Numbering configuration

All the wire numbering settings are available on three levels:

• Project configuration

• Wire style manager

• Specific settings for wires

Numbering options in Project settings

You can access project-level numbering settings from Mark tab of the Project Settings dialog box.

Available settings are:

Direction: Defines the direction of wire numbering. Available settings configure horizontal sequencing, vertical sequencing, and horizontal or vertical priority.

Wire style: Provides direct access to numbering manager options in the Wire style manager dialog box.

Numbering options in Wire style manager

Several numbering options are available from Wire Style Manager.

SOLIDWORKS Electrical allows you to number your wires in two ways:

- Numbering of the equipotentials, all the wires connected to the same mesh (connected together) use the same number.

- Wire numbering where each physical wire is numbered individually.

Numbering (Wire/Equipotential): Select the numbering mode, either Equipotential or Wire.

Display: Used to select the mode used to display numbers; either the number is placed in the middle of the segment or the number is placed on the first and the last segments of the mesh. In wire numbering, the One number per wire mode is not available.

Numbering options in Wire styles

1. • Numbering group properties

Wires are grouped in a Numbering group so that all wires that are part of a group use the same counter. This ensures numbering continuity in the wires even if they are different wire types.

The numbering group parameters can be accessed via its contextual menu Properties option.

Numbering group

The first setting is the number of the group. This number cannot be changed. Every group is associated to a "counter" that is an automatically incrementing counter. It also ensures that two wires in a numbering group cannot have the same number applied accidentally.

Wire numbering options

Numbering active: Allows you to activate or deactivate the numbering of the wires in the group.  

If you deactivate the option, none of the wires in the Group will be numbered.

Start numbering at: Allows you to define the first wire number applied to the group.  

For example, if you input the value 100, the first wire will be numbered 100, the second, 101 and so on.

Marks unique by : Allows you to manage the level of uniqueness of the wire marks. For example, if you set the level of uniqueness to Project, the counter will be continuous over the whole project. If you set it to Book, the counter will restart at the value of the Start numbering at parameter each time a change of book occurs.

Calculation of multiple wire order number

Allows you to define the wire numbering mode for the wires in this group.

The first mode will cause a different number for every wire conductor, the second mode will assign the same number for all wire conductors.

In this mode, it is advisable to add a prefix to the numbering formula, otherwise all the wire conductors will have the same value.

1. • Wire properties

The wire numbering parameters are available in the wire style properties.

The Equipotential formula and wire formula fields allow you to enter a formula composed of variables and character strings.

The list of available variables is different for the equipotential numbering and the wire numbering.

For further information on the possibilities of the Formula generator, please refer to the chapter entitled: The formula manager.