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Cable Wire, Component, and Covering Library wizards

Cable Wire, Component, and Covering Library wizards - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Cable Wire, Component, and Covering Library wizards

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- [Instructor] Looking through to the next area in the Routing Library Manager, we have Cable Wire Library, Component Library, and Covering Library Wizard. We're going to take a look at just one of these because they're very similar. Basically what goes on in these tabs, and I'm just going to select through them really quickly, is you have various XML files that are associated as a database with cable wire, components, and coverings. Now down here at the bottom I've opened one of these XML files to give you an example of what you can see. So this is for an optical fiber example that's included with SOLIDWORKS. And you can build these custom tables yourself and link them into SOLIDWORKS. So let's say, for example, you have a specific wiring scheme, cable scheme, or coverings scheme, or shroud scheme that you're using for your routing components. You can go through, manually create these values, and then associate them with the databases in the Routing Library Manager. So to do that…

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