- [Narrator] SOLIDWORKS Electrical, when first installed,
comes with a default library.
So this library contains, as we saw,
something like 2,000 symbols,
maybe a few hundred manufacturer parts,
a few title blocks and templates
and so on.
But what if we want to add to that library?
Instead of just having a few hundred manufacturer parts,
maybe we're selecting from thousands of manufacturer parts,
or tens of thousands of symbols.
Whatever it may be.
So, if you want to take a look at our existing libraries
I can just jump to the library tab here.
And this holds pretty much all of our libraries.
So, all of our symbols within the symbol manager,
if I just jump in here.
Again, the search box that we've seen before,
but if I jump to filters I'm just going to remove
filters to show all of my symbols.
Again, by default we saw this already,
we have about 2,000 or so symbols pre-created
in our libraries here.
Similarly, with the footprints, the title blocks, and so on.
Maybe I'll jump into Manufacturer parts as well.
And again, I'll just remove all filters
and search my manufacturer parts.
So by default, in my SOLIDWORKS Electrical library,
I only have about 350 or so manufacturer parts.
So of course each company and customer
is going to have their own parts and symbols and so forth.
So the default library is great but we also
probably want to add to that library.
So we can, of course, we'll see later on
create our own symbols and create our own manufacturer parts
and everything like this.
But maybe first we want to check to see what's available
online for us.
So SOLIDWORKS already has a whole ton of pre-created
library components,
millions of symbols and parts and so forth.
So if you don't have to re-create it yourself,
why go through the hassle?
So if I want to add some additional manufacturer parts here,
I can go directly to their online content portal or website.
Can actually get to it from here,
just within the Manufacturer parts manager.
Right here, this Online content button.
And that will jump me into this website here.
And from here I have a few different options,
but where I want to jump into is the
SOLIDWORKS Electrical Portal.
Jump into the Electrical Portal,
I might have to sign in with my email and password.
Might need to throw in my serial number and so on.
But once in there,
you have the ability to download tens of thousands,
or millions of components, parts,
symbols, whatever it may be.
And this portal is constantly growing,
so it's just getting larger and larger
as more symbols and components are built up in the library.
So, first check here.
More than likely any commonly-used components
will already be built for you.
And then you just download and unarchive
like any other file.
So once we've download whatever it is we're looking for,
maybe a specific manufacturer or catalog
or something like this,
then I can just go into my Manufacturer parts manager,
if it's manufacturer parts, for example.
And I'll go to Unarchive.
Search for whatever catalog I may have downloaded.
Here, for example, I just downloaded some specific
Schneider Electric catalog.
And I'll just unarchive this,
and jump through the Unarchiving wizard
as we've already kind of taken a look at.
Here we can see, it looks like this catalog
that I was looking at
has about another 400 Schneider Electric Manufacturer parts
that I'm going to to add to my library.
And just jump through next or finish it off.
So when you first install SOLIDWORKS Electrical,
you'll probably want to download
and update your database
so you contain all of the information, parts manufacturers,
that you most commonly use.
Now you can see that my manufacturer part list
just grew from 300
now closer to 700.
So I've just added that 400 or so Schneider Electric parts.
Similarly, you do the exact same for symbols,
footprints, title blocks,
or really whatever else you may be able to find
and find useful on that electrical portal.