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SolidWorks Electrical Routing – Part 2

Submitted by Ricky Jordan on Monday, July 13, 2009View Comments

Most users of SolidWorks Electrical Routing use the product to determine wire & route lengths.  This video is a direct followup to the Part 1 video.  In this segment, we will take the 3D Electrical Harness that we created in Part 1 and make some modifications to the route itself to better fit our design intent.  Along with that we’ll show you how you can add wires to your electrical route which will give you accurate cut lengths for the individual wires and/or cable conductors that make up your harness.  The method shown is the “manual” method which is necessary when you create a route “on the fly”.  Click on the image below to play the video.

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Part 3 of this series of posts will cover creating an Electrical Cable/Harness using a From/To list.  There is a little more setup involved, but the automation is GREAT, which results in faster route creation.

Stay tuned…more to come!

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  • Nickhulinsky
    Hi I am new here and love the video posts. I am looking forward to part 3. Any idea when you might have a chance to do it?
  • Wow! I need to get some more done on this folks. I'll put it towards the top of my list. I'm working on getting something else going for the video hosting...the bandwidth is getting to be a bit much for my site. :-)
  • Great Demo
    Excellent video. I'm not familiar with Solidworks, I use Catia v5, but it's not too user friendly for harnesses. I look forward to your next demonstration. Thanks
  • Very nicely done Rick. I worked for many years wiring up things like that but this time while watching it being done digitally I did not even get tired. :) Ps. Never keep your wife waiting for anything it could be a life threatening event. Take care my friend.
  • Very nicely done Rick. I enjoyed watching this done digitally after doing so many of these in my career where I maunually wired up electrical components. I didn't even get tired following along. :) Ps. Never keep your wife waiting for anything. That can be life threatening.
  • Rory
    These videos were a big help. Thank you for putting them together!
  • carlpierce
    Ricky -

    I really appreciate your tutorials, they're well put together and very informative. Any plans to make a Part 3 (or more) follow-up to this series?

    Thanks!
  • Wow, part two was even better than part one.

    Okay so this is great and I'm glad you are blogging again and everything but in the meantime your wife (that'd be me) is still using a manual can opener.

    So I picked out one that I like, it matches the new kitchen, and you got paid today.
    Hint hint.

    Christy :)

    http://snipurl.com/nd2oz

    www.southernplate.com

    P.S. If you order it with my acct, its free shipping. :)

    Y'all carry on now, sorry to interrupt.
    ~goes back to the kitchen~
  • I've got to admit...that is the most creative way I have ever seen someone get a can opener. :-)

    It's on the way. :-)

    Ricky
  • It arrived today now I need it installed :)
  • cairnsy
    Wicked Vid mate... excellent content

    Any chance you could "Pump up the Volume"?

    The audio is quite low even with my volume turned up MAX on both Web & Komputa sound card

    Keep 'em comin'
  • Steve_Calvert
    I refreshed and even re-booted (because of something else) and this time it gets to 55 seconds and stopped.
  • Steve,

    I'm not having any problems with the video playback on my end. Have you tried refreshing the page? I'll check my server when I get a chance and see if I see any errors.

    Anyone else having this same problem?

    Ricky
  • Steve_Calvert
    Ricky, your video stops at 25 seconds, what's up?
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