- SOLIDWORKS Electrical, by the default installation,
comes with about 2,000 pre-built symbols.
Again, I can just jump to my library tab
and jump into my symbols manager.
Again, this shows me the search option
we've been using throughout for all the symbols
we have available.
Maybe I'll just remove the filters
and see again, here's my about 2,000 pre-built symbols.
In addition to this, we saw we can download
thousands and thousands of additional symbols
that are available online in the Electrical portal.
But say we have some very specific customized symbols
that we may need,
that's maybe only specific to our company,
and might not be available on the portal.
So, in that case, of course, we can build
all of our own symbols as well.
So, to do this, maybe I'll first just
filter down the classification a little bit.
I'm going to jump into classifications,
and maybe fuses and disconnects,
and again here this is something
that is very common, so of course I have a whole number
of pre-built options for me.
But let's say, for whatever reason,
none of these suited my needs,
or wasn't the exact symbol I was looking for,
so I was going to create my own fuse symbol as well.
So of course, to do this, I have a bunch of different
options I can do.
One good option would just be do a copy paste
of one of these existing symbols,
or a duplicate.
This is nice because then I'm not building from scratch.
I can actually build up, just make some small
edits or changes from something that's already existing.
So if I want three-phase fuse, I can just build off
something like this or something like this
and save some time.
So you can just do a copy paste, too,
and create a duplicate of those.
But if I want to create something completely from scratch,
I can just go to new, and here is my new symbol right now,
as you can see, just completely empty,
completely from scratch.
And I want to give it a name and a description.
The name just has to be a unique identifier,
so right now it's just given this value here,
but maybe I want to call this Justin's custom fuse,
or whatever unique name I like to give it,
and then also a description.
Maybe I'll just throw in the exact same name here,
just Justin's custom fuse,
and a whole number of properties
that I can use to define this symbol.
So these properties are just used to
pretty much help search for the symbol and so on.
So I probably want to throw it
into the correct classification, fuses and disconnects.
So again, this just means when I'm searching
in my classifications, it will pop up in the right area.
What type of symbol it is, is it a multi-wire symbol?
So that's for schematics.
Is it a line diagram symbol, terminal,
is it a terminal, is it a source destination and so forth.
In this case, if it's just a schematic symbol,
it's generally going to be multi-wire symbol.
Unit system, maybe I want metric,
maybe I want imperial, maybe I'll try to switch this
to imperial here.
Specific library, if I'm saving out libraries,
maybe for specific types of projects
or specific companies I'm working with,
I can throw it in a specific library.
As well as manufacturer, is it always going to be tied to
a manufacturer, or a reference number,
I can really throw in whatever information I'd like.
One that can also be useful is the mark route.
So that, essentially, is the letter that will
come with this symbol by default,
so if I don't give it a specific mark number or name,
for example, the mark route will be the default.
So, in this case, if it was a fuse,
maybe I wanted one the default mark group to be F.
So as I insert these symbols,
if I don't give any specific name,
they're going to come in F1, F2, F3 and so forth
with this fuse symbol.
That's enough for now, I can fill out
any of these properties as I need,
and I'll just say okay.
And so that has now created this empty symbol.
So right now, of course, it's just completely blank.
There is not much of a symbol in there,
wouldn't be too useful yet,
but now it's in my library, and I can edit, create,
draw up, really whatever symbol I'd like here.
So generally from here, once I'd get started,
so I can just double click on this
Justin's custom fuse, or I can click open,
and this now jumps me into my fuse editor.