Electrical Diagrams in Solidworks
Electrical Diagrams in Solidworks
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Has anyone done electrical diagrams in Solidworks or know of any threads discussing this? Right now I've started the diagram on a Drawing file and using blocks to move and copy. Creating some of the blocks in a Part file. This is cumbersome. The company is using version 2001+. Any Ideas or thoughts would be helpful.
Thanks,
Nate
Thanks,
Nate






RE: Electrical Diagrams in Solidworks
RE: Electrical Diagrams in Solidworks
RE: Electrical Diagrams in Solidworks
Maybe you can talk to SW about this or search there website regarding information about this.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
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Thanks both of you for the ideas.
Nate
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Jason Capriotti
ThyssenKrupp Elevator
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This isn't an option at the present time. They've had a real slow rebuild since 9-11. Now my real job, we're at 2004 SP2.1. I'm waiting for more reviews on SP3 before loading.
Ctopher,
Great question. I'm probably re-inventing the wheel!
RE: Electrical Diagrams in Solidworks
"Freestanding" schematics are still purely Cadkey. While I would surely like to see Solidworks improve the 2D tools to the point we could use it as our only tool we seem to have become comfortable with this dual tool approach.
I haven't been able to force myself to devote enough time to get comfortable with Visio.
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Remember...
"If you don't use your head,
your going to have to use your feet."
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Don't get me wrong, visio has some nice features for the advanced Microsoft office crowd, but for those of us doing serious CAD, it's pretty flimsy.
My current setup is Solidworks 2004 for 3d; AutoCad 2004 for all 2D (especially for anything with wires and circuitry); and Adobe Illustrator for anything that needs to look pretty. I would consider Visio to the the slightly disabled child of AutoCad and Illustrator.
I hope this is helpful, and that Mr. Gates doesn't send some goons out to deal with my insubordination.
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Like I implied before, Solidworks is the only software at my disposal at this facility.
Cadkey is one of my favorites. Did a lot of tubes for turbine engines with it and fixture design, but it and Autocad won't do me any good here.
Visio I use for outlining my manufacturing processes on more complicated assemblies, some of the management can interpret this easier, but the line jumping can be a pain if you're in a hurry.
RE: Electrical Diagrams in Solidworks
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http://www.solidworks.com/pages/news/viewrelease.html?prid=4
http://www.tenlinks.com/CAD/PRODUCTS/electrical.htm
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
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However, they are about 8 meg each so they may be difficult to email. Perhaps someone out there has a website they could be uploaded to?
Ray Havermahl
Independent Engineering Labs
www.ielinc.com
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Nate
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RE: Electrical Diagrams in Solidworks
I zipped the files but I don't see your email address's in your profiles.
Ray Havermahl
Independent Engineering Labs
www.ielinc.com
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TROUT_FISH_1@YAHOO.COM
Nathan
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Chris
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I didn't notice how my email address came out. The underlined email address shows blank spaces but are really underscores( TROUT_FISH_1 ). I'll also get my email in my profile.
Thanks
Nathan
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I have tried a couple of different ways to contact you, including the address in your profile, but have been unsuccessful.
Send me an email using the address in my profile, and I will reply to you with the files attached.
Ray Havermahl
Independent Engineering Labs
www.ielinc.com
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Did you get my email I sent you on Friday?
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I have a dxf file of blocks of Fluid Power Symbols per USAS Y32.10. If anyone would like a copy they can email at
cfitzpatrick@meggair.com
The block filenames follow the specification, so you'll need to get a copy of that for referencing.
Also, if someone has a copy of electrial schematics in block form, I'll take a copy of that.
Best,
Colin Fitzpatrick
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I can use them. They will work fine in Solidworks. I tried creating some of these in solids and imported them into an assembly. They looked good especialy in the iso view, but the computers at the shop I'm doing the work at were real slow. Some of them are still using NT and 600Mhz. So I deleted the solids and brought the parts into the assemblies as 2D parts. Not as cool looking but gets their files in Solidworks format and will open in a fare amount of time on their computers.
Thanks again,
Nathan
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I would still like elect symbols to paste into SW dwg if anyone has them.
thank you
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http://www.cadresource.com/library/symbols.html
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Ctopher, did you get a chance to check out Ray's files?
Nathan
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No, I emailed him on Friday...no responce
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The file size is about 3.5 meg. It exceeded my allowance on my yahoo email. I can split it and send it to you. Send me your address if you want.
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I did not recieve your email, could you try again? or add your address to your profile and I will contact you.
Sorry, I was sure I sent them to you, but it was someone else from this forum who contacted me.
Ray Havermahl
Independent Engineering Labs
www.ielinc.com
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I added my email and also sent you an email.
thanks
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Ray Havermahl
Independent Engineering Labs
www.ielinc.com