- [Instructor] This cross reference information can also be
customized to fit your exact needs.
So, first of all, let's see how we can turn
this cross reference info on and off.
So, if I just right click on my component,
the K1 component here.
Right click on that, and jump into symbol properties.
And down at the bottom here I have cross references type,
and I have a drop down with a couple different options here.
So, for example if your component is set to without,
you won't see a cross reference coming in.
So, let's just see.
We'll set it to without, and say okay.
And you see now my cross reference has disappeared.
So, if you ever find a cross reference isn't coming in,
but you'd like it to come in, it might just be turned on,
or set to the without option here.
So, make sure you jump into that symbol,
and make sure that cross reference is turned on.
So, again, I'll just jump in.
Right click, go into symbol properties,
and then I'll try, I have a few different options.
Usually it's going to be parent in table, or parent in line,
at least with the relay coil here.
So, I can try parent in table first.
See what that looks like.
And then I have a cross reference, something like this.
And it's really just the exact same thing,
just a difference in the appearance.
So, this is kind of stacked vertically, or in a table.
And let's just change this over to parent in line.
It's going to be stacked more horizontally,
or in a horizontal line here.
So, that's just turning the cross references on, or off.
And then in addition to that, of course, I can edit,
and customize exactly how this cross reference looks.
So, for example, the colors that come in,
the information that comes in, the symbols that come in.
Everything like that, I can completely customize as well.
So, I have a few options to do this.
For one thing, I could just right
click on the cross reference itself,
and go into edit cross references style.
And then, I have a whole bunch of different
properties I can change, and customize, and edit here.
I'll just show you the other way
to get to this exact same area.
I'll just close out.
And this is the way I like to use, just because,
again, if we remember to customize,
or edit pretty much anything in SOLIDWORKS Electrical.
I can jump into my project tab,
and just hit this configurations drop down.
And now, we've already customized the
project settings, and options.
We've also looked into customizing some of our wire styles,
and we have a whole bunch of different options here as well.
So, one of those is my cross references.
So, you can just click on cross references here.
And this will show me the whole list of any pre built
customizations for my cross references in this case.
Notice I have two different sections here.
I have application configurations,
and project configurations.
So, what this means is that, again,
these are just custom settings for my
cross references in this case.
But they can either be application wide,
which means they'll be saved
out across the entire application.
So, when you start a new project, or a different project,
or a different user on a different machine.
They can all see, and use these specific
options that you've saved out.
If you create the customization on
the project configuration side,
that's going to be specific to this project,
and only this project.
So, you have those two different options.
They'll each have their pros, and cons.
Especially if you're working in a
big team across a big company,
maybe you want to create this
customization for your whole company.
So, you'd want to throw that within
the application configurations.
But at the same time, if it's only for you,
or only for a specific project,
maybe you don't want to jump
into somebody else's customization,
and play around, or change things around there.
So, they each have their pros, and cons to them.
In this case, maybe I'm only going
to work for this specific project,
and a different project would
have a different customization.
So, I can create, or add as many as I need here.
The ones that will be in bold are the
ones that are currently being used,
or set as the default currently.
So, I can create new if I'd like,
or I can just edit this existing one here.
So, I'll just jump into properties.
And now I'm back to that same window.
That cross references drawing configuration window.
And here, again, is where I can customize
really anything to suit my exact needs.
Really what I'm doing here is setting up a standard that
I'm going to use throughout this entire project,
or throughout my entire company for all projects.
Generally, again, this might be something that you've
set up in a project template, and save out.
So, all of your new projects will
fit this exact same standard.
So, I can go through each of these tabs.
Make whatever changes I'd like.
Give it a specific name if I'd like.
The specific style I want to use.
So, again, in this case I can use parent in line,
I can show whichever circuits I'd like to show,
I can also change the colors that will be shown.
I prefer to use these colors, cause again,
they match up with the circuit states.
And I can also change the formula.
So, the amount of information that's
coming in on this cross reference.
Again, if I just hit the function button here...
That same formula manager.
Again, I can use any SQL commands I'd like to create,
you know, as simple, or as complex formulas as
required to show all of that information.
Then I can jump into my parent in table default design.
Or in this case I think we're going to use parent in line.
And so heres the general shape.
It's nice, it gives me a little bit of a preview here.
And I can make whatever changes, in this case,
maybe just some simple changes like spacing,
or colors, or text size, or whatever it might be.
So, maybe I think my cross references are
spaced out a little bit too much.
So, I'm just going to change the distance
between the elements here...
Like this.
And now we can see my cross reference element are
coming in a little bit tighter.
Of course, I can change the text size,
text height, whatever it may be.
I have a whole number of options that I can change,
customize, edit, to fit my exact needs.
I can also change the symbols that are being used.
So, again, in my preview here I see the normally opened,
and normally closed symbols that are
going to be within my cross reference.
Those are the defaults right now.
If I jump into symbols,
I can really choose whatever symbol I'd like.
So, I can use this to be my normally closed contact,
instead of the ANSI standard that we're currently using.
And so, you can see that you can set up
cross references for pretty much any symbol,
any component you'd like.
Just made some slight changes.
Let's see how they look.
I'll just hit apply now...
And close out.
And, so, we have made a change to
this project wide configuration.
So, it's only going to make changes to this project.
Not all of my other potentially hundreds of projects
that I've created in SOLIDWORKS Electrical.
And then I'll close out.
And here we can see the slight changes that
I made have just automatically been applied.
So, it's now a little tighter fitting,
a little bit larger font size, and so on.
But again, you can customize this as much
as possible to fit your exact needs.