SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic
- Exercise #03
This exercise allows you to learn how to manage the electrical project
locations and to design the line diagram of an electrical installation.
It is based on the electrical project you made in the Exercise
#02. If you did not complete it, you can download the electrical
project file and unarchive
it in SOLIDWORKS Electrical.
To do this exercise you need to download the PDF file of the exercise.
Printing it out is recommended.
Managing Locations
Edit the existing L1 location to complete it.
1. Open the L1
location properties.
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Dockable panel > Components tab > Contextual menu
of location: Properties |
2. Enter TGBT
as the description of the L1 location.
Creating the other electrical project locations
Add the following locations:
L2:
Motor room
L3:
Control panel
BJ:
Junction box |
1. Open the Location
management.
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Menu: Electrical
project > Locations |
2. Click on the New
location icon.
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Location
management: New location |
3. Enter L2
in the location properties dialog box and enter the description Motor room.
4. Repeat the operation for the locations L3
and BJ. The BJ
mark must be entered in Manual
mode.
Wiring line
diagram
Using the previously downloaded PDF document
(Appendix 3a) create the wiring line diagram on the line diagram drawing,
following the instructions below.
1. Open the Drawing 02
- Wiring line diagram by double-click on it.
Insert symbol
Use the Insert
symbol command to insert motors M1
and M2 without drawing
the location outline. This will be inserted later. |
2. Click on the Insert symbol
icon in the Line diagram menu.
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Menu: Line diagram >
Insert symbol |
3. SOLIDWORKS Electrical
remembers the last symbol inserted. When a symbol insertion command is
executed the first time, the library may open directly. If not, click
on the Other symbol button in
the dockable panel.
4. Click on the Classification
tab in the library. Select the Motors
class. In the right-hand section, select the corresponding symbol.
5. Click on Select
to validate. You can also double-click the symbol thumbnail.
6. The symbol is attached to the cursor. Simply click
on its point of insertion in the graphical area. Ensure that the Snap lock is enabled when you insert
the symbol.
7. The mark M1
is suggested in the properties dialog box, as it is the first symbol inserted
in the Motor class.
8. You must change the location
allocated to the symbol. Click the [...]
button on the +L1-TGBT cell.
9. In the Locations dialog box, select L2-motor
room.
10. Validate the properties of the symbol.
11. Do the same for the motor M2.
Note that the mark shows the
location mark. The location of the component is different from
the location of the drawing. |
Location outline
Place the L3-Control panel
location outline, then insert the two H1
and H2 indicators via
the side panel.
(Note the impact on the marking.) |
1. Select the Location
outline command in the Line diagram
menu.
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Menu: Line diagram >
Location outline |
Note that the Location outline
command contains options (the arrow displayed in the icon). If
you click on the upper part of the icon, you will trigger the
command without using the options. If you click on the lower part
of the icon, the options will be displayed. |
2. For a rectangular location outline, click the first
point in the graphical area, then the second point in the diagonal of
the rectangle.
3. For a polyline outline, click the first point on
the outline, then a second point... To finish, you must close the outline.
Palette of symbols
Insert the indicators by using the symbol palette. |
1. Open the Symbols
tab in the dockable
panel.
2. Open the Find
group. Enter Indicator in the
search field and click Find.
3. Drag the symbol to the graphical area or double-click
to insert it. Unlike motors, indicators are inserted inside a location
outline. SOLIDWORKS Electrical
automatically suggests the location L3-Control
panel in the mark dialog box.
4. Insert the other symbols and location outlines
as they are in the appendix.
Drawing cables
1. Draw the cables using the Draw
cable in the Line diagram
menu.
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Menu: Line diagram >
Draw cable |
2. Click a first point on the symbol outline. A green
point indicates the connection.
3. Click the second point on the second symbol outline.
In the Command dockable
panel, you can select the line/cable type to distinguish the cable
type. |
Reserving cables
You must use 4G-type cables to wire the M1
and M2 motors.
Use a cable with at least 7 cores to connect the XA2
terminal strip to the indicators. |
1. Open the contextual menu for the wire (right-click
on the wire) and select the Reserve
cables and cores command.
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Contextual menu of line diagram cable: Reserve
cables and cores |
2. Click on the New
cable icon in the cable reservation dialog box.
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Cables and cores reservation
> New cable |
3. In the cable reference search dialog box, use the
Filters tab and enter the filters
for the Family and the Number
of conductors.
4. The new cable appears in the list. Check the box
for the cable.
The mark and reference of the cable now appear on the line
diagram drawing. You can use the Show/Hide
cable text in the contextual menu of a cable to display
or not the text. |
Cable list
1. Click on the Reports
icon in the Electrical
project menu.
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Menu: Electrical
project > Reports |
2. Select the List
of the cables report.
The right side of the Report
management dialog box displays in real-time all the manipulations
you make in the electrical project. |