SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic
- Exercise #12
This exercise allows you to create a new title block from an existing
title block. This new title block must be edited to change its properties
and its graphics.
If this is your first time, open the PDF file of the exercise to read
through it. Printing it out is recommended.
Creating
a new title block
Create a new title block named Training
based on the "A3 format - 10 columns
- Titles in English" title block.
1. Open the Title
block management
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Menu: Library > Title
block management |
2. Select the title block TR_FDP_BASEA3CA_EN
in the Title block management
(ISO 216 - A3 - English)
3. Use the Copy
and Paste commands to make a copy
of the title block.
4. Select the new title block and click on the Properties
icon to change its name.
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Title block management: Properties |
Editing
the title block
Edit the newly created title block.
1. Select the Training
title block and click on the Open icon.
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Title block management: Open |
Use a scale factor of 0.707 to change to A4 format.
2. To change the scale, use the Scale
command in the Draw menu. The
base point must be at coordinates (0,0).
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Menu:
Modify > Scale |
Delete all the attributes in the title block apart from the revision
table. This new title block should allow the propagation of the following
data:
Customer
name
Project contract number
Description - line 1 of the electrical
project
Translatable data #4 of the electrical
project
Book mark
Book description
Drawn by
Date
Description of the location of the
drawing |
3. To insert the attributes, the best way is to use
the Insert attribute command of
the Edit title block menu.
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Menu:
Edit title block > Insert attribute |
You can also use the command Replace
attribute in the contextual menu of an attribute. |
4. Select in the list the attributes you want to insert.
5. The attribute inserted in the title block has a
contextual menu, where you will find the Properties
command allowing you to modify the style such as the font, the size, the
justification, or the color. This is also available in the dockable panel
(Properties tab).
Ensure that the description of the location is always in English, whatever
language the electrical project may be in.
6. Do not change the language of an attribute that
propagates items with translatable data. Simply replace the characters
L1 with the language code, e.g.
EN for English.
The location description data is associated with attribute
#FOLIO_LOC_TZ_0_L1
To keep the data in English if the electrical project language
is changed, just modify the attribute as follows: #FOLIO_LOC_TZ_0_EN |
Modify the graphics of the columns to obtain 8 columns across the width
of the title block. Place the attributes propagating the number of the
column.
Title
block properties
Update the title block properties so it is changed from A3 to A4 format.
1. In the Title block
management, select the Training
title block and click on the Properties
icon.
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Title block management: Properties |
If you did not close the title block file, you can use the
Properties tab of the
Dockable panel. |
2. Enter the properties as shown below.
Checking title block
Create a new electrical project that will use this title block. Enter
the required information in the different levels of the electrical project
and create a simple scheme using the cross references. Ensure that it
complies with Appendix 12.