- [Instructor] In many cases,
we will want to use cables that may consist of
multiple conductors instead of just individual wires.
So let's say, for example,
this cable connecting from my
terminal block X1 to my motor M1
and X2 to M2.
Those cables are going to be a cable of, say,
four conductors rather than four individual wires.
So there's a few different way that
we can detail up our cabling.
So one way, if I just go into a line diagram drawing,
a very simple method, I can just double click on any cable.
Just double click on this line here,
and this jumps me in to my detailed cabling window.
And this is a very nice, easy to use interface.
You have our origin component on the left hand side,
so that's my X1 terminal.
You have the destination component on the right hand side.
That's my M1 motor.
And in between, it shows all of the different
electrical connections, and the wires between that.
And, if those wires are within a cable or not.
Right now these are just individual wires,
but I actually want to add these
to some cable with four conductors.
So, to add a cable I'll just go up onto my
left hand side here, we have add a cable.
And that will essentially open up my cable search list.
Just like all my other searches,
so I can search through my libraries to find
whatever cable I may need.
So here I have a whole list of a number of
different cables that I can choose from.
In this case I'm not going to get too specific,
but I just know I need a cable with four conductors.
So I'm going to take a close look at this conductor number.
And really any of them that say four
should be okay in this case.
Of course in your projects you'll want more specific cables,
and you'll be looking, probably, for a more
exact cable to fit your needs.
In this case I'm just going to say anything with four is fine.
So I'm going to grab this first one here.
I can right click and check the properties.
Just so we can see this cable information come in.
And, here we have a whole number
of properties for that specific cable.
But important here, I'm just going to take
a look at the individual cores or conductors.
So there's four here.
They have a description, color, section, and so on.
I'm just going to make note of those
brown, black, blue, and green and yellow.
So we're going to see those later on in just a second.
Say okay to that.
And so I'm going to add this to my project,
so I'm just going to double click.
That should jump down here showing that
it's being added, and then hit select.
And now I can see my cable.
And there's my brown, black, blue,
green and yellow again coming in here.
So now I still see my wires have not been cabled,
so I need to essentially associate them with this cable.
So I need to pretty much pin out from the terminal
to the specific cable conductor.
There's a number of ways you can do this.
You can do it one by one.
You can grab four at a time.
Whatever it may be.
Or SOLIDWORKS will also just do it's best
to figure out if they're in the correct order,
which in this case they are.
One, two, three, four will match up with terminal
one, two, three, four, and so on.
So just grab any one of these
and just say associate wires.
And so in some cases if they're out of order
or things like that, you'll have to do them one at a time.
But if everything is nice and lined up and in order,
it's going to actually automatically do it all for you.
So now you're seeing that my cable is,
the brown conductor, is going from terminal one
to motor terminal one.
Black terminal two, to the motor terminal two.
And so on.
Then once we're happy with this,
I can just close out of this window.
And now you see this cable has some
information tied to it.
So it's W1, that's the number of my
cabling system number in there.
And the specific reference number of that cable as well.
Now this would come in at the end of the day
and say a cable list, or a wiring list again
for a build material or a parts list or something like that.
And what's also useful here, is it's not just
with line diagrams, it's now automatically
tied up into our schematics as well.
So if I jump into my power schematic,
here's the schematic view.
And again here's my X1 terminal and my M1 motor.
And you see these wires have now automatically
been associated with a cable.
And we're seeing that same information.
That W1 coming in on the schematic side as well.
W1, and each of the conductors,
brown, black, blue, green and yellow and so forth.
Similarly in the exact same kind of manner,
we can either associate the cable cores
in a line diagram through the cable.
Or, we can do it in a schematic
through the individual wires.
So say I want to do the same thing from my schematics side,
I'll just do the same from between X2 and M2 here.
And I can just grab any wire, right click.
So instead of double clicking on a cable, I right click.
And I can say associate cable cores.
That's a very similar idea.
What's nice here though, I actually don't
have to do it all one at a time.
I an actually box select, maybe.
Grab all four of these, and again right click.
Go to associate cable cores.
And again I'm going to try to associate it to some cable.
I can check my project out,
it looks like right now I just have
that one cable in my project.
And all of the conductors are being used up.
So maybe I want to add another cable.
So I'll just go to new cable here.
And again search for whatever cable I may need.
In this case again I'll just use the
first one I see with four conductors,
actually the same cable.
Double click to add it in, and say select.
And now it's coming in as my W2, here it is.
And had these would be shown if it's bold or blue,
you know they're being used up.
Otherwise if it's not bold or highlighted
they're available for use.
And then what I want to do from heres is again,
just grab up either one at a time if they're out of order.
Or maybe I'll grab all four since
I think they're in order here.
Brown, black, blue, green.
Lining up with one, two, three, four.
So I'm just multi-selecting here.
And then again, hitting associate cable cores.
So it's really I'm just doing the
exact same thing twice here.
Just one from the line diagram side of things,
and once from the schematic side of things.
And they're coming in highlighted now,
I can say okay.
And here we go, we see the exact same thing
between my X2 terminal two, and my M2 motor two.
I see my conductors coming in, a new cable called W2.
And if I jumped over to my line diagram here,
and jumped into my cable.
I should see that that has been associated,
again back on my line diagram side of things as well.