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Test Drive the Future of SOLIDWORKS Electrical Systems Design & SOLIDWORKS PCB

Tuesday, June 26th, 2018

Are you ready to ‘test-drive’ the future of electrical systems design & PCB?

With SOLIDWORKS Electrical, we use a purpose-built electrical schematics tool to drive a real-deal SQL database. In turn, it automates our workflow and completely automates report creation. We know it’s not enough to read about or see it in a video – you want to see it for yourself! We have an event for you to come!

In addition, you can also join us to learn how to amp up your Printed Circuit Boards designs by driving mechanical constraints earlier in the process, providing real-time collaboration of electromechanical changes and automated engineering change orders while compiling documentation to support the project.

Come and get your hands on it, verify that it’ll do what you need it to do for your business at an Electrical and/or PCB Hands-on Test Drive near you.

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Test Drive

Learn how to simplify your life with SOLIDWORKS Electrical real-time multi-user 2D and 3D design, collaboration, and creation of all your manufacturing documents. In addition, you can look forward to:

Purpose-built, database-driven electrical schematic tool
Manage complex schematic designs with ease, across multiple users
Leverage single line schematics into multiline power and control and PLC schematics, with automatic wire numbering and component tagging
Reuse existing designs efficiently, and intelligently
Have SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD reference your schematic to create all your realistic wires, cables, and harnesses
Use the automatic report creation to produce all your electrical manufacturing documents – Bills of Material, wire/cable lists (with actual lengths), from/to lists, wire tags, and more!

PCB Hands-on Test Drive

Understand how to design printed circuit boards within a Unified environment for schematic, pcb and electromechanical integration
Design schematics by using built-in Symbol Wizard and adding Supplier Links to allow the procurement of components to be streamlined
Utilize the Automated Engineering Change Order to update all schematic information to the PCB
Finalize the pcb design by placing Components, Routing traces, and creating the Fabrication and Assembly outputs for documentation
Ensure the mechanical constraints are met by mating the printed circuit board to an enclosure and making modifications in SOLIDWORKS that are synchronized with the Electrical design.

We look forward to seeing you there. Find a location near you:

Tags: electrical, events, pcb, SOLIDWORKS
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Top New Features of SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2017

Tuesday, January 31st, 2017

SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2017 is here and we are super excited about some of the new features and enhancements it provides. Although SOLIDWORKS Electrical is still a relatively young product to SOLIDWORKS; it’s users have been actively putting it through its paces and making suggestions to make it even better. This year we not only see some great enhancements, we got some great new capabilities.

1. 3D Layout – Use existing assembly

You can now use an existing SOLIDWORKS Assembly to insert your electrical components to route your wires, cables, and harnesses. They have also renamed the command, it’s still under the process tab but it’s now called “SOLIDWORKS Assembly”. You can still have electrical create a new assembly or select an existing assembly from your local drive, network or Enterprise PDM.

2. Add data file shortcuts

When adding documents to your projects, such as a PDF, you can now link to the document. This is awesome because it allows you to store your reference material where you traditionally keep it instead of making copies within the project.