What is SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional?

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional is a bundled offering of two of our powerful design tools: SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic Professional and SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D. We recognize the reality that embedded electrical systems planning requires synchronized work, often requiring an individual to wear many hats–electrical and mechanical, 2D and 3D. With SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional, you have access to a unified toolset providing single-line and multi-line schematic tools coupled with powerful 3D visualizations to provide you with an end-to-end product design experience all in one neat package.

Key Benefits of SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional

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Cross-functional Development

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional is ideal for individuals supporting both electrical and mechanical teams whether you’re a solo designer filling both roles, or a schematic or 3D specialist working bidirectionally across teams.

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Multi-Domain Integration

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional integrates with a range of existing SOLIDWORKS products, from data management to flow simulation offerings, to meet your unique design and project management needs.

Intelligent Design Automation

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SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional contains a wide range of intelligent design automations. These capabilities help you reduce your time spent on manual, tedious tasks like documentation audits, and part and wire numbering updates. Some of our intelligent design automations include:

  • Circuit reuse: With SOLIDWORKS Electrical, copy and paste really is as simple as copy and paste–all labels and numbering are updated for you when you duplicate a part/circuit, eliminating human error and reducing time spent on auditing documentation.
  • SQL database foundation: Enables the real-time integration between the schematic design and the 3D product model. 
  • Automated report generation: Generate and automatically update commonly used reports like BOMs, wire lists, and more, in addition to the ability to create custom reports.
  • Automated contact cross-referencing: Electrical contacts are automatically cross-referenced in real-time and synchronized based on the availability and type of contacts from manufacturer-specific components.

Schematic Design

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Thanks to the schematic capabilities of SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic, SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional gives you access to a host of schematic design features, whether you’re designing electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, or PFD/P&ID systems. Some of these capabilities include:

  • Line Diagrams and Detailed Schematics: Create parametric, associative, intelligent schematic designs for a range of use cases.
  • Electrical Component and Symbol Library: Just as in SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic, with SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional you have access to our extensive library of industry-standard schematic symbols (IEC, ANSI, JIS, GB) combined with a database of manufacturer parts. Plus, import your own parts and symbols to customize the tool to best fit your needs.
  • 2D Cabinet Creation: Generate 2D panel representations from an electrical schematic, with 2D outlines of electrical components including multi-level terminal support.

3D Design and Visualization

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Pulling from SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D, SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional enables you to reach a new dimension of design through a range of 3D capabilities including:

  • Electrical Harness Design Planning: With its virtual “design-in-place” electrical system development environment, SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D provides auto-routing of a schematically-defined electrical harness in a SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD model, which simplifies harness development while eliminating errors. 
  • Flattened Harness Drawings: Once the virtual harness is created, SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D can produce flattened harness drawings that include ballooned assemblies, connector wiring tables, circuit summaries, as well as associated BOM documentation.
  • 3D Electrical Cabinet Design: SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D provides a design environment enhanced for 3D industrial controls panel design and synchronized in real-time without the use of external files and can utilize existing CAD designs, offering comprehensive electrical 3D cabinet design and documentation capabilities.

SOLIDWORKS Integration

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SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional integrates with a range of other products within the SOLIDWORKS product suite including:

  • SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD: Integrate electrical schematic design data from SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D into a SOLIDWORKS model for a complete 3D representation of your electrical system design. Real-time collaboration allows for increased integration of electrical and mechanical teams. 
  • SOLIDWORKS PDM: Enhance collaboration via the SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional integration, with its secure data storage and workflow management to fit your electrical design process. 
  • SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation: With SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation, you can conduct thermal analysis to preempt heat build up, thus ensuring safer and more durable designs.

Shared Success with the SOLIDWORKS Electrical Suite

Check out some of our customer stories below for examples of how users like you have found success with SOLIDWORKS Electrical.

Dive Deeper

Below, you can find a collection of resources that dive deeper into some of the key capabilities and topics related to SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional.

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