- [Narrator] As we have already seen,
if I want to draw wires, then just jump
into the Schematic tab for a minute, schematic drawing.
Then I have Draw multiple wire or Draw single wire.
If I'm in three phase power, for example, I'll go to draw
multiple wire and here I can check on or off,
whichever wires I'd like to show.
I can also go into the wire style name here.
I just click on these three dots.
It jumps open my Wire style selector.
So, these are all of the wire styles that have been created
by default by Solidworks Electrical.
So, these come in with any standard installation and you
have a whole number of wire styles to choose from here.
If, for example, you want to create your own wire styles
or you don't see exactly what you need in this list,
you, of course, can create your own
custom wire styles, as well.
So, to do this, I can just click on the Manager button
down here and that will open up my Wire style manager
where I can customize, edit and add my
own custom wire styles.
Another method to get to this same wire style manager,
I'll just close out here, is going into the Project tab
and going into my Configurations drop down.
Now, this is very useful as we'll use this all
throughout the course.
This is all of the different options
that I have available to customize for my exact needs.
So, we'll see later if I want to create
a custom connector symbol,
I go to Connector or Project, we've already seen is where
I set up all my settings and options.
I can really customize a whole bunch of things here.
So, if I want to customize my specific wires,
I'll go to Wire styles and that will open up this same
Wire style manager.
So here I can insert individual wires, if it's just
for a controls drawing, like 12 volts, 24 volts,
whatever it might be.
There's a bunch already pre-created here for us.
Or I can create Multiple add, which is going to be like
my three phase wires, whatever it may be there.
So, in this case I'll just add Multiple add, let's say.
And it's created this brand new wire style here called F34.
I can click on that, see this F34 right now.
It looks like it holds five different wires, a
neutral, a protection and my three phases here.
And it gives some colors, line types, width and
a whole bunch of other properties.
So, what I can do here is I can edit and customize
this to fit my exact needs.
So, maybe I'll jump into the properties of F34.
First thing I might want to change is the name.
I'll call this Justin's 3-Phase Wire Style or
something like that, whatever name you'd like
to throw in there.
And you can throw in a whole bunch
of other properties here, as well.
In this case, I'll just say the name and I'll say OK.
And then within that wire style, I now have these five
individual wires that I can also jump
into the properties of.
So, maybe I want to change the colors or the gauge
or the description.
Really, a whole number of properties I have control over.
So, I'll grab into a neutral wire, maybe I want to keep
as is, but maybe I'll jump into my Phase one here.
I'll do my Phase one properties and I'm not going to change
too much here, but you see I have a whole number
of options and settings that I can control
for each and every wire.
In this case, maybe just so it's easy to see, I'll just make
a change to the color.
We'll say instead of being red, let's make this black.
Similarly, I'll make Phase 2 a darker gray and I'll
make my Phase 3 a lighter gray.
Of course, there's a whole number of other properties
that you have control over and can change
to suit your needs.
In this case, I'm just changing something
as simple as color so we can easily
see how this can be change and edited.
So, now I've just created this new wire style
with a couple new properties,
so it's available for my use now.
I'll close out of this Wire style manager and now
next time I jump up to Draw some wires, I'll again
go into my Schematic tab, Draw multiple wires
and if I go to search my wire styles, I should have
this new Justin's 3-Phase Wire Style I just created
with my color codes coming in.
So, I'll select this one.
Again, check on or off, whichever wires I may want to use
and I'll just draw them on my schematic here and we can
see in this case just the colors change.
The black and the gray here, but of course, those wires
would hold whatever properties I may have thrown
in there, as well.