- [Instructor] Reports are lists that show us information
about the specific electrical project.
Now, there are any number of automated reports
that you can generate
from whatever information you've put into your project.
Again, we're using an SQL database,
so all of the information,
all of the data,
every single thing we're throwing into our project
is stored and located on an SQL database.
Then we can pull that information from the SQL database
and put it into a nice table list or report.
To generate some reports,
I can just jump into the Project tab,
and over on my right-hand side again,
I have Reports.
So these are all of the pre-created
SolidWorks default reports.
So, for example,
parts lists, wire lists, cable lists, bill of materials,
and so on.
Right now I just have four currently active
for this project,
but I can add however many I'd like.
So again, just going to the Add command here,
and again, by default,
these all come in
with your SolidWorks Electrical installation.
Again, about 20 or 30 unique reports.
And these are the most commonly used reports
for electrical projects.
So bill of materials, part lists, cable lists, wire lists,
pinouts, PLC, input/output lists, and so forth.
More often than not,
you'll be able to find what you're looking for
in these pre-created lists.
That being said, of course,
you as always have the ability to customize
and create however many reports you may need.
So if you need a very specific report for your project,
you can essentially write up any SQL code
to create that specific report.
In this case,
I'm just going to use the three or four here,
just the ones that are checked off.
So drawing list, cable list, bill of materials, and so on.
And obviously OK.
So it gives you a preview
of what your report's going to give you.
So I'm looking for a bill of materials here,
wire list, a list of cables,
and a drawing list.
So that's about all that I'm going to generate
for this specific project.
So I have the preview here,
and then once I'm happy with this
or the way it looks,
I can go to Generate Drawings,
and it's going to ask me which of these reports
do I want to generate
and throw into my final project.
I'm going to check off all of them here.
And obviously OK.
Takes a second or two
to generate those reports automatically for me.
There we go.
I can close out here.
And then let's take a look at the reports I just generated.
Here I see them coming in in my documents tree.
So bill of materials, wire list, cable list, so forth.
Let me just double click and open those,
just like any other drawing.
And here we go,
automatically created a nice organized
bill of materials for me.
So it's really just a table,
a list of information,
and all of that information is pulling from
what I've already input to my project.
So bill of materials, wire list,
just a few different things that I'm using
in this simple project,
but you can add and edit as many different reports,
custom automated reports as required
for your specific needs.