{"id":18103,"date":"2017-12-11T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=18103"},"modified":"2017-12-11T09:51:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T14:51:25","slug":"solidworks-electrical-data-reuse-capabilities-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2017\/12\/solidworks-electrical-data-reuse-capabilities-part-3.html","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS Electrical Data Reuse Capabilities: Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the continuation of\u00a0SOLIDWORKS Electrical Data Reuse capabilities (Part 2)<\/a><\/p>\n

SOLIDWORKS Electrical always helps the designers with the ease of automation and intelligence. There are different design re-use techniques in SOLIDWORKS electrical which cover all the essential needs of a designer, which are mentioned below:<\/p>\n

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  1. Macros<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Project macros<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Duplicate project<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. Snapshot<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Paste special<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In our previous blog, we discussed topic 3, duplicate project. Today, we wrap up our series by covering topics 4 and 5, Snapshot and Paste Special.<\/p>\n

    4. Snapshot:<\/strong><\/b><\/h1>\n

    The “Snapshot” feature is popular and very important. If we are working on a project and we want to save the project at some level, we can do it by a snapshot. Whenever we revise the project we can take the snapshot of the actual project before going ahead. These snapshots are projects which are saved and can be re-used as new projects whenever required.<\/p>\n

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    Figure\u00a012 –<\/strong>\u00a0Snapshot & Snapshot Manager<\/em><\/p>\n

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    Figure\u00a013<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0– Snapshot manager and manual snapshot<\/em><\/p>\n

    It has Event type as \u201cmanual\u201d because we manually created the snapshot.
    \nWe can set the days after which we want to create the snapshot of this project. See figure 15
    \nWe can check the box if we want the snapshot after each revision. See figure 15<\/p>\n

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    Figure\u00a014<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0– Snapshot after revision<\/em><\/p>\n

    Take snapshot after revision.<\/p>\n

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    Figure\u00a015<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0– Automatic snapshot<\/em><\/p>\n

    Now the event type is Revision Verified.<\/p>\n

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    Figure\u00a016<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Restore snapshots<\/em><\/p>\n

    We can restore any of the snapshots as a new project until the project is not deleted permanently.<\/p>\n

    5. Paste Special:<\/h1>\n

    We have the option to do a conventional copy and paste in SOLIDWORKS but going one step ahead, SOLIDWORKS can help to paste the copied items as \u201cpaste special\u201d. We can copy any symbol or circuit\u00a0by Ctrl+C and right click to find the paste special,<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0it is to be remembered that\u00a0we don\u2019t need to right click and paste special for macros<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0as it pops up directly as we drag the macro into the sheet. In paste special we can associate the cables, locations, symbols etc from copied circuit to the existing components, cables, location etc in our project.<\/p>\n

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    Figure\u00a017<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Paste special options<\/em><\/p>\n

    As we go ahead and press next we can associate the existing component, cables or location in the copied items to the existing project. We have associated cable W9 in our macro to the existing cable W1 in our project. See figure 18 & 19.<\/p>\n

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    Figure\u00a018<\/strong>\u00a0– Associate cable W9<\/em><\/p>\n

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    Figure\u00a019<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Associate to cable W1<\/em><\/p>\n

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