Solidworks Electrical Download Library
Terry Chavarin
Accelerate your electrical schematic designs with this complete library of IEC and ANSI standard DWG symbols. Get the full library (a $200 value) for a limited time only at no cost to you. Take advantage of the complete SOLIDWORKS Electrical symbol libraries. These libraries contain industry standard symbols for every industry allowing for quick schematic creation for electrical design professionals.
Lets you set library filters. Check on any of the listed libraries to make all elements contained within the library (for example, the IEC standard symbols in the case of IEC) available to you during electrical project design.
The recently launched SolidWorks Electrical Portal gives you access to variety of rich electrical resources that you can use in your design. Nobody wants millions of parts sitting around in the database when you only need a few thousand. Users can access the portal and add what they need to their existing library.
There are workarounds for many of these tasks. But I fear there is no desire from the official library team to add symbols for a task that is better handled in other software. EPLAN is the king here (similar to Altium in the field of PCB design) but there are cheaper options available. One such option is DesignSpark Electrical by RS. But there are also open source alternatives like (Disclaimer: I have not personally used any of these tools.)
I have no experience with any such programs. A long time ago when I was using a DOS version of some PCB design program, one of my brothers told me electrical wiring diagrams for cabinets were made with autocad, with some special libraries and extensions.
Just looking for something that is a bit automated to create 2d electrical schematics in Rhino. I use Rhino for mechanical design, the machines in these designs are some what complicated and use motors, pneumatics, switches, ect.
SOLIDWORKS produced an updated KOP from last year with smarter components containing electrical information. We will produce a new KOP for the upcoming season. There are additional components for FRC and FLL. All KOP models can be inserted directly into SOLIDWORKS from the Design Library by linking to your folder with Add File Location command.
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This chapter shows how to add Routing to Solid Works and set routing options and explores how to manually create a route by dragging connectors from the electrical routing Design Library to create a harness. A cable harness, also known as a wire harness, cable assembly, wiring assembly or wiring loom, is a string of cables and/or wires that are used to design wiring systems. This method has many advantages over modeling wires and cables individually. It allows Solid Works to make many calculations for the user and greatly reduces errors. The Auto Route Property Manager must be open to perform this procedure. If it is closed, right-click anywhere to the right side of the Command Manager to display a long list of tools.
Each type of model and component needs to be stored in a model file or library. Some of these use a standardized file format, like SPICE, while others use a proprietary format, like the schematic library file, which is used to store schematic symbols or components.
Once you have linked in other domain models and added parameters, the symbol becomes a component. Many designers continue to refer to it as a symbol when they see it on the schematic because that's what they see but attached to that symbol are the other domain models and parametric details that define it as a component. This document uses the term symbol to describe the graphical objects and pins that are placed in the schematic library editor. In all other situations, it is referred to as the component.
The symbol is created in the schematic library editor. As soon as you add a link in models and add parameters, it becomes a component. The component detail can be added in the schematic library editor, or if you use a DbLink or DbLib type library, the detail can be extracted from a database and added to the symbol during placement on the schematic (more on these later). Alternatively, the detail can be added after the symbol has been placed on the schematic sheet.
The symbol is created in the schematic library editor. It is created by placing graphical objects to build the required shape then the pins are added. It is the pins that bring electrical intelligence to the component. They are what the software identifies as the electrical connection points and what is mapped to the pads on the PCB footprint.
To support this, the designer needed to be able to create and store the schematic symbols, ready to be placed on the schematic sheet. Details such as the component's value, voltage, wattage, footprint, etc., were often added after the symbol was placed from the symbol library onto the schematic sheet.
Over time, there was a growing desire to be able to separate the component creation process from the product design process. Instead of adding the component detail after the symbol had been placed on the schematic sheet, design teams wanted to fully define the component in the library. Other design domains, such as circuit simulation, were also being developed, and therefore, models for these domains also needed to be supported. As part of creating ready-to-use components, you also need to be able to verify the symbol-to-model mapping, then deliver these components in a single, ready-to-use library file.
To satisfy these requirements, the integrated library (*.IntLib) was developed. The integrated library carries all model kinds in a single file. The source for an integrated library is a library package (*.LibPkg), which is a design project that brings together the source symbols, footprints and simulation models. When the library package project is compiled, the symbol-to-model mapping is verified and the Integrated Library is created. Using an IntLib means that the library becomes something from which you place ready-to-use components, which delivers a good solution for medium to large organizations that want to separate component creation from product design.
A footprint defines (or models) the space required by the component to mount it on the PCB. The footprint model of a component is stored in a PCB library. A footprint may contain pads for connecting to the pins of a device and a physical outline of the package created from track and/or arc segments on the silkscreen (overlay) layer. Device mounting features may also be included. Footprints in the PCB library have no designator or comment. They become components when placed on a PCB sheet where the designators and comments are allocated.
A schematic library is a set of components and its parts are stored on individual sheets. A PCB library contains the component footprints. Each library type has its own editor. Integrated libraries combine schematic libraries with their related models and cannot be edited directly by the library editors.
Alternatively, assuming you are OK with not being able to edit the DC-DC layout in situ (on the PCB), you can just paste the layout into a footprint library, and define where you want input and outputs to be.
In this case, you would edit the library file, and then propagate the changes out with the "Update from PCB libraries". You can also modify the primitives of a component once it has been placed, but changes there will not propagate back to other places you have the component.
The idea is to create a symbol of the subcircuit, design a pcb footprint for it, then stick it in your symbol library. Connections are made with nets, not pins. I've just started doing this in a 10+ page (A4) schematic in order to kludge together a system block diagram. (I don't recommend it for this purpose -- it wasn't very useful to me.)
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