all your information in one place. From there, SOLIDWORKS Electrical can leverage some intelligence for a profound automation effect to generate things like Bills of Materials and Wire Run Lists at the click of a button. Finally, we’ll pop over into SOLIDWORKS CAD to leverage SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D to easily place the correct component in the assembly and automatically route wires to exactly where they need to go.

During this SOLIDWORKS Electrical webinar, you will learn:

Understand the Unified Parts/Symbol Library
Automatically Generate Robust Reports
Link Schematics to SOLIDWORKS CAD
Automatically Route Cables and Wires
Integrate with SOLIDWORKS PDM

Importing Manufacturer Parts into SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic 2D

Catherine Rapp — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:23:17 +0000

Importing a manufacturer parts into SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic was once a tedious process that left a lot of disconnect in the manufacturer part information if it wasn’t set up correctly. SOLIDWORKS Electrical always has great new enhancements with each version of the software, but this time SOLIDWORKS has snuck in an amazing, timesaving feature into Electrical Schematic 2024 SP2.

Join us as TriMech Electrical Specialist, Alaa Hosn discusses the new feature of importing manufacturer parts into SOLIDWORKS Electrical which is covered in the 2024 What’s New guide for SOLIDWORKS Electrical.

We will show the difference in how manufacturer parts were imported previously and the main benefits of the new enhancement. This includes going through the process of importing manufacturer part information using a pre-defined Excel template created in Electrical Schematic 2D. Importing manufacturer parts through the Excel template created will help users assign classifications, circuit and terminal data, and more easily manage properties.

During this SOLIDWORKS Electrical webinar, you will learn:

Pull in information from an Excel sheet created through Electrical Schematic
Classify manufacturer parts when importing
Assign circuit and terminal data upon imports
Easier than ever to import properties of manufacturer parts

PLC & Ladder Logic Diagrams in SOLIDWORKS Electrical

Catherine Rapp — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:59:11 +0000

SOLIDWORKS Electrical is filled with time-saving tools that aid in schematic creation, report generation, and 3D Wire routing. On top of the traditional functionality, SOLIDWORKS Electrical includes a robust feature set to handle Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). Defining PLCs is a breeze thanks to the high-level PLC Management tools and placing them on the schematic can leverage Dynamic Symbols to streamline the schematic development process. One of the trickiest parts of designing PLCs is having to handle the Inputs/Outputs as well as channel addresses. Fortunately, SOLIDWORKS Electrical has efficiency-gaining processes to quell even the most cumbersome tasks.

Join us as TriMech’s SOLIDWORKS Elite Application Engineer, Sawyer Gara, walks through how to utilize SOLIDWORKS Electrical to design and document your PLCS in an Electrical Schematic. We’ll discuss how SOLIDWORKS Electrical manages and tracks PLCs at a high level. Then we take a look at inserting the PLC symbol using both standard symbols and the dynamic symbols available for Electrical Schematic Professional. To take this one step further, SOLIDWORKS Electrical allows us to easily represent different slots of a PLC on different pages all while maintaining the connection to the top-level PLC. Finally, any assigned channel data information can be pushed downstream to connected terminals.

During this SOLIDWORKS Electrical webinar, you will learn:

Managing Simple or Complex PLCS
Inserting Dynamic PLC Symbols
Representing PLCs in Multiple Ways
Pushing Channel Data to Connected Terminals

2D and 3D Electrical Panel Layouts in SOLIDWORKS Electrical

Catherine Rapp — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:57:45 +0000

Thorough electrical design work goes beyond a 2D schematic. Bringing that design into the real world smoothly requires evaluation of the spatial requirements and constraints of the cabinet that houses those components. SOLIDWORKS Electrical provides an environment with flexible design options for creating these electrical panel layouts, and this webinar will go over those options and what they can do to assist in bringing your designs off of paper and into the real world.

Join us as TriMech Solutions Consultant – Applications, Ray Morough will explain how 2D electrical panel layouts are included in every SOLIDWORKS Electrical package, and he will walk through the library requirements, panel creation, ballooning, and reporting. For Electrical Schematic professional users or those interested in learning more about Electrical 3D, we’ll insert components into SOLIDWORKS and show how to quickly create a 2D drawing. Since both of these processes have the same end goal too, we’ll go over some key distinctions why you would use SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D over the 2D cabinet layout.

During this SOLIDWORKS Electrical webinar, you will learn:

Creating 2D electrical panel layouts in SOLIDWORKS Electrical
Creating 3D electrical panel layouts within SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D
How to assess which tool is best for your designs and workflow
Component libraries and what information they can contain

Harness the Power of SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D Cable Fabrication

Catherine Rapp — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:33:11 +0000

One of the biggest benefits of using SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic and Electrical 3D is the ability to get a single cohesive view of my electro-mechanical assembly. As a design team, we can showcase our designs from a 2D schematic perspective as well as a fully modeled and routed 3D assembly. Without SOLIDWORKS Electrical, this can be challenging when working with complex cables with multiple conductors and connectors to keep track of. Fortunately, the SOLIDWORKS Electrical Suite has integrated tools to help manage even the most complex cables.

Join us as TriMech Elite Application Engineer, Sawyer Gara, discusses how we can harness the power of the SOLIDWORKS Electrical suite for cable fabrication. We’ll start off in the 2D side of SOLIDWORKS Electrical to show how easy it is to add new connectors (and even define contacts) and associate them to cables and cable harnesses. From there, we can leverage the collaboration between Electrical Schematic and Electrical 3D to seamlessly integrate those new connectors into the mechanical assembly. Whether we want to manually route each branch or let auto-routing take control, the cables can be precisely placed with SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D. Finally, all those twists and turns the cables take can be flattened back out, represented in a few different ways, and turned into a fully detailed manufacturing drawing. You’ll be shocked at how simple the process really is!

During this SOLIDWORKS Electrical Webinar, you will learn:

Creating Connectors and Assigning Parts
Defining Cables and Harnesses in Electrical Schematic
Routing a Harness in 3D
Flattening Harness for Manufacturing Drawing

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Rod Mackay — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:04:11 +0000

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Free Certification Exams

Free SOLIDWORKS Certification Exams

The SOLIDWORKS Certification exams validate user proficiency and help managers highlight areas for training. Build your team’s skills and professional development to advance their careers and improve productivity. Subscription Service clients can take up to two core exams and two advanced exams per year for every seat of SOLIDWORKS for free to help sharpen their engineering team’s skills in SOLIDWORKS.

Receive one free core Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate (CSWA) or Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional (CSWP), one Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional Advanced (CSWPA) certification and one free specialty exam voucher for every seat of SOLIDWORKS on subscription
Certification Preparation Courses are available with the included SolidProfessor Online Video Library
Prep exams and other resources are available with the included MySolidWorks online resource

Manufacturing Service Voucher ($500 Value)

Advanced Manufacturing Voucher (worth $500) included with Elite Subscription Service*

TriMech Advanced Manufacturing Services (AMS) help engineers to DESIGN, MAKE and FINISH their products. Use a $500 voucher* towards the cost of a manufacturing service for your project.

* Minimum $2,500 USD order required. In-house services only. Contact us for details.

3D Design Service: Our team of experts are dedicated to helping you design your products freely, improve quality, and create new business opportunities for your business. From ensuring a seamless 3D design to product manufacturing process, our team will help you achieve your business goals with 3D Design, 3D Scanning / Reverse Engineering and Design Simulation.
On-demand Manufacturing: We provide Designers and Manufacturers with a variety of custom-tailored 3D printing and CNC machining services, including high-performance prototypes, tooling, molding and manufacturing aids, end-use parts, and low-volume production runs.
Get a Professional Finish: Make your prototypes functional and look realistic with professional finishes from expert model makers. TriMech offers a wide variety of 3D Printing Post-Processing Services to meet even the most demanding applications. Allowing you to reduce your 3D printing cycle time and obtain the most realistic prototype for fit, form and function testing, sales, and marketing.

SOLIDWORKS Training Voucher ($500 Value)

Live In-Person Training Voucher (worth $500) included with Elite Subscription Service*

Looking to maximize the benefits of your SOLIDWORKS software. We have the classes for you to master the fundamentals or get advanced training, at every level. No one beats our team of trainers! Learn from the most qualified experts in the industry and advance your skills in any one of our available courses. Take a training class live online or at one of TriMech’s SOLIDWORKS Authorized Training Centers located throughout the eastern United States, across Canada and the UK. We provide training classes online and in-person for all user levels. Use the $500 voucher included with your subscription towards the cost of a training course from TriMech.

* Included with the SOLIDWORKS Elite Subscription Service during the active subscription term

SOLIDWORKS CAD Basic to Advanced Training Courses
SOLIDWORKS Simulation Training Courses
SOLIDWORKS Communication (Visualize, MBD, Inspection, GD&T) Training Courses
SOLIDWORKS Electrical Training Courses
SOLIDWORKS PDM Training Courses
SOLIDWORKS CAM Training Courses
SOLIDWORKS Automation (DriveWorks) Training Courses
3DEXPERIENCE Training Courses
3D Printing and 3D Scanning Training Courses

Client Care Visit (CCV)

A Client Care Visit is an opportunity for you to benefit from engagement with our Applications Engineers. For our clients currently on subscription, these complimentary visits are our way of saying ‘thank you’ for your business. We want to be respectful of your time, so a typical CCV is usually around one hour.

What do you get from a CCV?

A closer partnership with TriMech.
Escalated technical support cases.
Lessons learned
A post-visit report recapping what we discussed, along with some additional recommendations.

Let Us Come To You

Allow our expert engineers to come and visit you and your team! We can trouble shoot specific technical support issues with your engineers, review a topic, or simply sit down and get to know your business a little better from the technical end of things.

This service is available to both Essential and Elite Subscription clients during the active subscription service term.

Ask an Expert Session

Get your SOLIDWORKS design and manufacturing questions answered through a LIVE online consultation session with a TriMech certified expert.

* A company will get an equivalent number of “Ask an Expert” sessions to the number of SOLIDWORKS Elite seats on Subscription during the active subscription service term.

Discover New Techniques: You may not have had the opportunity to make the most of your existing technology such as a SOLIDWORKS Premium add-in. A live session will give the opportunity to learn new techniques and get the most out of the technology you already have.
Research New Technology: We know that finding the right technology to meet your needs is often time consuming and frustrating. So we want to make it quick and easy for you to research new SOLIDWORKS technology for your business with a live session with an expert.
Improve your Business: Let us show you how the expansive SOLIDWORKS technology solutions from TriMech can help you improve many areas of your business, from electrical design to cloud collaboration.

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Legal Terms and Conditions:

Offer valid until February 28, 2025, in the U.S, Canada and Mexico only.
SOLIDWORKS standalone or SOLIDWORKS Network licenses can be upgraded to a SOLIDWORKS Term license.
50% off list price of applicable SOLIDWORKS license for year 1-3 and 25% off list price for year 4+
You do not have to purchase 3 years upfront to obtain the 50% off deal.
Educational and Research licenses do not qualify for this offer.
Anti-piracy and compliance cases do not qualify for this offer.
Other restrictions may apply. Contact us for more information.

SOLIDWORKS Electrical vs AutoCAD Electrical: Did you know that!?

Sophie Jin — Thu, 30 May 2024 14:20:40 +0000

On the surface, both AutoCAD Electrical and SOLIDWORKS Electrical seemingly offer the exact same electrical schematic design capabilities, but if you dig a little deeper and ask around, you’ll quickly learn there’s a deeper story to uncover. While AutoCAD Electrical has served many industries since its release in 2004, many of the early decisions made in product development that were accepted by customers at release have lost their novelty in the 20 years since. This has left many companies asking the question, “Is there a better way?”

So why should you choose SOLIDWORKS Electrical? Do you find yourself losing sanity fixing broken object links? Do you get blurred vision from combing the project for component & wire cross-reference errors? Do you find yourself forgetting one of the many unguided steps to creating a library component (and having to start all over…)? Are you going gray waiting for searches and library queries to complete? Are you actually making MORE mistakes than if you were just using AutoCAD?

Join us, as TriMech Elite Application Engineer Sawyer Gara, explains why you should replace AutoCAD Electrical with SOLIDWORKS Electrical to create robust schematics, wire diagrams, panel layouts, and general supporting documentation more quickly and easily.

In this SOLIDWORKS Electrical vs AutoCAD Electrical webinar, you will learn:

Manage Projects and Drawings in SOLIDWORKS Electrical
Adopt a comprehensive part and symbol library
Automate your wire numbering and component cross-referencing
Leverage powerful, customizable reports and design rule checks
Utilize truly bidirectional integration with 3D CAD modeling and routing

Panel Assembly Instructions using SOLIDWORKS Electrical & Composer

Catherine Rapp — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:48:01 +0000

One of the biggest benefits that using SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic and SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D brings us is the ability to get a single cohesive view of my electro-mechanical assembly. As a design team, we can showcase our designs from a 2D Schematic perspective as well as a fully modeled and routed 3D Assembly. Doing this is great and ensures that there are no questions and no discrepancies between what we designed and what gets produced. SOLIDWORKS Composer allows us to take this one step further and easily create assets for assembly instructions for the panel.

Join us as TriMech Elite Application Engineer, Sawyer Gara, discusses how to take systems designed inside of SOLIDWORKS Electrical and utilize SOLIDWORKS Composer to generate assembly documentation. We will review complimenting SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic by pairing it with SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D to create true electro-mechanical assemblies. From there, we let SOLIDWORKS Composer take the reigns to generate our assembly steps. Because we are using a connected design ecosystem, SOLIDWORKS Composer can leverage properties from our wires and components to pull information directly to the assembly instructions. The cherry on top will be taking each step of the assembly procedures and turning them into a powerful animation to truly showcase how the system is built. Finally, we end with some things to keep in mind when flowing between SOLIDWORKS Electrical and SOLIDWORKS Composer to implement the keys to success.

During this SOLIDWORKS Electrical webinar, you will learn:

Review the collaboration of Electrical Schematic and Electrical 3D
Creating Panel Assembly Instruction Documents
Pulling Properties from Electrical Components
Going from static images to amazing animations
Keys to Success for Electrical – PDM BOM Integration

SOLIDWORKS Electrical BOMs in PDM

Catherine Rapp — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:54:51 +0000

Throughout history there have been plenty of great pairings: Peanut Butter and Chocolate, Bow and Arrows, or Shrek and Donkey. These days, there is no better pairing than combining our team’s Electrical and Mechanical information to get a full picture of what is going on. In previous webinars, we’ve discussed utilizing the SOLIDWORKS Electrical – SOLIDWORKS PDM Integration tool to fully include the Electrical Schematic projects within the PDM Vault. Using this tool is a great start to work towards a full Electro-Mechanical Assembly; but did you know we could do more than that?

Join us as TriMech Elite Application Engineer, Sawyer Gara, discusses how a SOLIDWORKS Electrical Bills of Material can be integrated into your current SOLIDWORKS PDM Vault. We will discuss the different options we have when putting the Electrical BOMs inside of the PDM Vault. This enables us to create advanced Electro-Mechanical Bills of Materials Integrating the Electrical BOMs into PDM makes use of Virtual Components so we will briefly touch on that as well. After this webinar, you will be left with some Keys to Success to go forward and integrate Electrical BOMs inside of SOLIDWORKS PDM. We will conclude with a live Q&A with our SOLIDWORKS Electrical and PDM Technical Expert.

In this webinar, you will learn:

Review of the SOLIDWORKS Electrical-PDM Connector
Different BOM Options
SOLIDWORKS PDM Virtual Documents
Keys to Success for Electrical – PDM BOM Integration

SOLIDWORKS Premium – Electrical Routing

Catherine Rapp — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 13:58:00 +0000

Learn about the SOLIDWORKS Electrical Routing add-on software included with every seat of SOLIDWORKS Premium

What’s New in SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2024

Ray Morrogh — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:34:25 +0000

With the new year comes a new release of SOLIDWORKS, packed with all new enhancements to speed up your work, simplify your tasks, and increase your capabilities. In this webinar, we’ll go through all of the major enhancements to SOLIDWORKS Electrical. Whether you’re using the 2D Schematic tool or connecting your designs to 3D, we’ll be covering the latest and greatest in both of these modules.

Ray Morrogh, a TriMech Solutions Consultant, covers the enhancements this year that focused on an improved user experience in many ways, including UX updates, auto ballooning 2D cabinets, and filters in electrical 3D. The way changes can be implemented has also been improved with enhancements like removing manufacturer part data when deleting or replacing a component, changing the lengths of multiple rails and ducts simultaneously, and allowing for previews of changes when aligning 3D components

During this SOLIDWORKS Electrical On-Demand Webinar, you will learn:

Auto ballooning in 2D cabinets
Shortening lists using ranges
UI/UX improvements
Changes to Electrical 3D