Electrical Cable Harness Design

Easily add wire/cable/harness/conduit systems for your design, including path planning and complete BOMs.

SOLIDWORKS Premium allows you to quickly design and route electrical wiring, harnessing, cabling, and conduit assemblies of products. Thanks to the integrated nature of SOLIDWORKS these systems are added throughout the development process as oppose to after saving time and rework costs and ensuring efficient product assembly and serviceability.

SOLIDWORKS Premium features design tools which build paths of pipes, tubes or electrical assembly as required for your assembly, these tools meet the needs of increasing number or products which use sensors, control systems and other systems requiring cabling and wiring.

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Large Assembly!!

The assembly in the following screen capture is 183,714 components with 264,653 bodies and Solidworks can handle it and more with no problems at all. So whats the secret?

Large Assemblies’ Pains
1- Long opening and  saving time
2- Long-time creating assembly drawings
3-  Low performance with limited computer resources
4- Hard to share within the team or externally between customers and suppliers.

Solution: 
1-First and last recommendation, don’t work on large assemblies and drawings over the network. Always have your Solidworks files on your local drive unless you are using a data management solution.
2- Use Lightweight Mode to open and work on large assemblies and assembly drawings.
3- Set your Solidworks Assembly Options to automaticuse Large Assembly Mode when loading large assemblies based on the number of components in your assembly.
4- Make sure that the files for all the components of the assembly have been updated to the latest version of Solidworks. You can use theAssembly Xpert tool under the Evaluate command manager to make sure that this is the case.
5-Freeze the finished components in your assembly, this will reduce the rebuilding time.
6- Make sure that you have fully defined assembly, and all the assembly’s  mates are resolved.
7- If you are only opening your assembly to navigate, measure, create cross section, hide/show components or create a walk through, Then it is recommended to load your assembly using Large Design Review.
8- Always break your assembly into subassemblies, it is better to have 1,000 components in 10 subassemblies than to have them in the main level assembly.
9- If possible try to limit the in-context modelling and the assembly features.
10- Want to learn more on this topic. Please contact your local Intercad Field Engineer, he will be happy to help.

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