I had way too many meetings before SOLIDWORKS Electrical was in my life. In a past career, I worked as a Systems Engineer. This meant my job was to oversee all aspects of a project and make connections across teams. What this resulted in was daily meetings with each...
When working in assemblies, especially electrically focused ones, as I often find myself in, I spend more time worrying about making sure mates are correct, than the accuracy of my routes. SOLIDWORKS Electrical uses the Electrical Component Wizard to aid in mating...
Growing up, my dad was usually "at work." I had some vague concept of what this meant, but really struggled to understand what exactly my dad was doing all those hours during the day. In kindergarten, I told my teacher that my dad was a "sailor" since he worked in...
Last month I spent two days at DriveWorks World in Chicago. It was an opportunity to learn more about DriveWorks, as well as hear how DriveWorks customers and employees are using the product to make their lives easier. Hearing from users that have taken...
I was helping out a customer this week, and I noticed that he was using a side panel on the Task Pane that I’ve completely forgotten over the years. I frequently use the Task Pane for the Design Library, Appearances, Resources and the View Palette, but that was pretty...
How often have you completed a design, simply to recreate it again with a custom or design-driven variation? If you frequently find yourself designing similar parts and assemblies, then you may be in need of a tool to help you quickly create these design variations...
One of the advantages of using a schematic tool that integrates into your mechanical design like SOLIDWORKS Electrical (SWE) is that you can visualize your electrical design in a 3D space. This allows for your schematic symbols and lines to translate into components...
The more work I accomplish in SOLIDWORKS, the more I realize that I frequently use the same commands over and over. Out of the box, SOLIDWORKS has no way of knowing which commands will be my “go-to” functions, so they have allowed the interface to be easily...
Last week, we had the pleasure of a visit from Chris Cassettari, a pre-sales engineer at DriveWorks. Chris flew to Syracuse from Manchester, England to educate and refresh our team on what DriveWorks has to offer. The week was spent going through DriveWorks Solo...
On a typical demo for SOLIDWORKS Electrical, I’m often asked if the standard package has “x” manufacturer’s part or “x” specific symbol. While there are over a half million parts that can be downloaded for the software, there is still a likelihood that a specific...