Take benefit from the TraceParts smart components for a time-saving design !
Free yourself from tedious tasks: these components possess the electrical information necessary to auto-connect.
Free yourself from tedious tasks: these components possess the electrical information necessary to auto-connect.
Find out how through a strategic partnership between Trace Software International and its sister company TraceParts, elecworks users can benefit from TraceParts technology and download smart parts coming with all electrical specifications for a direct and automated use in 3D in elecworks™.
elecworks™ for SolidWorks uses 3D models in a SolidWorks format. In order to get the full benefit from using elecworks™ a few additions need to be made to the models like rail fixing restrictions, connection points to realize auto-wiring, etc.
The commitment to technology made by TraceParts SA allows us to provide a great range of models. Elecworks Content Portal has a range of parts and models available for download that have been generated to let users get the most from elecworks™.
If you want to design this panel below by using plain SolidWorks, it is a tedious task. For every part you will need to create the constraint to allow the part to match the rail.
Then to allow the wiring, first of all, you will need, for every part, to insert manually all the connection point of the equipment. This means, for every point at least one or two minutes for a trained SolidWorks player. And you will need to know where the connection points on the parts are, and place the point manually if the part got enough details and surfaces to allow you to do it. This is a time-consuming and arduous process.
Trace Software and its sister company TraceParts have signed a strategic partnership to define the detailed specifications of all the way of coding the necessary properties to allow the use of an electrical part into any CAD system.
TraceParts’ technology can produce smart parts to handle specific applications, such as an electrical application. While implementing its catalog for publishing and together with manufacturers’ help, TraceParts team can handle electrical specifications on parts using TraceParts authoring tools. It’s done once, and save thousands of working hours to all TraceParts users worldwide.
Thanks to this partnership, elecworks’ parts come with the level of detail needed for real 3D electrical design such as:
When a part have the elecworks level of detail, it comes with all the constraints needed to put the part on the rail and to place two parts side by side.
This picture details what is a connection point :
You need at least three things: a point, an axis and a direction. But you can have many of those points on a part !
Once you are in elecworks Content Portal, you select the elecworks level of detail and then the parts come with all constraints and connection points. When you download this part, it comes with all necessary properties to work onelecworks™.
If you want to use a part which does not have the elecworks’ level of detail, then elecworks™ has a wizard which allow you to add those properties to the part).
The insertion of parts can be automated into an elecworks™ project using elecworks Content Portal back office and a TraceParts Web Service which is able to deliver a part using its part reference number.
TraceParts portal when downloading a part