To make it easier to locate library components, you can filter the component list to only display components that have specific properties. When you open the CircuitWorks Component Library, the component list in the left pane contains columns for the ECAD Component Name, ECAD Part Number, and Device Class. To make it easier to find components, you can add custom properties, assign them to all or some components, and list the components with specific custom property values in the left pane of the CircuitWorks Component Library dialog box. You can delete a component from the Component Library and optionally its SOLIDWORKS model when it is no longer needed. You can edit the properties of a component in the Component Library.

You can use the CircuitWorks Component Library to view, edit, and create SOLIDWORKS component models. You can use the CircuitWorks Library Component Wizard to select SOLIDWORKS components to add to the library and to set them up for use with CircuitWorks. Use the Component Library to view and manage the component models that CircuitWorks has built. So, the next time you are looking for that hard to find part more than likely is has already been created and is available on 3D ContentCentral.If CircuitWorks cannot find a suitable component model in its library, then it uses the ECAD data to build a component model and adds it to the Component Library for future use. In personally using 3D ContentCentral I have found it is very easy to use there is variety of models and you can find anything from a AA Battery to Scooby-Doo.īoth the customer and user library are highly detailed models and a lot have multiple configurations and can even download then in different CAD formats and versions so they can be used anywhere. The best part is all of the models are FREE to download once you create an account. There is also a huge library of quality user supplied content as well that users have added to the site. 3D ContentCentral literally has millions of models, there are hundreds of different vendors who have their entire catalog of files. Once he went to the 3D ContentCentral site he was amazed at all the items he couldn’t find in any of his other searches.

I asked him if he had heard of 3D ContentCentral and being that he was a newer SOLIDWORKS user, he had not. I had a customer the other day who was looking for some standard parts to add to his SOLIDWORKS assemblies and the only information he could find was 2D data when doing internet searches.

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