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Engineering Design with SOLIDWORKS® 2018 Top-Down and Sheet Metal Parts

CircuitW orks utilizes industry-

standard ID F files or PADS files,

and produces the 3D

SOLIDWORKS assembly of the

MOTHERBOARD. IDF and

PADS are common file formats

utilized in the PCB industry.

The MOTHERBOARD is fully

populated with the components at

the correct height. Your

colleagues use the

MOTHERBOARD assembly to

develop other areas of the BOX

assembly. An engineer develops

the wire harness from the SOLIDWORKS assembly developed with CircuitWorks

MOTHERBOARD to electrical Courtesy of Computer Aided Products, Inc.

components in the BOX.

A second engineer uses the 30 geometry from each electrical component on the

MOTHERBOARD to create a heat sink. As the project manager, you move components

that interfere with other mechanical parts, cables and or wire harness. You distribute the

updated information to your colleagues and

manufacturing partners.

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Pa .Edit Assembly: BOX
To save a virtual component to its own external file,

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right-click the component and select Save Part (in • ~ Hi Com nent (PartlABOX)

External File) or Save Assembly (in External file). Hidden Tree Items
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Rename Part
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right-click the virtual component and click Rename

Part.

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-;Q~ Remember, the Prompt user to select @Always use these default document templates

document template option is selected in Prompt user to select document template

System Options, Default Templates.

Assemblies

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[] Automatically generate names for referenced geometry

-;Q~ If you do not want to create any External !v'! Update component names when documents are replaced

references in your part, click Options, [t1, Do not create references external to the model

External References and check the Do not I v1 I Show "x" in feature tree for broken external references

create references external to the model box.

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