- [Instructor] Creating custom P&ID
and schematic drawings inside
of SolidWorks can be a breeze
when you leverage all of the tools that we've talked about
and bring it all together at once.
The first thing we want to do,
is create a custom block library.
SolidWorks, gives you the ability
to download several electrical
and hardware block components already.
I just went ahead and downloaded these
through their SolidWorks content.
If you expand that and go to Blocks, you'll see Electrical
and Hydraulics, simply hold down Ctrl,
and you can download these zips.
Once you have downloaded them, go to the annotations area
inside of your design library, right-click
and say, Open Folder and drop all
of that information inside of this location.
You can even create custom folders
for yourself that are company specific.
Once you're done editing and uploading
all those blocks simply refresh your design library.
And, now, you'll see all of your new folders
and all of your new files come up
under the annotations area.
Once you have that, you can simply drag
and drop items into the screen.
So, I'm going to grab my ground earth,
drag it in and drop it right here, now I have that symbol.
I can now add an inverter, or a battery.
And a resistor.
(mouse clicking)
I can then go in with my sketch lines
and start connecting all of these objects.
And pretty quickly I get a 2D schematic
that I can use to share my design with other people.
Now, it does take some patience,
but you can create elaborate designs
such as this one to lay out electrical schematics roughly.
Or hardware schematics, like this one,
when you're trying to do plumbing and tooling layouts.
It does take a little bit of time to create all
of those custom items and custom blocks.
But once you have that library created, it exists forever.
You can roll it forward into other versions of SolidWorks.
You can also share it on a server location
with other folks that you work
with at your company, or remotely.
So, a lot of capability there,
and really easy to create using the block functionality
by just creating that custom directory.