Welcome back to another one of my blogs! If you are familiar with the capabilities of SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional and SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D, you know that if you need wire lengths in your wire length report, they will be automatically populated after the wires are routed in 3D. The big question is, what if you don’t have access to Electrical 3D? I’m going to cover that for you today in this article. I have a project with a lot of information in it in the form of line diagrams and schematics, but something is missing.

If I open up the first page of the List of wires report, you can see some of the columns are blank in this report, but the one I’m concerned with is the Length column since it shows 0 inches all the way down. Document list List of wires report with no length When you use purely the schematic portion of Electrical, the length information isn’t generated automatically because the drawings aren’t drawn to scale. As I mentioned earlier in this article, if I routed this in 3D, the lengths would populate automatically. However, I also have the ability to manually enter in lengths. By looking at the top of this report, I can see that K1: A1 is one of the first components. K1: A1 wire length I’ll switch over to the Components tab and expand the K1 component. Looking through the symbols, the bottom one tells me that it refers to A1, and right clicking and selecting Go To opens up the sheet and takes me to the area of the drawing of the symbol.

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Relay coil symbol Go to the component K1 on the schematic Let’s put in a length of the wire on the left of the symbol. I have 2 ways to do this. The first way is to right click on the wire, select wire properties, and select the wire number. This takes you into the wire properties and there is a length field right here.

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Type whatever number you’d like the wire to length to be and hit okay. Accessing the wire properties Changing the length of the wire properties The second way is to use the Properties pane to the right of the screen. With the wire selected, I get a tab that has the wire properties in it.

To edit it, click the pencil. Wire properties on the right side Change the length and hit the green check to apply the changes. Hit the red x to get out of making changes.

Changing the length in the property pane Once the wire length has been updated, right click on the report on the Documents Tab and select Update report drawings. The length of that wire has been updated! Updated wire length in the report As you can see, this manual method can be helpful for a few wires, but if you need wires for the entire project, routing them in 3D would be the way to go. I really hope you enjoyed this article on manually adding wire lengths to your project. For more information, check out our or contact us at today.

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Users can define pin to pin connections without necessarily drawing them out in a schematic drawing, by doing so on line diagrams by adding cables. In the video tutorial above, we’ve drawn a couple of symbols with a motor that we’ve associated with a manufacturer part and a contactor relay that we’ve associated with a manufacturer part, in a blank diagram. When we select the “Draw cable” button on the diagram tab, we can choose a cable style to use and simply draw a line connecting one symbol to the other. For the purposes of high level line diagrams, this might be good enough, but users have the ability to specify point to point connections of the cable directly from here. To do this, we can double click on the cable and this brings up the detailed cabling window. We can see the contacts available for each component on the left and right hand sides, which were included when we specified the manufacturer part number for each component. All that is missing, is the definition of what cable to use to connect them.

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Users can either add a cable to the project from the SolidWorks Electrical database by clicking “Add a cable” or in case a user has already reserved a cable to be added, we can click the “Cores reservation” button to bring up a list of cables that are already in the project. In the tutorial video above, we can see a couple of cables that have already been used elsewhere, and one cable that was added that is not being used. When we expand it, there are checkboxes next to the entire cable, as well as the individual conductors within it. It is not very common, but it is possible to specify to use one or more conductors of the cable between these components and then specify the other conductors in the cable to be used between different components. For now, we’ll just click the “New Cable” button to add a new cable to use in this project.

We’ll filter for cables with four conductors and click the green plus to add the one we’re looking for. We’ll click Select, and the cable is now available to use.

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We’ll then click the checkbox next to the entire cable to use it, and click OK. When we do, the manager updates and shows the cable along with its conductors, so the next step is to associate the wires on each end of the cable with the appropriate pins from the motor and contactor. To do this, we can click on each cell for the cable to highlight it, click on the corresponding pin on the component and click “Connect.” When we do, we can see the mark and pin is added in the origin field. We can repeat this process for each of the other pins.

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On the other side, if the conductors on the cable correspond to the same order the pins are shown on the component, we can control-select or shift-select the conductors on the cable and component and click Connect, to connect them all at once. So this is another method of defining pin to pin connections of cables without drawing everything out in a schematic.

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This information will be available to show in reports, which can be covered in other lessons. For now, we’ll click Close and you can see the cable is added with its unique mark on the line diagram. Another place this cable will show up, is if we go to the “Project” tab and click “Cables,” we can see the same mark shown here and when we expand it we can see the items shown in blue letting us know that pin to pin connections have been established. You can learn more about SOLIDWORKS Electrical and the new capabilities in SOLIDWORKS 2016 by signing up for a. About the Author.