SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D - Exercise 5

In this exercise, you route and segregate the wires.

This exercise builds on the files from Exercise 4. If you have not completed that exercise, download the Exercise 4 electrical project, unzip it to a local drive, then unarchive it.

Routing the Wires

  1. Open the cabinet assembly from Exercise 4 where you defined the routes.
  2. On the SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D tab of the CommandManager, click Route Wires .
  3. In the PropertyManager, under Select route type, click SOLIDWORKS Route, and click .

    The Routing dialog box reports the progress.

  4. To view the wires:
    1. In the Heads-up View toolbar, clear Sketch .
    2. Select all five horizontal and vertical ducts, right-click, and click Hide Components.

    The wires appear at the bottom of the FeatureManager design tree.

Segregating the Wires

Segregation defines the authorization or banning of wire or cable paths in a specific place in the installation. For example, you can ban a power wire from running through a duct.

To segregate the wires:

  1. On the SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D tab of the CommandManager, click Segregation .
    You define the following segregation rules:
    • The control wires (~24 V) run through only the right-hand vertical duct.
    • The power wires (N, L1, L2, L3) run through only the left-hand vertical duct.
  2. In the PropertyManager:
    1. Click .
    2. For Select wire style or cable, click Wire style then Select wire style.
    3. In the dialog box, expand Group: 0, select ~24V, and click Select.

      The selected wire style appears in the PropertyManager list.

    4. Under Exclude, in the graphics area, select the leftmost vertical duct.
    5. Click .
    6. Repeat steps 3b through 3e by selecting Group: 10, both wire styles, and under Exclude, selecting the rightmost vertical duct.
    7. Click .
  3. In the FeatureManager design tree, delete the five wires that you created in the previous section.
  4. On the SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D tab of the CommandManager, click Route Wires , then click .

    The segregation rules exclude the wire styles from the selected ducts.