What’s New in Electrical Schematic Designer R2025x FD01

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First off, I want to thank everyone who attended the electrical sessions at 3DEXPERIENCE World for their interest in the SOLIDWORKS electrical solutions. This year was my 25th year attending, and I was happy to participate in many discussions and learn about your experiences and suggestions for using SOLIDWORKS Electrical products. Plus, I enjoyed showing off the latest developments.

That said, I want to tell you about a new enhancement in the Electrical Schematic Designer that came to fruition per a customer request.

In the latest update of Electrical Schematic Designer, R2025 Functional Delivery (FD) 01, you can easily create electrical assemblies that include items such as terminals, pins, and accessories in the schematic software WITHOUT the need for modeling in 3D.

I’ll expand on that momentarily, but for those of you who don’t know, Electrical Schematic Designer is a cloud-connected solution purpose-built for designing electrical systems that include single-line and multi-line schematic creation, selection of manufacturer’s parts, and organization of the design by project and functional areas and locations, including control panels or specific areas of a machine or other product and documentation creation including the creation of control panel drawings. With Electrical Schematic Designer connected to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, you can store your libraries and electrical system designs on the platform and take advantage of the platform’s collaboration and data management capabilities right from one convenient interface.

Now, getting back to FD01, to go a little deeper, you can create electrical assemblies that assign accessory parts to specific circuits or terminals and reference the connection positions within a connector or other component. This is particularly powerful and productive for documenting complete designs such as high pin-count connectors, sealed watertight connectors, fuse blocks, and other electrical assemblies, all without 3D modeling. Create these electrical assemblies as you progress with the schematic then save them for reuse in the next design.

In addition, the list of parts in these electrical assemblies can be integrated into the overall bill of materials (BOM) for the product, ensuring complete manufacturing documentation.

Build electrical assemblies within the schematic without needing to model parts in 3D. (Image: courtesy of Amphenol Aerospace connectors)

 

Watch the video below for a glimpse of how to take advantage of this new process.

Try this new feature out and let me know what you think on the 3DSwym Community or drop a question in the comments section here.

And stay tuned; there’s much more to come in electrical design enhancements this year, ranging from additional PDF output options to a new 3D electrical solution. See my last blog on some of the top features in Electrical Schematic Designer here.

Learn more about our electrical solutions here: https://www.solidworks.com/domain/solidworks-electrical.

Eric Leafquist

Eric Leafquist

Eric Leafquist is a Senior Product Manager at SOLIDWORKS involved with electrical and routed systems, along with other areas of the product. Prior to joining SOLIDWORKS, he held various positions in electro-mechanical product design and engineering in the chemical process industry. In his free time, he enjoys cycling on his Trek road bike (designed with SOLIDWORKS) for cancer research fundraising events.