45. SolidWorks Electrical - How to Open the Correct Ports in your Firewall

This how-to video demonstrates how and what ports need to be opened in your firewall in order for SolidWorks Electrical to work with its SQL Database and Collaborative Server.
Posted by: Christian van der Horst, SolidWorks Electrical Technical Manager

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44. SolidWorks Electrical - How to use Terminal Bridges on Terminal Strips

This video demonstrates how easy it is to bridge terminals in the Terminal Strip Manager of SolidWorks Electrical. The video then continues to illustrate how bridges can be represented in a terminal strip drawing.
Posted by: Christian van der Horst, SolidWorks Electrical Technical Manager

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43. SolidWorks Electrical - How to Create a 2D Electrical Drawing with Cabinet and Back Plate

This video demonstrates how to utilise Solidworks Electrical 2D to create a 2D Drawing of an Electrical cabinet and its back plate. The designer can then continue to add the DIN rails and components to the project. 
Posted by: Christian van der Horst, SolidWorks Electrical Technical Manager

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Weld Check Using SolidWorks Simulation

In this Blog Applications Engineer Amgad Yacoub shows how to use the weld check tool available in SolidWorks simulation professional.

This is a very neat and handy tool that can help designers to identify problems with their weld connectors.


For more information about SolidWorks and Solidtec please check out the links below

http://www.solidtec.com.au/

https://www.youtube.com/user/SolidtecAU

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SolidWorks 2013 Flat Tree Display

In this video Solidtec Applications Engineer Nayshil Singh shows us the new feature in SolidWorks 2013 called 'Flat Tree Display".

this is an excellent and useful feature and may become a regular favorite during modeling.

the hot key for this neat trick is CTRL+T

For more information about SolidWorks and Solidtec please check out the links below

http://www.solidtec.com.au/

https://www.youtube.com/user/SolidtecAU

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Create SolidWorks drawing template from imported DWG/DXF

In this video Applications Engineer Craig Stevens shows us how we can use a DWG or DXF and import directly into SolidWorks and use the title block present on that file and incorporate that into the SolidWorks Drawing template.

this is an excellent video if you have a drawing title block/layout that is in an AutoCAD format i.e. DWG and wish to use in SolidWorks.

For more information about SolidWorks and Solidtec please check out the links below

http://www.solidtec.com.au/

https://www.youtube.com/user/SolidtecAU

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42. SolidWorks Electrical - How to Assign a Multi Level Terminal

This video demonstrates a second way of assigning and creating a multi-level terminal in SolidWorks Electrical.
Posted by: Christian van der Horst, SolidWorks Electrical Technical Manager

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