From the course: Learning SOLIDWORKS Electrical
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Adding manufacturer parts to the library
From the course: Learning SOLIDWORKS Electrical
Adding manufacturer parts to the library
- [Narrator] SOLIDWORKS Electrical, when first installed, comes with a default library. So this library contains, as we saw, something like 2,000 symbols, maybe a few hundred manufacturer parts, a few title blocks and templates and so on. But what if we want to add to that library? Instead of just having a few hundred manufacturer parts, maybe we're selecting from thousands of manufacturer parts, or tens of thousands of symbols. Whatever it may be. So, if you want to take a look at our existing libraries I can just jump to the library tab here. And this holds pretty much all of our libraries. So, all of our symbols within the symbol manager, if I just jump in here. Again, the search box that we've seen before, but if I jump to filters I'm just going to remove filters to show all of my symbols. Again, by default we saw this already, we have about 2,000 or so symbols pre-created in our libraries here. Similarly, with the footprints, the title blocks, and so on. Maybe I'll jump into…
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