From the course: Learning SOLIDWORKS Electrical
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Drawing symbols
- Once I'm in my symbol editor, this is essentially just an area where I can draw whatever I'd like. So again, any symbol I may need, I can just draw or sketch out now, using a number of drawing tools. In the symbol editor, most of the tabs we'll be using will be in the draw tab to actually draw it up. And maybe the modify as well, trim and extend and so on. In addition to that, we'll also take a look at edit symbol a little bit later to add the electrical connection points also. So let's start by drawing this out. I want to draw something like a fuse, or maybe a 3-pull fuse. So I'm going to try and use my drawing commands. This is pretty much like a 2D CAD tool now at this point. So we can draw our sketch out, rectangles, lines, circles and so forth to create our symbols here. The first thing we might want to do though, notice that right now I'm in this Justins Custom Fuse. So it's actually a DWG file for this specific symbol. And I can jump back to my electrical projects at any…
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