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Electrical · Lesson 1: Getting started with SOLIDWORKS Electrical

Interface, user rights, projects, project templates, archives and snapshots.

Lesson goal

Get familiar with the interface and create a project configured for your standard.

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2 videos

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1 exercise

Beginner

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No prerequisite

1. Watch the videos

Dassault Systèmes videos hosted on MySolidWorks: they open in a new tab and a free account is enough. Watch them in order.

SOLIDWORKS Electrical IntroductionVideo 1▶SOLIDWORKS Electrical IntroductionThe main elements of the software, interface customization, user rights and the environment archive.↗ Working with Electrical ProjectsVideo 2▶Working with Electrical ProjectsCreate a project from a template, adapt it to a standard and back it up with an archive or a snapshot.↗

2. Key takeaways

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All work happens in a project, created from a project template.

2

Project settings adapt to the country or industry standard; configuration files handle drawing preferences.

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The environment archive backs up or shares your data; project archives and snapshots protect a specific project.

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User rights management defines what each user can do in the environment.

Tip

Create your own project template with your title block and standard settings: every new project then starts from the right base.

3. Do the exercise

Set up your working environment:

  • create a project from a supplied template
  • change a standard setting in the project configuration
  • take a snapshot, modify the project, then go back to the snapshot
✓To check: After restoring the snapshot, the project returns exactly to its state before the change.

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