Electrical Schematics 1

[JTMitchell]

I came across this thread from a while back talking about the need to place electrical schematics in harness drawings.

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=195115

Since that was in 2006, I will ask again and see if there is any added functionality in that area. I would like to take my eletrical rout, and on the first sheet of the drawing have the flattened rout with wire length tables (I know how to do this), but I would like to have a visual electrical schematic on the second sheet showing connection and pin information. I would also like to create pin out diagrams for cable drawings. Is there a way to create these visual schematics automatically from the information embedded in the rout?

If not, does anyone know what large engineering firms use to create these schematics? Are they just creating them in visio and pasting them into drawings? It seems like there should be more automation than that. I'm new to this, and while I know that nothing will be fully automated, I am trying to make sure I am not doing things the long way if not necessary.

Thanks so much for any thoughts.

 

[NL8]

JT,

As far as I know there is no way for SW by itself to do what you want to do. I do know that there are two different partners that offer 3rd party programs that tie into SW and do what you want. The one we went with and are still implementing is ElecWorks from Tracesoftware (notable as a gold partner, currently the only ECAD gold partner that I know of), the other is E3 Wireworks from Zuken. Would recommend you take a look at these and I can put you in contact with a good rep and tech guy for Elecworks.

Joe Hasik,
CSWP/SMTL/MTLS
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[ctopher]

A lot of companies use a third party application for schematics, like Visio.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/

Chris
SolidWorks 10 SP4.0
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[JTMitchell]

Thanks guys for your comments. Some coworkers had researched and were looking at Zuken a while back, but it was never purchased. We currently are creating and pasting in the schematics from viso. We don't use Pro/E (Creo Elements, excuse me) here, but the Routed Systems Designer tool for that seems to be very useful. SolidWorks routing just isn't quite there yet it seems.

 

[AnnaWood]

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