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SolidWorks Routing Product Overview

ROUTED SYSTEMS DESIGN SOFTWARE AND FITTING LIBRARY

SolidWorks Routing software simplifies the design of all types of piping, tubing, and electrical cabling systems. The solution can save significant time in the design of machinery and equipment that contains pneumatic, hydraulic, or electrical subsystems. SolidWorks Routing includes a library of ready-made fittings that further reduces design time, as well as a component selection filter that eases compliance with standards.

In addition, for designers that need to detail electrical cable and harness routes for manufacturing, the SolidWorks Routing solution offers harness documentation capa­bilities that further enhance productivity in the design of electrical subsystems.

Design routed systems more quickly. SolidWorks Routing enables you to quickly and easily design pipe, tube, and electrical routes in your product designs. Key time­saving tools include:

• Intuitive creation and modification of routed systems, including drag-and-drop placement, automatic sizing of components (parts or assemblies), copying and mir­roring of routes, and autoinsertion of piping bends and elbows.

• Fast, easy 3D parametric modeling of tubing, piping, and electrical cable and harness systems within complex product or equipment designs.

• Autorouting of flexible tube, hose, and electrical cable and harness segments, along with rigid pipe, tube, and electrical conduit, directly or through mounting clips and hangers.

• Timesaving library of ready-made tubing, piping, and electrical cabling and harness­ing components.

• Automatic creation of engineering drawings and bills of materials with complete information, including cut lengths for pipe and tube routes.

• Specialized capabilities including creation of bend data files for CNC tube- and pipe-bending machines and efficient creation of penetration cuts involving pipes and tubes.

• Easy reuse of data created with electrical CAD software and other tools when creating new cable and harness route designs, importing data conveniently in Microsoft® Excel format.

Generate cable and harness manufacturing documentation easily. SolidWorks Routing provides designers of electrical and electronic systems with additional timesaving tools for generating cable and harness manufacturing documentation. Capabilities include:

• Flattening of 3D electrical cable and harness routes in order to create drawings and related documentation easily and efficiently.

• Creation of automatic reports including wire list, wire summary, harness bills of materials, and harness connection information.

• Ability to add electrical component data to flattened cable and harness designs in order to document the design more fully.

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