SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic
- Exercise #06
This exercise learns you to manage the equipotential numbering and to
wire the terminal strips. It is based on the electrical project you made
in the Exercise #05. If you did
not complete it, you can download the electrical project file and unarchive it in SOLIDWORKS Electrical.
If this is your first time, open the PDF file of the exercise to read
through it. Printing it out is recommended.
Inserting
symbol from the dockable panel
Create a new drawing (05), Signaling.
Draw the wires and place the indicators using the list of components
in the dockable panel.
1. Open the Components
tab in the dockable panel.
2. Open the L3
location.
3. In the H1
contextual menu select the Insert symbol
command.
4. The symbol selector opens, letting you select the
indicator symbol.
Multilingual
text
On drawing 05, place the translatable texts: Motor 1 On and Motor 2
On. This text will be in blue, using the Arial font and a height of 6mm.
Using Multilingual texts
is better than the basic texts. They are stored in the electrical
project database. |
1. The multilingual
text insertion command is available in the Draw
menu.
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Menu: Draw > Multilingual
text |
The dockable panel changes to display the drawing options.
Click the point of insertion for the text in the graphical area
(you can also enter the X and Y coordinates). |
2. Enter the angle of rotation for the text, or give
the orientation graphically in the graphical area.
3. Enter the text in the main language managed in
the electrical project.
The lower part of the dockable panel displays the format
and justification for each text. |
4. To create text across several lines, insert a carriage
return code.
e.g.
Entering this text: Motor 1
\P ON
would give the following result:
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Polarity
origin-destination
Place the polarity origin-destinations between drawing 03 and drawing
04.
First, to avoid complicated navigation in the origin-destination
interface, it is best to go into the drawing that will receive
the Origin arrow before
launching the command. |
1. The origin-destination
command is available in the Schematic
menu.
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Menu: Schematic > Origin
- Destination arrowsl |
2. Confirm the loading of the Origin
and Destination drawings. Use
the navigation icons (Previous drawing, Next drawing or Selector) if necessary,
then create the first origin-destination.
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Origin - Destination
arrows > Single insertion |
3. Click the end of the wire on the left-hand drawing
(Outgoing arrow > Origin).
4. Click the end of the wire on the right-hand drawing
(Incoming arrow > Destination).
Equipotential
numbering
Execute a wire numbering operation.
1. As this is the first numbering, use the Number new wires command
in the Process menu.
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Menu: Process > Number
new wires |
Modify the wires upstream of F1 (N.R.S.T) on drawing 03 in column 1.
1. Open drawing 03 and zoom in on the wires upstream
of the fuse disconnector in column 1.
2. In the wire contextual menu, select the Edit wire mark command
and modify the number. This operation can be carried out with four conductors
selected.
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Contextual menu of wire: Edit
wire mark |
Modify the numbering formula of the 48VDC wire, including the number
of the drawing.
1. Open the wire styles configuration
tab.
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Menu: Electrical
project > Configurations > Wire styles...
Dockable panel > Contextual menu of electrical project: Configurations > Wire styles... |
2. Select wire =48V
and click on the Properties icon.
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Wire style management > Properties |
3. Click on the box corresponding to the equipotential
numbering formula.
4. In the Formula
management, double-click on line File
mark/Equipotential counter.
Execute another numbering operation to update drawings, but without
losing your manual numbering.
1. To update the equipotential numbers in the drawings,
select the Renumber
wires command in the Process
menu.
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Menu: Process > Renumber
wires |
2. In the wire renumbering dialog box, select the
Recalculate the wire numbers option
without checking the Recalculate manual
numbers box.
Manage the text position
1. Use the Align
texts command to align the texts on an axe.
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Menu: Schematic > Align
texts |
2. Select the texts you want to align.
3. Draw a perpendicular axe to the wires and select
the side corresponding to the text justification.
The Align texts
command also allows to move the texts along the wire. |
4. Use the Show /
Hide wire marks command to display or to hide the texts.
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Menu: Schematic > Show
texts > Show / Hide wire marks |
5. Select the wire on which you want to show or hide
the text.
Automatic Origin-Destination from equipotential number.
1. Open the drawing 05 and edit the polarity wire
number. The number of the upper wire is 03/5 and the number of the lower
wire is 03/6.
2. To automatically generate the Origin-Destination
arrows, select the Automatic insertion
of the Origin-Destination arrows
command.
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Menu: Schematic > Origin
- Destination arrows/Automatic insertion |
3. In the dialog box, select the Connect
all equipotential with the same mark option.
As the wires have the same number, they are automatically
connected. |
Re-launch the wire numbering to correct the equipotential
numbers of the drawing 05. |
Wiring
and editing terminal strips
In drawing 05, place the terminals and wire them (using the cables
reserved in the line diagram) in the scheme for the W4 cable and in the
terminal strip editor for cables W5 and W6.
1. Open drawing 05.
2. Open the contextual menu for the wire to receive
the cable core and select the Associate
cable cores command.
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Contextual menu of wire: Associate
cable cores |
- Select the W4
core in the list in the upper part of the dialog box.
- Select the wire displayed in the lower
part of the dialog box.
- Click on the Associate
cable cores icon.
This operation can be performed by selecting several conductors
and launching the command afterwards. This allows you to cable
all the selected wires. |
3. To open the terminal
strips editor, select the Terminal
strips command in the Electrical project menu.
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Menu: Electrical project > Terminal strips |
4. Edit terminal strip XBJ1.
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Terminal strip management: Edit |
5. Select the Cable
boxes for terminals 1 and 2 and click on the Associate
cable cores icon.
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Terminal strip editor > Associate
cable cores |
6. In the Associate
cable cores dialog box, allocate the cores for cable W5.
7. Repeat this operation for terminals 3 and 4 on
the W6 cable cores.
In drawing 03, wire the M2 using the terminal strip editor and wire
the M1 in the scheme.
1. Open drawing 03.
2. Cable the motors as required.
3. To cable in the scheme, select all the conductors
in the power wire and select the Associate
cable cores command in the contextual menu for the wire. If you
use a multiple selection of conductors, keep a close eye on the order
you select them.
Generate the terminal strip drawings into a folder entitled Terminal
strips.
1. In the right side of the dialog box, select all
the terminal strips and click the Destination
folder button to define the folder in which the drawings will be
generated.
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Terminal strips management
> Destination folders |
2. Click the New
folder command and create the "Terminal strips" folder.
3. In the Terminal
strips management, click the Generate
drawings button to launch the drawing generation.
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Terminal strips management
> Generate drawings |