- [Instructor] In many industrial applications
the majority of our electrical components
will be held in a electrical cabinet
or enclosure or an electrical panel.
And of course SOLIDWORKS Electrical we can generate
these paneled drawings.
So, to generate a panel drawing I can first jump
into my process tab,
and I have an option or a button called 2D cabinet layout.
What this does, essentially it will generate
a new sheet for us,
specifically for our cabinet layout drawings.
As soon as I click the button I'll be thrown
into the creation of 2D cabinet layout drawings windows here
and this gives me the ability
to create a layout drawing
for each and every location,
as well as the top level of the project.
So here I can see one panel layout drawing
will be created for the top project level
as well as one for each location within my project.
So on this specific project,
I have a main electrical closet location,
I have my backplate location,
I have my panel door location and my motor room location.
And of course, I can check these on or off,
depending how many of these panel layout drawings
I'd actually need.
In this case, maybe I actually only want one,
I don't need to draw a panel layout for, say a motor room
and my backplate and my door maybe I'll just do together.
So what I could do is I'll just uncheck all of these
except for the main electrical closet, I'll leave that
to be my panel layout drawing.
So, it's just going to create one sheet for my panel layout
and on that sheet I'll throw in
all the electrical components, both on my backplate
and on my door.
So, I'll just say OK.
And what that's done, it's just generated a new sheet
for me, but a special kind of sheet.
So if I look over to my documents tree here,
I'll see document number 11 is the main electrical closet,
so it pulled that name from the location.
And I can open that up,
and it just looks like any other sheet of course,
except now we'll see that I have a new tab,
called cabinet layout,
and a whole bunch of new tools and commands
to help me with my cabinet layout drawing.
So, this specific sheet is where, of course,
I'll be drawing out my panel or cabinet layouts.