SolidWorks Electrical

[Nella95]

Where's the best place to get these questions answered? Or is this too new to really have a best place to get SWE questions answered?

SW Professional 2014
SW Electrical 2D/3D
64 bit SP1.0
Intel Xeon X(R) CPU 1603 0 @ 2.80 GHz
8.0 GB of RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 2000

 

[Jboggs]

What questions?

 

[Nella95]

Newbie questions -- specifically...

Visio to SWE
...And now the approved method, is to save my Visio symbols back to *.dwg/*.dxf - so SolidWorks Electrical can import and use these symbols integrating with the SWE software. I managed to do this just fine for the first few documents I imported (a valve, and an electrical control box) - now though I'm just trying to do what I was doing before...and I get the error message - 'Symbol corruption. It cannot be inserted.' So, I'm wondering if my method of importing is bad, or the files are 'actually' corrupt - which I'm having a difficult time working around.

SW Professional 2014
SW Electrical 2D/3D
64 bit SP1.0
Intel Xeon X(R) CPU 1603 0 @ 2.80 GHz
8.0 GB of RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 2000

 

[Jboggs]

I always pictured Visio as just a tool for making pretty pictures, not an engineering software. If you have SW electrical why are you still using Visio? Not that I need an answer. I don't. Just a thought. And I can't help you on your file corruption issue. Sorry.

 

[Nella95]

Yeah - pretty pictures exactly - we upgraded to SolidWorks Electrical and I wanted all of my pretty Visio pictures to be associated with the new found parts - specifically *.dxf and *.dwg.

I've figured out a work-around...

For anyone else having this issue - save the part as a *.dwg on an existing title block, but make sure no title block info remains on the drawing. Then go in to SolidWorks Electrical importing in the recently created *.dwg.

SW Professional 2014
SW Electrical 2D/3D
64 bit SP1.0
Intel Xeon X(R) CPU 1603 0 @ 2.80 GHz
8.0 GB of RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 2000

 

[SBaugh]

Have your VAR do a demo for you and ask your questions there... our VAR did a lunch and learn and we got a free lunch and got to ask all the questions you wanted to in the process of learning and determining if we wanted to pay the cost of SW new electrical. Its much better than AutoCAD's electrical. We have that currently and it gets us through, but its very much lacking compared to the SW electrical.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
Berry Plastics
Cad Admin\Design Engineer
GEASWUG Greater Evansville Area SWUG Leader

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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