Electrical Symbols Library

Does anyone know of a electrical symbols library for solidworks?

 

SW isn't a 2D program (i.e. schematics, P&ID diagrams, Process Flow
Diagrams, etc...) no matter what the salesmen tell you.

MS Visio on the other hand does a half decent job of creating these
type of drawings. If you have Visio Professional on the same machine
as your SW application you can invoke Visio directly from SW (if you
have a drawing open) by selecting insert - schematic. ( Note - if the
"schematic" is greyed out that means you either don't have Visio on
your machine or it is the wrong version).

The advantage of this system is that you can use the SW titleblock and
revesion control the file just like any other SW drawing.

It has standard blocks built into it including electronic &
electrical. Don't know how extensive they are but you could always
find/buy a library of AutoCAD blocks and convert them to Visio easy
enough.

The reporting function is pretty nice which allows you to
automatcially generate BOM's and such using the properties of the
Visio shapes. (2D version of SW's Bill of material that counts parts).

It also works well and plays nice with other MS office applications.

Third party add-ons are available to add smarts to the shapes such as
preventing you from wiring up compoents wrong. Others allow you to
look up databse values and populate a property dialog box from
approved vendors, suppliers, etc.... . Output can also be in Excel
which is handy to create a master Engineering BOM.

Cheers,

Len K. Mar, P.Eng.
E-data Solutions.

 

As Len indicates, SolidWorks isn't a good choice for doing schematics,
wiring diagrams, logic layouts, etc.. However, if what you're doing is
basically just annotating SolidWorks drawings with functional symbols
and if you can come up with an AutoCAD library of symbols, as Len also
suggests, it's easy enough to make those into Blocks (by SolidWorks'
definition of 'Block') and insert those into SolidWorks drawings. Just
open them as a Drawing (instead of as a Part). See SolidWorks Help for
'Block'.

'Spork'