SOLIDWORKS Electrical terminal creation

August 2, 2024
SOLIDWORKS Electrical terminal creation diagram

CREATION OF DEFAULT TERMINAL SYMBOL IN SOLIDWORKS ELECTRICAL

Creation of a new terminal strip drawing and modifying the default terminal symbol in Solidworks electrical and customizing it according to our specification.

In SOLIDWORKS Electrical, the system automatically creates terminal symbols, dynamically updating the origin and destination of wires and component details on the terminal drawing sheet..

STEP 1

Step-by-Step Guide to SOLIDWORKS Electrical Terminal Creation

  • AS shown in the below image 
  • Once you create the terminal, you must create a page with the terminal details..
  • To create a page right click -> Draw terminal strip.
  • Then the system will automatically assign terminal strip details and create a page with the default symbol.

  STEP 2

TERMINAL PAGE with default symbol

  • Once you complete the above steps, the system will generate a new page.
  • In the Display Tree Manager, you will create a new page with the terminal page symbol. The system will automatically generate this page with terminal details and the default symbol.

STEP 3

CHANGING DEFAULT SYMBOL

  • To modify the default symbol 
  • First, create a new symbol and save it in a library.
  • We have already discussed creating a new symbol and saving it in a library in previous topics.
  • And after a new symbol saved, in terminal page have to go to right click ->

EDIT TERMINAL STRIP DRAWING CONFIGURATION.

STEP 4

TERMINAL STRIP CONFIGURATION

  • The system will open a new tab for the terminal strip configuration page.
  • This page is used to change the multiple option not only changing the symbols, but it will also be used to change the layout, Layout positions, wire origin and destination, Earth terminal, Bridges etc.…all others will be covered in the upcoming blogs.
  • As shown in the below image by selecting default terminal option (Highlighted with black box at the bottom)
  • Use the SELECT option in the right corner (highlighted with a black box) to change the symbol.

STEP 5

SYMBOL SELECTOR

  • The system will open a library with more symbols, as shown below.
  • Must select symbol of our requirement of terminal symbols.
  • You can create and save multiple types of symbols in the library.
  • The second image shows that once you select a symbol, the preview of the symbol changes in the EDIT TERMINAL STRIP CONFIGURATION dialog box.

STEP 6

DEFAULT TERMINAL SYMBOL UPDATION

  • After applied those changes in the properties
  • Select UPDATE TERMINAL STRIP DRAWINGS as shown in the first image below
  • After you complete the update, the system will change the default symbol to another symbol, and the new symbol will then serve as the default.A screenshot of a computer Description automatically generated

Summary

  • With these above-mentioned points we can be able to create a Default terminal symbol in solidworks electrical.
  • This TERMINAL will act as a default TERMINAL SYMBOL in SOLIDWORKS ELECTRICAL SCHEMATICS.