- [Instructor] Let's take a look at how to edit
or customize our PLCs.
So now that we've inserted this PLC input
and output symbol for my PLC component.
Let's take a look.
Let's zoom in here a little bit for my PLC input.
So again, I have my power supplies
and I have a number of inputs here.
Let's say I want to add some additional information,
description or name or addressing or something like that.
But if I just want to edit some of those values,
I can actually right-click on this PLC symbol,
and just go into Edit PLC.
That will jump me into my PLC manager
and we'll learn more about the PLC manager
in the next lessons as well.
But what this does is it just shows me all
of my PLCs within this project.
In this case, just have the one PLC named N1.
And it was that manufacturer part we chose and so on.
And then it shows me the list of all of the pins
or electrical connection points within that PLC,
which ones are being used, which ones aren't, and so on.
So I have a number of information
for each of these pins here,
and I can edit, change those values,
throw in addressing, throw in descriptions,
whatever it might be here.
So let's say I was only using those first four input pins.
So I'm going to take a look at some of those pins here.
I can just double-click.
Let's say I want to add some descriptions.
I'm just going to double-click on input one,
and description might just be Stop.
Maybe I have a stop pushbutton or something like this.
Then, number two, maybe it can be Start.
And number three, maybe I'll call Cyl1.
And number four input, maybe I'll call Cyl2.
These are just descriptions.
You can see, you can change the addressing,
channel numbers and so on,
and you can actually associate a specific macro as well,
and that will come in automatically to your PLCs,
do a bunch of wiring for you.
Since I'm happy with this, I just close out.
It's just a simple edit.
And I should see that information coming in
right on my symbol.
So my Stop, my Start, my Cyl1, and my Cyl2.
Descriptive names come in right in
on those pins, as well as the addressing
and the pin numbers and everything else.
And now let's say if I want
to fully customize how this whole symbol looks.
Maybe I want to change the size
or how it looks or whatever it may be.
Again, with SOLIDWORKS Electrical I have the ability
to customize almost everything.
There's lots of customization options.
And where the majority of those are,
again, within the Project tab, Configurations drop-down.
So again, we've already taken a look
at project options and settings.
We've customized our wire styles.
We customized some cross-references,
and this is the same idea for the PLCs.
So I have PLC drawing here.
I can click on this.
And I'm back into my configuration management.
So this is the application wide configurations.
This is the project wide configurations.
So these are just all of my customized PLC configurations.
Again, the bold is what's being currently used.
So that's the one that I chose when inserting that symbol.
But I can create new.
I can rename these whatever I'd like.
In this case I'm just going to jump in
to the existing configuration here.
Take a look at the properties.
And here is where we can fully edit,
customize how our PLCs may look and come in and so forth.
So I'm going to change the name here if I'd like.
Go through each and every one of these tabs.
So I have actual sizings,
so I can throw in the sizing
and the pin spacing of my PLC symbol.
I have the option to make it vertical,
left or right, as well as horizontal, top and bottom.
Whatever may suit my needs.
As well as, attributes very important here.
How much information and what information
I want coming in to my PLCs.
So as we saw on my existing symbol,
by default just coming in with the address number,
the pin number, the description and so on.
But you can throw in a whole bunch of information,
additional information,
lesser information, to fit your needs.
Same idea, run through each and every one of these layouts.
It's just how it's going to fit on the page,
the connection points,
what information's going to come in on the actual pin,
what circuits you might see and so on.
So you can customize these to fit your particular needs.
Maybe save it out again.
Each company is going to have their own configurations
and so on, slightly different variations.
Or you can just use the SOLIDWORKS' defaults provided.
This case, I'm just going to use the SOLIDWORKS' default.
And close out.
And this is the general shape and options,
attributes, everything like that,
that will come in to a PLC.
But if you want to standardize
to your own company's standards,
you have the ability to customize a whole bunch
of options for this.