Charles manages electrical CAD application at Hawk Ridge Systems and is responsible for the operations of SOLIDWORKS Electrical presales engineering, implementation, consulting, training and post-sales support. He has over 20 years of CAD experience, as well as product design skills in mining equipment, medical devices, refrigeration systems and other fields.
For those that must develop complex electromechanical assemblies, you know that developing the wire harness in a 3D environment has had its challenges in the past. With the development of 3D modeling tools such as SOLIDWORKS, more companies have chosen to integrate their wire harness into their 3D assemblies. Doing this, however, adds complexity to the 3D assembly and comes with its own set of issues.
Enterprise Harness and Enterprise Layout from Landmark Technologies have simplified the process of designing and documenting your wire harness in a 3D environment.
Smart schematics are changing the way that we design and present ideas to the world. While traditional AutoCad and DraftSight functions may support basic ideas and conceptualizations, they simply don’t work “fast or smoothly enough” in a data-rich modern landscape. To function at the top level, you’ll need automation, quicker responses - smart schematics.
How often do you wait until you have a physical prototype in hand to start your wire harness design? Do you see revisions to your mechanical assemblies that force changes to your wire harnesses? Have you seen delays to product launches due to waiting for your wire harnesses to be designed and built? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you might want to start integrating your wire harness design into your SOLIDWORKS assemblies. This can be done in several ways.
