SOLIDWORKS ELECTRICAL - Schematics of a DIY Drone

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概要

TLDRThe Go Engineer YouTube webinar covers the use of SolidWorks Electrical Schematic to create wiring schematics for a DIY drone. Presented by Eric Weber and Brandon Smith, the session outlines how SolidWorks Electrical aids electrical system design through schematic creation, part selection, and documentation. The tool offers a streamlined process for defining logical schematics, selecting and managing components, and automating documentation updates to ensure accuracy across the design. It facilitates collaborative work through a shared SQL database and provides functions to generate comprehensive reports and export them as smart PDFs. The webinar highlights project setup, drawing schematics, using macros for reuse of designs, creating single line diagrams, and exporting designs for documentation.

収穫

  • 🎨 Utilize SolidWorks Electrical for creating detailed wiring schematics.
  • 📚 Streamline component selection through an extensive library.
  • 🔄 Automate documentation processes across projects.
  • 📝 Create logical electrical schematics with accuracy.
  • 🌍 Enhance collaboration using shared databases.
  • 🔧 Adapt and reuse electrical components with macros.
  • 📁 Export smart PDFs for comprehensive project documentation.
  • 🏗️ Build single line diagrams for system overviews.
  • 💡 Save time with efficient project management tools.
  • 🔍 Navigate through electrical schematics easily with smart features.

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  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The session begins with an introduction by Eric Weber and Brandon Smith, presenting the focus on SolidWorks Electrical Schematic for a DIY drone project. It covers the general process electrical designers undergo in system design: schematic drawing, part selection, and system documentation, highlighting the challenges in accuracy and collaboration. SolidWorks Electrical is introduced as a solution for efficiency and project management.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Brandon Smith outlines the benefits of SolidWorks Electrical, including faster schematic creation, easy data reuse, rapid change management, and precise documentation. Eric Weber will demonstrate SolidWorks Electrical, starting with project creation, schematic design, a single line diagram, and exporting reports. The session promises a detailed walkthrough of key features and advantages.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Eric Weber demonstrates the initial steps in using SolidWorks Electrical, including creating a new project using a template, exploring project settings, and managing wire styles. He introduces the concept of locations as physical spots in the design, which aids in organizing and identifying where components are placed within a project, particularly in a drone layout.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Eric begins the schematic creation by inserting symbols for various components like motors and electronic speed controllers. The process involves selecting symbols, assigning manufacturer's parts, and defining locations within the project's framework, displaying how SolidWorks Electrical eases component organization and parts management.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    The demonstration continues with the addition of more components, such as the power distribution board and battery. Eric highlights SolidWorks Electrical's capabilities in managing and linking these components efficiently. He explains the use of project templates in retaining settings, wire styles, and equations for component naming and organization.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Eric showcases the connectivity of components, using multiple wires to establish connections between the drone's motor, electronic speed controllers, and power distribution board. The creation of macros for repetitive sections is also demonstrated, allowing easy replication of component setups across the project.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Eric introduces the concept of origin-destination arrows to manage connections between pages in the schematic layouts. He shows how these arrows facilitate navigation and maintain connectivity between various schematic sheets, highlighting the efficiency in handling complex electrical designs.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    Eric demonstrates SolidWorks Electrical's capability to generate detailed reports, including a bill of materials, wire lists, and connection details. He emphasizes the automated features that ensure consistency and accuracy across different documentation outputs, reducing manual errors.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:00

    The session proceeds to the creation of a single-line diagram, offering a visual overview of the drone's electrical system. Eric shows how components can be represented more pictorially in this format, maintaining logical connections derived from the detailed schematics, enhancing understanding for broader audiences.

  • 00:45:00 - 00:50:00

    Eric explains how to integrate non-symbolic components into the project, contributing to the bill of materials. This includes connectors and other hardware not represented in schematics but necessary for the project's completion, showcasing SolidWorks Electrical's comprehensive project management.

  • 00:50:00 - 00:59:12

    The webinar concludes with the demonstration of exporting projects to smart PDFs, which include bookmarks and hyperlinked components for easy navigation. Eric illustrates how these interactive documents make it easier for users to review and understand the project layout and connectivity, supporting efficient client presentations and documentation.

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ビデオQ&A

  • What is the purpose of SolidWorks Electrical?

    SolidWorks Electrical provides powerful schematic creation and project management tools that help designers work more efficiently and accurately.

  • What are the main benefits of using SolidWorks Electrical?

    The main benefits include faster schematic creation with fewer errors, easy data reuse, efficient change management, and accurate documentation.

  • How are components assigned in SolidWorks Electrical?

    Components are assigned by inserting symbols and choosing specific manufacturer's parts from a library.

  • What is a key feature of SolidWorks Electrical regarding documentation?

    SolidWorks Electrical automatically updates relevant documents when changes are made, ensuring consistency and accuracy across project documents.

  • How does SolidWorks Electrical help with project management?

    It features tools that keep track of project details and updates, managing changes across all relevant areas.

  • What is a unique capability of SolidWorks Electrical's wiring diagrams?

    The diagrams allow for creating location outlines to document where components are physically situated on a machine or equipment.

  • What functionalities are showcased in this webinar?

    The webinar showcases project creation, schematic creation, single line diagrams, and report generation with export functionalities like PDF.

  • How does SolidWorks Electrical ensure collaboration among designers?

    It uses a SQL database for quick data access and allows multiple users to collaborate on the same project.

  • Can you reuse components in SolidWorks Electrical?

    Yes, creating macros allows for reusing entire sections of wiring or components easily.

  • What type of format is used for output documents?

    Documents can be exported to PDFs with smart navigation features, showing cross-referenced components and other details.

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  • 00:00:00
    [Music]
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    welcome back to the go
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    engineer youtube channel i'm eric weber
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    in today's webinar we will cover how to
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    use solidworks electrical schematic to
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    show the wiring schematics of a diy
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    drone
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    before we get started make sure to hit
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    the subscribe button
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    if you haven't already with that here's
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    brandon smith
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    to start us off
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    okay we are just after the top of the
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    hour um
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    good morning good afternoon to those
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    that are
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    that are able to join today's
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    presentation on solidworks
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    electrical schematics um
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    my name is brandon smith i am the
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    electrical sales specialist with go
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    engineer
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    and i have presenting today eric weber
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    one of our senior application engineers
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    who will be uh
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    presenting on solidworks electrical
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    so before we start talking about
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    solidworks electrical specifically
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    i'd like to share with you what we've
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    observed over the past couple of years
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    in the industry
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    we've seen that electrical designers
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    regardless of their company size or
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    product
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    products designed generally follow a
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    three-step process in the electrical
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    system design
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    first they draw their schematic to
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    establish the logical definition
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    then they select parts from online or
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    printed catalogs and
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    draw any special cables or other
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    components needed
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    for needing fabrication and you know
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    next
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    typically they have to document their
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    system in a way that's useful for
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    different audiences right
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    for example a designer might scan
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    through their drawing to
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    conduct a build construct a bill of
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    material or
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    document each wire connection to make a
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    from two list
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    and this typically results in many
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    manually created spreadsheets
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    you know wireless billing materials and
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    other reports
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    that need to be completed before the end
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    of the project and finally since
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    you know the spreadsheet are in no way
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    linked to the cab files
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    all documents must be regularly audited
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    the problem of ensuring these documents
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    are accurate becomes
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    exponentially more complex as more
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    designers collaborate on the project
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    and really you know the purpose of
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    solidworks electrical is twofold
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    with a powerful schematic creation tool
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    solidworks electrical helps designers
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    work more efficiently
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    solidworks electrical features
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    time-saving tools that help designers
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    get their jobs done
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    faster and also it includes powerful
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    project
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    management tools that keep track of all
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    project details and updates
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    so any changes made in one area of a
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    project
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    will be reflected in other relevant
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    areas for example
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    if we were if we were to substitute a
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    switch
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    on a schematic for an alternate part any
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    reference to that switch in the bill of
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    materials
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    the wiring lists or other documentations
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    will reflect that change
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    so effectively we're fully automated the
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    time-consuming
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    uh an error-prone process of creating
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    updating and checking many
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    separate project documents now today's
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    demonstration that eric will be uh
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    presenting to us has uh
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    he will show us the key benefits of
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    solidworks electrical
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    um primarily faster schematic creation
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    with fewer errors
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    additionally the easy data reuse and
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    new content set up as well as rapid
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    change management
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    and finally professional and accurate
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    final documentation
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    so with that said i'm going to turn
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    things over to eric weber
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    who's going to be presenting for us
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    today we do have the
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    chat and question box up if we time
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    permitting we will answer those
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    questions otherwise follow up with an
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    email to answer
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    answer any questions that may come up
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    thank you for your time and eric take it
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    away
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    good morning and good afternoon everyone
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    as brandon said my name is eric webber
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    and today i'll be showing solidworks
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    electrical
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    uh so we'll we'll do a few different
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    things we will
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    start with creating a project
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    and then creating a couple of schematics
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    and showing you
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    the uh process of of doing that and then
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    lastly we'll do a
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    single line diagram to kind of show a uh
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    summary of
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    of what uh our our whole system looks
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    like
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    and then we'll we'll talk a little bit
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    about reporting and
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    showing how to export these to pdfs and
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    and kind of
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    looking at uh our smart pdf tool
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    so here i'm i'm just starting out in
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    solidworks electrical
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    uh and when i go to my projects manager
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    you see i
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    i've i've got all of my prod uh projects
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    that
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    have previously been worked on um and
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    then from here i can create a new
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    document
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    now the documents always start with a
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    a project template so here i've got my
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    drone project template
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    selected so when i hit okay
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    i can enter in any information that's
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    that's relevant
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    to my um my project here so
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    i can just first give this a
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    name so we'll just call it drone
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    schematic
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    demo and i can also
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    you know fill in any information that
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    would be useful for me so you'll see
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    that electrical has a lot of text boxes
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    for
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    uh for data that that we could use in
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    different locations whether that's in
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    our title block
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    or uh with our next to our symbols so we
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    can
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    control where this information appears
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    control what information we want to use
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    so here on the the project properties
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    i'm
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    there's there's really not a ton that
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    i'm going to use today but this
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    is something that that you'll notice in
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    in a lot of these menus so here i've
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    just got the description
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    in there as drone schematic um so once i
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    hit okay it will create our project
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    so solidworks electrical works on a sql
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    database so um it's it's very fast
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    uh in in easily searchable
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    and also allows us to collaborate with
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    others so
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    you know if if i make a change to
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    something that that gets updated in the
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    sql database in the project
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    and then if another user needs to come
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    in and uh
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    and and make changes or or look at the
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    documents they can do that as
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    well um and and just connect to the same
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    sql
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    database and same project
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    so once i create a project there are
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    several things that that get brought in
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    from our project template okay
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    so a lot of these are are different
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    options that we have
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    so when you first go through and set up
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    a project template
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    you can go through and and create all of
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    these or
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    enter in all of your settings and then
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    equations for
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    you know how things get labeled how
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    things are marked
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    um you know we'll see later what my wire
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    label kind of looks like here
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    um different equations for how the wires
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    get numbered and how
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    our different components get get named
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    kind of automatically so a lot of these
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    settings again are stored in the
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    document
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    template and then also
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    you know a big one is our wire style so
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    you'll see
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    that i've got a specific set of wires
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    here that i use
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    for these drone projects um so so
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    these wire styles are all saved in the
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    project template that allow me
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    you know access to those wires
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    so we'll get started here on this
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    project so
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    the first thing i'm going to do is is
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    set up some locations so locations are
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    actual physical locations on
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    um you know on your machine or
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    in this case the drone that that we may
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    want to
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    uh document to help you know find where
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    different components are when actually
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    doing the physical wiring
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    um again this is something that's
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    optional a lot of this stuff is optional
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    you use what you want to but i wanted to
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    quick show
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    uh what this looks like so um what i'm
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    going to do is create a new top level
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    location so it
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    gives us an automatic location mark
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    which is
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    l2 and then i can give it a name and
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    we'll just call this
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    arm okay so you know the the initial one
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    was drone body
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    and then i have my arm location now on
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    the drone body we have some sub
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    locations so i can
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    choose that and then just say create
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    several locations and i'm actually going
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    to create three
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    sub locations so i can hit ok there so
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    now we have
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    you know an l1 l1 sublocation l1 l2
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    and so on so if i edit this property now
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    i can give this
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    i can give this a description so we'll
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    call this one bottom plate
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    and then the next one we'll call middle
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    and lastly our top plate so again the
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    the body itself has some some different
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    sub locations
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    all right so with those done um now i
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    can
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    create my start creating my drawing so
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    to create a schematic all we need to do
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    is right click on our book here
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    and just say new scheme and you see here
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    that it creates a new sheet now if i
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    open this up
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    you can kind of see the the title block
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    that that was stored in the project
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    template
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    is is pulled up um again that can be
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    mapped
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    you know you can use some default uh
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    title blocks
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    for different types of drawings uh in
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    this case
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    we're just kind of using a blank sheet
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    with a little bit of text
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    uh down below now we're gonna set a
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    a property here for this first sheet to
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    kind of give it a name so i'm gonna
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    call this one uh we're just gonna call
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    this
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    motor control
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    and when i do that you'll see it it
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    gives a name here for us
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    so now i'm going gonna just start
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    inserting my symbols so typically i like
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    to work where i insert all my symbols
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    and then
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    draw wires uh you can there there's a
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    lot of flexibility with
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    with solidworks electrical so if if you
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    like to insert symbols draw some wires
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    you can certainly do that there's
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    there's a lot of flexibility
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    um when when working with the project
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    so what i'm going to do is first kind of
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    insert all of my symbols so when i say
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    insert symbol
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    it sort of remembers the last one i've
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    used
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    but when you click other symbol here
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    it brings us into kind of a search mode
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    so we can
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    kind of search by classification or we
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    can use our search filters
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    so the first thing i'm going to do is is
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    insert uh my motor symbol now my motor
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    here specifically is
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    is a dc motor so i can come out and find
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    what i want
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    and then just hit select so now i'm
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    ready to place this
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    so electrical works on a snap
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    so so as i move this along you can see
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    we can snap
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    our our symbols in place which allows us
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    to draw
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    the wire connections uh for that so if i
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    just kind of zoom in here and and i can
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    place this
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    um symbol but with a left click you'll
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    see that it
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    uh brings me into my symbol properties
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    so the first thing you'll notice is it
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    automatically gets a root
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    for the component name which is m in
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    this case and then the first
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    number available which is m1
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    we can pick the location here um so
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    you know here it it will uh put it on
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    the drone body
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    uh page but in this case we want to put
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    it in the arm location
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    uh and then we can go ahead and
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    um assign a specific manufacturer's part
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    so
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    a lot of the symbols in electrical are
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    very are are
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    general uh in in
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    the fact that we can you know we may use
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    many we may use the same um
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    uh symbol motor symbol for example in
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    this case
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    but it may represent many many different
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    types of manufacturers parts so
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    we we also have a library full of
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    manufactured parts
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    that we can customize that we can enter
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    in so
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    when we apply a general symbol we also
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    want to
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    signify which exact manufacturer part
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    that is so
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    i can search here as well um and again
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    it
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    it sort of starts filtering based on the
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    symbol that i inserted so if i just hit
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    search it
  • 00:13:19
    it actually just gives me some a list of
  • 00:13:22
    dc motors so in this case i want this
  • 00:13:24
    one
  • 00:13:24
    um and i can just hit add now over here
  • 00:13:28
    um we see that that our our states are
  • 00:13:31
    all green this
  • 00:13:32
    this just means that the symbol that i
  • 00:13:34
    used has the same
  • 00:13:36
    type of circuit as our manufacturer part
  • 00:13:38
    okay so there's a
  • 00:13:40
    check here to make sure that the symbol
  • 00:13:42
    you're using
  • 00:13:43
    um matches you know that of the
  • 00:13:45
    manufacturer's part so
  • 00:13:46
    you know everything is green there so if
  • 00:13:48
    i hit select
  • 00:13:50
    and then okay it inserts that uh
  • 00:13:53
    specific motor
  • 00:13:55
    okay uh so
  • 00:13:58
    so there again you can see if i just
  • 00:14:00
    exit out of here you can see
  • 00:14:02
    that i've got the manufacturer i have
  • 00:14:03
    the route the manufacturer and then also
  • 00:14:05
    a description here and then what my
  • 00:14:08
    connection points are labeled so these
  • 00:14:09
    red dots are connection points that will
  • 00:14:11
    draw
  • 00:14:12
    wires to and from uh one thing i
  • 00:14:16
    actually forgot to do was uh set this
  • 00:14:18
    uh actually to my arm location so that's
  • 00:14:21
    uh so i'm gonna set this drawing sheet
  • 00:14:24
    to the arm location
  • 00:14:25
    um and then uh we'll just change
  • 00:14:28
    the the location here so now you see
  • 00:14:31
    that the location of this sheet is l2 so
  • 00:14:33
    when i insert symbols now it will
  • 00:14:36
    automatically put those symbols in that
  • 00:14:38
    location for us
  • 00:14:40
    all right so then i'm next going to do a
  • 00:14:43
    insert
  • 00:14:44
    an electronic speed controller so these
  • 00:14:46
    are
  • 00:14:47
    under our electronic component
  • 00:14:49
    classification so if i hit okay there
  • 00:14:51
    you'll see that i have this symbol
  • 00:14:54
    that i've created so this is a custom
  • 00:14:56
    symbol that i i created and it's
  • 00:14:58
    it's uh specific you know to to
  • 00:15:01
    our uh you know drone projects so
  • 00:15:04
    um i can actually rotate that and
  • 00:15:08
    just kind of put it in line with with
  • 00:15:10
    our motor so we can draw
  • 00:15:11
    you know nice straight wires for that so
  • 00:15:13
    if i
  • 00:15:14
    click there you can see that my route
  • 00:15:18
    turns into e i want to actually
  • 00:15:21
    edit that so i can call this esc for
  • 00:15:24
    electronic speed controller
  • 00:15:26
    and here now you notice that it it goes
  • 00:15:28
    into that arm location automatically
  • 00:15:32
    now again once we insert a symbol we
  • 00:15:34
    want to assign a specific manufacturer's
  • 00:15:36
    part so here you see these
  • 00:15:38
    these speed controllers have you know a
  • 00:15:40
    couple of circuits for power supply and
  • 00:15:42
    then
  • 00:15:43
    um circuits uh to connect to the motor
  • 00:15:46
    essentially so if i do a search here now
  • 00:15:50
    again it searches our manufacturer part
  • 00:15:53
    library for any
  • 00:15:55
    thing that's that has this uh motor
  • 00:15:57
    classification
  • 00:16:00
    so in this case i want to grab my
  • 00:16:03
    speed controller and then i can you know
  • 00:16:06
    add that to the symbol and there
  • 00:16:08
    you see that it has our five different
  • 00:16:10
    circuits with
  • 00:16:11
    um you know three connection point uh
  • 00:16:14
    two connection points per circuit here
  • 00:16:16
    and then a single one for the power
  • 00:16:18
    supply
  • 00:16:19
    or uh two circuits for the power supply
  • 00:16:22
    so if i hit select there
  • 00:16:24
    and hit okay you can see again that that
  • 00:16:26
    symbol
  • 00:16:27
    um is brought in um and we get that
  • 00:16:30
    that information with our connection
  • 00:16:32
    points labeled
  • 00:16:34
    uh and then next i'm gonna insert our
  • 00:16:37
    power distribution board so this is
  • 00:16:39
    something that
  • 00:16:40
    um that distributes power to
  • 00:16:44
    to each of our our motors um so i can
  • 00:16:48
    you know drop this in here as well kind
  • 00:16:50
    of keep it in line
  • 00:16:52
    with our um with our
  • 00:16:56
    uh speed controller circuits and then
  • 00:17:00
    if i jump over to manufacturer sports
  • 00:17:02
    notice that my
  • 00:17:03
    my manufacturer part is already assigned
  • 00:17:05
    so when you have
  • 00:17:07
    uh part specific symbols like i do in
  • 00:17:10
    this case i have this complex symbol
  • 00:17:11
    with
  • 00:17:12
    with a uh you know a complex list
  • 00:17:15
    of of circuits we can actually take a
  • 00:17:18
    symbol and assign
  • 00:17:19
    uh pre-assign a manufacturer's part to
  • 00:17:22
    that so there i
  • 00:17:23
    that that's what i've done here so you
  • 00:17:25
    can see that there's really no searching
  • 00:17:27
    i need to do at this point
  • 00:17:29
    so if i hit okay now you can see that
  • 00:17:32
    we've got
  • 00:17:34
    our distribution board in there as well
  • 00:17:39
    okay so then the next thing i need to
  • 00:17:41
    insert is
  • 00:17:42
    is what we call the power module so this
  • 00:17:44
    this basically
  • 00:17:46
    um connects our distribution board to
  • 00:17:49
    our battery
  • 00:17:51
    so i can uh insert this
  • 00:17:54
    and we'll call this one pm for power
  • 00:17:57
    module
  • 00:17:58
    and then click ok and there you see
  • 00:18:02
    again that one had a component are
  • 00:18:05
    already assigned to it so you see the
  • 00:18:07
    information there
  • 00:18:08
    and then lastly for this sheet we'll put
  • 00:18:11
    in our
  • 00:18:13
    battery so again i'm going to use just a
  • 00:18:15
    general symbol so if i go to power
  • 00:18:17
    supplies
  • 00:18:19
    and you know choose choose a battery
  • 00:18:22
    symbol
  • 00:18:23
    we can we can do that and i'll just drop
  • 00:18:25
    the battery
  • 00:18:26
    you know over here somewhere to give me
  • 00:18:28
    some space
  • 00:18:30
    so in this case again i'm using a
  • 00:18:32
    general symbol so
  • 00:18:33
    i i want to assign a manufacturer's part
  • 00:18:38
    and then if i search you can see i've
  • 00:18:39
    got this lithium polymer battery that
  • 00:18:42
    that has been created as well so i can
  • 00:18:45
    hit okay there
  • 00:18:47
    now again these symbols can have you
  • 00:18:50
    know as much
  • 00:18:51
    text as you want so as part of
  • 00:18:54
    you know creating manufacturers parts we
  • 00:18:56
    can include things like manufacturers
  • 00:18:58
    and descriptions and
  • 00:18:59
    and that sort of stuff and and we you
  • 00:19:01
    know assign those attributes to our
  • 00:19:03
    different
  • 00:19:03
    um to our different symbols here
  • 00:19:07
    uh so at this point i'm going to go
  • 00:19:10
    ahead
  • 00:19:11
    and start drawing some wires here
  • 00:19:15
    [Music]
  • 00:19:16
    excuse me actually before that we'll
  • 00:19:18
    we'll actually create what we call
  • 00:19:19
    location outline so
  • 00:19:21
    recall that you know i set my location
  • 00:19:23
    to
  • 00:19:24
    uh to our our arm location but the power
  • 00:19:28
    distribution power module and battery
  • 00:19:30
    are actually located in a different
  • 00:19:32
    location
  • 00:19:33
    so i can create what's called the
  • 00:19:34
    location outline
  • 00:19:36
    that allows me to um you know
  • 00:19:40
    signify where these are are located so
  • 00:19:42
    if i just gather
  • 00:19:44
    all of these into a location outline
  • 00:19:46
    these all actually sit on my bottom
  • 00:19:48
    plate
  • 00:19:50
    sub location so when i select that
  • 00:19:53
    it gives me a a message saying do you
  • 00:19:56
    want to change those component locations
  • 00:19:58
    so again i'm going to say yes
  • 00:20:00
    and you know what that does is it takes
  • 00:20:04
    it takes each component and actually
  • 00:20:06
    moves them to
  • 00:20:08
    that location when i when i do that so
  • 00:20:10
    now if we kind of expand
  • 00:20:11
    our components list you'll see that i
  • 00:20:14
    have the motor and the electronic speed
  • 00:20:16
    controller on my arm
  • 00:20:18
    and then if i look at the location uh of
  • 00:20:20
    the battery
  • 00:20:21
    the the um the distribution board and
  • 00:20:25
    the power module those are all located
  • 00:20:27
    on a uh in the on the bottom plate there
  • 00:20:34
    all right so then next we we will uh
  • 00:20:38
    draw our wires here so first we'll we'll
  • 00:20:41
    just draw some wires
  • 00:20:42
    between the motor and the electronic
  • 00:20:44
    speed controllers so
  • 00:20:45
    there's a few different ways to do this
  • 00:20:47
    one is to draw multiple wires
  • 00:20:49
    and the other is to draw you know single
  • 00:20:51
    wire so in this case
  • 00:20:53
    i'm going to grab my
  • 00:20:56
    my wires here we're going to use a 14
  • 00:21:00
    gauge wire
  • 00:21:02
    and notice that it's a grouping of three
  • 00:21:03
    wires we have
  • 00:21:05
    white black and red so i'm just going to
  • 00:21:07
    select that wire style
  • 00:21:09
    and and then i just
  • 00:21:13
    click on this connection point and bring
  • 00:21:14
    this across to the esc
  • 00:21:16
    click again and there you see i've got
  • 00:21:18
    my wires now in the middle here you see
  • 00:21:21
    that the wire label automatically showed
  • 00:21:23
    up
  • 00:21:24
    when we when we number each for our
  • 00:21:26
    wires we'll see that those boxes will
  • 00:21:28
    get filled in
  • 00:21:30
    the wire labels are fully customizable
  • 00:21:32
    so we can have this
  • 00:21:33
    kind of you know show us a color if we
  • 00:21:35
    want in this case it's showing the gauge
  • 00:21:38
    of each wire so that's why you see the
  • 00:21:40
    14
  • 00:21:41
    there uh and then
  • 00:21:44
    we'll uh next add uh our
  • 00:21:49
    uh wires that go to the distribution
  • 00:21:53
    board
  • 00:21:53
    so i'm gonna actually grab some 18 gauge
  • 00:21:56
    wire for this
  • 00:21:58
    and again it's it's just a white black
  • 00:22:01
    red
  • 00:22:02
    so i'm gonna bring this over here and
  • 00:22:04
    and not quite connect it right now
  • 00:22:08
    because i'm gonna actually create a
  • 00:22:10
    macro because i need to make three more
  • 00:22:12
    of these
  • 00:22:12
    setups so i'll just show you how to
  • 00:22:14
    create a macro here
  • 00:22:16
    shortly and then lastly we're going to
  • 00:22:20
    use um
  • 00:22:23
    our power
  • 00:22:26
    the 18 gauge power here
  • 00:22:30
    and we can hit select
  • 00:22:33
    and here we're just going to do our
  • 00:22:35
    positive
  • 00:22:36
    [Music]
  • 00:22:38
    and our negative
  • 00:22:42
    oh we want to invert that so i'm going
  • 00:22:45
    to actually invert the phase so our
  • 00:22:47
    our uh black is positive and and red is
  • 00:22:50
    negative in this case okay
  • 00:22:54
    so there we've got a uh
  • 00:22:58
    you know basically the the components
  • 00:23:00
    that go on the arm of the drone
  • 00:23:02
    um so now what i want to do is uh create
  • 00:23:05
    a
  • 00:23:06
    um create a a macro for this so actually
  • 00:23:09
    i've got this
  • 00:23:10
    this one in here let me just delete this
  • 00:23:12
    and and i'll show you how to recreate it
  • 00:23:14
    so if i just box select everything here
  • 00:23:18
    you see that it selects the
  • 00:23:19
    the symbols and the and our wires and
  • 00:23:23
    all i have to do is
  • 00:23:24
    is drag and drop this into my
  • 00:23:28
    [Music]
  • 00:23:29
    into my macros window and then
  • 00:23:33
    i can give it a name
  • 00:23:37
    and we can hit okay so so once i do this
  • 00:23:39
    you see that it gets stored up in my
  • 00:23:41
    panel here
  • 00:23:43
    and then i can sort of reuse this as
  • 00:23:45
    needed so if i just drag and drop
  • 00:23:47
    now um you can see that
  • 00:23:50
    it it does this this paste special so
  • 00:23:54
    when we paste in a macro there's some
  • 00:23:57
    things that
  • 00:23:58
    we may want to change so in this case uh
  • 00:24:01
    you know the the stuff that's been
  • 00:24:03
    assigned to these symbols and wires are
  • 00:24:05
    our locations so we're going to just say
  • 00:24:07
    keep the same location
  • 00:24:09
    remove wire numbers we don't actually
  • 00:24:11
    have any yet so that that doesn't matter
  • 00:24:13
    um component we're actually going to
  • 00:24:15
    create two new marks so we're going to
  • 00:24:17
    get
  • 00:24:18
    m2 in in esc 2 when i do this
  • 00:24:21
    and then the wire styles we're just
  • 00:24:22
    going to keep the same wire style so
  • 00:24:25
    you know you can see that the location 2
  • 00:24:28
    is associated
  • 00:24:30
    and the the it would create
  • 00:24:33
    new uh wire numbers again we don't have
  • 00:24:36
    those yet
  • 00:24:37
    the uh the location is associated and
  • 00:24:40
    then
  • 00:24:40
    um all of our wire styles are going to
  • 00:24:42
    be the same so once i hit finish here
  • 00:24:45
    you'll see what happens it actually
  • 00:24:47
    created
  • 00:24:48
    m2 and esc 2 and assign those
  • 00:24:51
    manufacturer parts for us automatically
  • 00:24:54
    [Music]
  • 00:24:57
    actually i inserted that a little
  • 00:25:01
    off-center so let me
  • 00:25:02
    fix that
  • 00:25:06
    i'm just going to move this over a notch
  • 00:25:10
    okay and then i'll i'll
  • 00:25:14
    next just kind of insert these these
  • 00:25:16
    next ones here
  • 00:25:19
    uh and i can just hit finish i don't
  • 00:25:21
    need to go through that so now i have m3
  • 00:25:23
    and esc3
  • 00:25:24
    and then i'll grab this last one here
  • 00:25:28
    and drop that into place all right so
  • 00:25:32
    now we have everything um you know
  • 00:25:35
    that's that's related to the arm there
  • 00:25:37
    but now i need to make these connections
  • 00:25:39
    so i'm gonna go ahead
  • 00:25:41
    and just do a modify and stretch so
  • 00:25:44
    what we want to do is is just stretch
  • 00:25:47
    these these wires and make them connect
  • 00:25:49
    so
  • 00:25:50
    um we've got our points there and then i
  • 00:25:52
    can just
  • 00:25:54
    you know make that connection and now
  • 00:25:56
    you see that the connection's there
  • 00:25:57
    because my wire labels
  • 00:25:59
    uh pop in there as well
  • 00:26:02
    okay um and then we
  • 00:26:05
    we also need to um finish off
  • 00:26:09
    the the wires from the distribution
  • 00:26:11
    board so we're gonna go ahead
  • 00:26:13
    and draw um just some single wires in
  • 00:26:16
    here so i'm gonna
  • 00:26:17
    first do a green wire and i can bring
  • 00:26:20
    that out
  • 00:26:21
    and i'm not going to connect it to
  • 00:26:22
    anything right now so we'll do green
  • 00:26:25
    and then orange white and yellow
  • 00:26:28
    so i'll grab orange for these next
  • 00:26:31
    [Music]
  • 00:26:36
    connections
  • 00:26:40
    and
  • 00:26:44
    yellow here
  • 00:26:48
    and then we'll also
  • 00:26:50
    [Music]
  • 00:26:51
    bring in our power wires so
  • 00:26:54
    um this time we're gonna do
  • 00:26:58
    the 18 gauge power
  • 00:27:01
    [Music]
  • 00:27:04
    and
  • 00:27:09
    there we've got that okay
  • 00:27:12
    so now we are ready to
  • 00:27:16
    um connect the the power from the power
  • 00:27:20
    module to the
  • 00:27:22
    power distribution board so again we'll
  • 00:27:24
    use for
  • 00:27:25
    for this one we're going to use our 13
  • 00:27:27
    gauge wires
  • 00:27:29
    and then i can you know now draw this in
  • 00:27:32
    here
  • 00:27:37
    make sure i turn turn this one on so
  • 00:27:40
    we've got that
  • 00:27:42
    and then i actually to make sure my plus
  • 00:27:45
    goes to plus i need to just hit the
  • 00:27:46
    space spacebar and actually invert these
  • 00:27:48
    so
  • 00:27:50
    these connect up to the symbol the way
  • 00:27:52
    we want it to
  • 00:27:55
    and then we'll do the same thing down
  • 00:27:57
    here for
  • 00:27:58
    our to connect this to the battery
  • 00:28:02
    so in this case i'm just going to draw
  • 00:28:04
    the the red wire first
  • 00:28:10
    and then we can draw in the black wire
  • 00:28:13
    so i'm just going to pick the black wire
  • 00:28:14
    from this grouping
  • 00:28:20
    okay now
  • 00:28:23
    you'll notice that when i do this again
  • 00:28:26
    some of these segments get the the label
  • 00:28:28
    and perhaps i don't
  • 00:28:30
    want it on these short segments so i'm
  • 00:28:31
    i'm able to actually
  • 00:28:33
    um kind of multi-select these and then
  • 00:28:36
    just right-click and
  • 00:28:37
    say hide wire labels so we can you know
  • 00:28:40
    hide those where
  • 00:28:41
    where we don't want them and then
  • 00:28:45
    next we will create
  • 00:28:48
    uh create the power module we're going
  • 00:28:51
    to run this out to the
  • 00:28:53
    flight controller eventually so i'm
  • 00:28:55
    going to grab
  • 00:28:56
    um uh we're gonna grab this
  • 00:29:00
    um this grouping here and i'm gonna
  • 00:29:05
    actually change
  • 00:29:06
    change the spacing to 0.75
  • 00:29:09
    so when i do that you'll see that the uh
  • 00:29:14
    that the um
  • 00:29:17
    the the wires are then
  • 00:29:21
    um split a little bit further so they
  • 00:29:24
    they go down to the next connection
  • 00:29:26
    point and then lastly we're going to do
  • 00:29:28
    a couple of control wires so i'm going
  • 00:29:30
    to do
  • 00:29:31
    a black wire now when i choose a single
  • 00:29:33
    wire
  • 00:29:35
    when when we call a draw single wire
  • 00:29:37
    that means draw a single wire style we
  • 00:29:39
    can actually draw
  • 00:29:40
    multiple of these at the same time
  • 00:29:44
    and so when i have it selected as two
  • 00:29:46
    you see that those black wires come in
  • 00:29:48
    there as well
  • 00:29:50
    or i i can draw those two at the same
  • 00:29:53
    time
  • 00:29:57
    so at this point i'll go ahead and just
  • 00:29:58
    number the wires just to kind of see
  • 00:30:00
    what that process is so all i need to do
  • 00:30:02
    is click
  • 00:30:03
    number new wires and then i hit ok
  • 00:30:06
    and you see that now it's numbered these
  • 00:30:09
    wires
  • 00:30:10
    again we can have more complex numbering
  • 00:30:12
    than this we
  • 00:30:13
    you know here i just have a simple one
  • 00:30:15
    two three four
  • 00:30:16
    uh we could we could uh put in equations
  • 00:30:20
    that include the rows and columns if
  • 00:30:22
    we have our project set up that way but
  • 00:30:25
    in this case
  • 00:30:26
    you know it's just going uh left to
  • 00:30:28
    right and then top to bottom so
  • 00:30:30
    you see here one and two and then it
  • 00:30:32
    goes down a row three four
  • 00:30:34
    five six seven eight um and then it goes
  • 00:30:37
    to nine
  • 00:30:37
    ten so as we work our way through this
  • 00:30:40
    you see that everything that's connected
  • 00:30:42
    to something has a wire number
  • 00:30:44
    now these these uh wires here kind of on
  • 00:30:46
    the right side aren't connected to
  • 00:30:48
    anything yet so
  • 00:30:50
    we need to do that or create the
  • 00:30:53
    second schematic and then we'll we'll
  • 00:30:54
    bring those across
  • 00:30:56
    so i'm going to go ahead and create a
  • 00:30:57
    new schematic
  • 00:31:01
    and then i can open that up
  • 00:31:04
    and then i will uh add the properties
  • 00:31:07
    here so this is going to be our drone
  • 00:31:09
    body
  • 00:31:10
    uh and then i can give this uh
  • 00:31:13
    a description so this will
  • 00:31:21
    i'll just call this flight controller or
  • 00:31:23
    autopilot
  • 00:31:29
    and i can click ok so that changes
  • 00:31:32
    uh or that gives our our drawing a name
  • 00:31:36
    um so now i'm gonna insert the symbols
  • 00:31:37
    for this and
  • 00:31:39
    this uh again are some pretty custom
  • 00:31:42
    symbols so when i go to my schematic
  • 00:31:44
    here i'm going to find
  • 00:31:46
    the different symbols that i need so
  • 00:31:48
    again these are under electronic
  • 00:31:50
    components
  • 00:31:51
    and there there's a few different things
  • 00:31:54
    i want to want to put in here
  • 00:31:56
    so the first is our autopilot we'll
  • 00:31:59
    rotate that
  • 00:32:01
    and i can just sort of place that you
  • 00:32:04
    know somewhere
  • 00:32:05
    [Music]
  • 00:32:07
    down here just kind of knowing what i
  • 00:32:08
    need to bring in there so
  • 00:32:11
    we can call this fc for flight
  • 00:32:14
    controller
  • 00:32:16
    and again the manufacturer part is is
  • 00:32:18
    already assigned because
  • 00:32:20
    this is a pretty custom symbol uh
  • 00:32:23
    and then next we're gonna put in the uh
  • 00:32:27
    the rc receiver so i can grab that
  • 00:32:30
    symbol
  • 00:32:31
    um orient that the right way
  • 00:32:34
    and we can drop this um
  • 00:32:37
    into place and i'm going to leave a lot
  • 00:32:39
    of room here because some of these
  • 00:32:41
    these wearers get
  • 00:32:46
    they we get a lot of crossing going on
  • 00:32:48
    so i'm just going to leave myself some
  • 00:32:50
    room so
  • 00:32:51
    there if i give it a name again the
  • 00:32:54
    manufacturer part is already
  • 00:32:56
    signed because i've done that in the
  • 00:32:57
    symbol so there we we've got that
  • 00:33:00
    and then lastly i'm going to insert my
  • 00:33:02
    gps symbol
  • 00:33:04
    um which is again under
  • 00:33:08
    uh is under my
  • 00:33:11
    my sensors here so i'll bring that over
  • 00:33:14
    and then again i'll just give it some
  • 00:33:16
    space here
  • 00:33:18
    and place that so i can give this a name
  • 00:33:22
    and you know we we can see our
  • 00:33:25
    our manufacturer part once again is
  • 00:33:28
    assigned there
  • 00:33:29
    okay so
  • 00:33:33
    you know at this point i i'm going to
  • 00:33:35
    draw in the remaining wires so the
  • 00:33:38
    first thing uh i'm going to do is is
  • 00:33:41
    bring in
  • 00:33:42
    my wires from our uh
  • 00:33:46
    our previous sheet so i can just draw
  • 00:33:48
    those out
  • 00:33:50
    and then we'll draw this single wire
  • 00:33:52
    style
  • 00:33:53
    i'll do my black wires and then
  • 00:33:57
    the colored wires connect to our outputs
  • 00:34:00
    down here so
  • 00:34:02
    i'll go ahead and uh
  • 00:34:05
    bring those in here so those are
  • 00:34:09
    going to be our 18 gauge single wire
  • 00:34:12
    so we'll grab first we'll do
  • 00:34:16
    our yellow wire
  • 00:34:23
    and that goes to our four row
  • 00:34:27
    got to make sure i bring this back down
  • 00:34:31
    to a single wire
  • 00:34:33
    and then that's going to go to that
  • 00:34:35
    circuit
  • 00:34:36
    and then we'll do
  • 00:34:39
    our white wire
  • 00:34:50
    and then orange
  • 00:34:56
    and finally the green wire
  • 00:35:05
    okay and then over here where the power
  • 00:35:09
    um where the power is controlled we'll
  • 00:35:12
    bring in our 18 gauge
  • 00:35:17
    um 18 gauge wire so there i've got
  • 00:35:25
    did it again got to make sure i change
  • 00:35:27
    this back to the 0.25 spacing
  • 00:35:31
    and we can
  • 00:35:34
    pull this down
  • 00:35:37
    and then lastly uh
  • 00:35:44
    we'll bring these across
  • 00:35:49
    and then our black wire
  • 00:35:57
    okay so those are now connected so now
  • 00:36:00
    we just need to um connect these to our
  • 00:36:03
    receiver so this is where we can kind of
  • 00:36:05
    get
  • 00:36:06
    um you know a little bit more complex so
  • 00:36:09
    um the first thing i'm going to do is
  • 00:36:11
    run my power once again
  • 00:36:14
    i'll put a spacing of 0.25 and
  • 00:36:18
    we can grab our power from here
  • 00:36:25
    and then if i click i can kind of do a
  • 00:36:27
    90 degree
  • 00:36:28
    and then click again to uh
  • 00:36:31
    get that drawn and then we'll do our
  • 00:36:34
    single wires so first we're going to
  • 00:36:35
    have a red wire
  • 00:36:38
    going from our second
  • 00:36:41
    channel here and this goes all the way
  • 00:36:43
    over to
  • 00:36:52
    our os3 or sorry our is3
  • 00:36:59
    okay and next we'll do
  • 00:37:06
    green
  • 00:37:12
    this goes all the way over here
  • 00:37:19
    and we've got yellow
  • 00:37:40
    blue and orange so we'll do the blue one
  • 00:37:46
    this actually goes straight down and
  • 00:37:52
    orange we'll go from here
  • 00:38:03
    to our
  • 00:38:06
    fifth input all right
  • 00:38:09
    so uh there again you know we
  • 00:38:12
    we have some segments that we you know
  • 00:38:16
    can kind of overlap here so i'm actually
  • 00:38:17
    going
  • 00:38:18
    to hide the wire label there we'll hide
  • 00:38:21
    the wire label here
  • 00:38:23
    and i can put those on you know our
  • 00:38:25
    different segments
  • 00:38:27
    so we don't see all that crossing going
  • 00:38:30
    on
  • 00:38:33
    and i'll remove this one as well
  • 00:38:42
    okay now if we if we want to move these
  • 00:38:45
    around we certainly can do that
  • 00:38:47
    by just clicking and dragging those it
  • 00:38:49
    it by default we'll put them on
  • 00:38:51
    um it will by default put them on the
  • 00:38:55
    um center of of the segments that they
  • 00:38:58
    show up on
  • 00:38:59
    so that is something we can change as
  • 00:39:02
    well
  • 00:39:04
    okay so then the next thing we want to
  • 00:39:07
    do remember we need to connect these
  • 00:39:09
    back to our wires
  • 00:39:10
    on the previous document so what i'm
  • 00:39:13
    going to do is create
  • 00:39:14
    origin destination arrows for this so
  • 00:39:16
    when i come into my origin destination
  • 00:39:18
    you see that it puts
  • 00:39:20
    you know whatever sheets we're going to
  • 00:39:21
    work with side by side
  • 00:39:23
    and then i can say single insertion so
  • 00:39:26
    notice that these the ends of these
  • 00:39:28
    wires i get this green dot that i can
  • 00:39:30
    select so this
  • 00:39:31
    this only works for any wires that are
  • 00:39:33
    you know not drawn to anything
  • 00:39:36
    so then when i pick this green wire it's
  • 00:39:38
    going to come over on the second sheet
  • 00:39:39
    and notice i cannot pick
  • 00:39:40
    any other wire styles okay so here
  • 00:39:44
    we're going to do green to green and
  • 00:39:46
    then here we'll do orange to orange
  • 00:39:50
    and then the white to white
  • 00:39:56
    yellow t yellow
  • 00:39:59
    black to black and
  • 00:40:03
    red and then
  • 00:40:06
    down here same thing
  • 00:40:11
    now because these two wires are the same
  • 00:40:14
    this is one where you have to kind of be
  • 00:40:16
    careful these are just black control
  • 00:40:18
    wires so
  • 00:40:19
    you know i want to make sure i pick the
  • 00:40:20
    proper one here
  • 00:40:23
    so there you see i'm i'm kind of done
  • 00:40:25
    and everything
  • 00:40:26
    oops it's closed down electrical let me
  • 00:40:29
    bring that back up
  • 00:40:33
    so maybe it's good that i did that so
  • 00:40:36
    one of the nice things is
  • 00:40:38
    is notice i've never saved this that's
  • 00:40:41
    the beauty of
  • 00:40:42
    sql so as you make things even if you
  • 00:40:45
    accidentally close it there was no
  • 00:40:46
    saving that needed to be done
  • 00:40:49
    it actually saved everything that that
  • 00:40:51
    i've done known as my the last thing i
  • 00:40:53
    did here was the origin destination
  • 00:40:55
    arrows
  • 00:40:55
    so maybe that's a good thing that that
  • 00:40:57
    happened to me uh
  • 00:41:00
    so one of the nice things as well is
  • 00:41:02
    these
  • 00:41:03
    origin destination arrows are smart so
  • 00:41:05
    it actually
  • 00:41:06
    um it there is an equation set up
  • 00:41:09
    basically saying that this is
  • 00:41:11
    on sheet one and then um on
  • 00:41:14
    row 10 okay now if i right click on
  • 00:41:18
    on this you can actually say go to the
  • 00:41:20
    origin arrow
  • 00:41:22
    and when i do that notice it actually
  • 00:41:24
    brings me over to sheet 1
  • 00:41:25
    and zooms me in on that exact
  • 00:41:28
    location you know if i
  • 00:41:32
    if i go here and say go to destination
  • 00:41:35
    arrow
  • 00:41:35
    it will zoom me into the yellow wire
  • 00:41:37
    where that's connected okay
  • 00:41:39
    so you you see that those are kind of
  • 00:41:41
    smart arrows and
  • 00:41:42
    and allows us to navigate uh
  • 00:41:46
    navigate the uh the project
  • 00:41:51
    um so now i need to number wires again
  • 00:41:54
    and i can go ahead and
  • 00:41:57
    you know renumber these wires and there
  • 00:42:00
    you see we get
  • 00:42:02
    you know our additional lawyers that
  • 00:42:03
    that haven't been numbered yet
  • 00:42:06
    and you'll even see if i go back to my
  • 00:42:08
    first drawing here that these now have
  • 00:42:10
    their numbers as well
  • 00:42:13
    okay um
  • 00:42:18
    so then the next thing uh for this we
  • 00:42:20
    can we can again use our location
  • 00:42:23
    outlines to
  • 00:42:24
    uh you know represent where these
  • 00:42:26
    different components are so
  • 00:42:28
    if i drop in the location outline for
  • 00:42:32
    the receiver this is actually on my
  • 00:42:34
    bottom
  • 00:42:35
    plate so i can select that and then
  • 00:42:37
    change the component location
  • 00:42:39
    the gps is going to be on the top plate
  • 00:42:45
    so i can set that up grab my top plate
  • 00:42:50
    and change the component location and
  • 00:42:52
    then the flight controller is actually
  • 00:42:53
    on the middle plate
  • 00:42:57
    so we can grab that we just want to make
  • 00:43:00
    sure we grab
  • 00:43:02
    a full symbol to get that uh moved
  • 00:43:06
    and then that's on the middle plate and
  • 00:43:08
    then we can change
  • 00:43:09
    all right so here again we've got you
  • 00:43:12
    know kind of some overlap so i can clean
  • 00:43:13
    that up and just kind of move that over
  • 00:43:16
    so you know the the the different colors
  • 00:43:18
    that we have representing this can
  • 00:43:20
    can be changed so like our location
  • 00:43:22
    outlines
  • 00:43:23
    you know our specific color they're dark
  • 00:43:25
    purple i could change this text to dark
  • 00:43:27
    purple as well to kind of keep that a
  • 00:43:29
    little bit more organized
  • 00:43:33
    so now if i jump back over to my
  • 00:43:35
    components now you see that
  • 00:43:37
    the specific components got moved to
  • 00:43:40
    their
  • 00:43:41
    correct locations so at the arm we have
  • 00:43:43
    our
  • 00:43:44
    speed controllers and motors on the top
  • 00:43:46
    plate we have the gps
  • 00:43:48
    on the middle plate we have our flight
  • 00:43:49
    controller or autopilot and then at the
  • 00:43:51
    bottom plate we've got
  • 00:43:53
    our power and then also the receiver
  • 00:43:56
    on that bottom plate
  • 00:44:02
    all right so now we actually need to
  • 00:44:05
    add some additional components to our
  • 00:44:08
    bill of material that aren't going to be
  • 00:44:09
    represented by symbols so
  • 00:44:11
    um there's actually some quick
  • 00:44:13
    disconnects between the uh
  • 00:44:15
    the esc's and the motors so
  • 00:44:18
    you know if we need to change these out
  • 00:44:20
    there's actually some bullet connectors
  • 00:44:22
    there so what i can do is actually
  • 00:44:25
    i can add just i can
  • 00:44:28
    add a component manufacturer part
  • 00:44:32
    to this and this and then if i just hit
  • 00:44:34
    search it will find my generic connector
  • 00:44:36
    so i want a bullet connector
  • 00:44:38
    and i want 12 of these so three for each
  • 00:44:42
    motor
  • 00:44:43
    and we can just hit ok
  • 00:44:46
    and so there you see that it it has
  • 00:44:50
    those 12 connectors out at the arm
  • 00:44:51
    location
  • 00:44:52
    and then also on the uh the power
  • 00:44:55
    distribution board there's actually some
  • 00:44:57
    generic connectors that get soldered on
  • 00:44:59
    there that that we'd need to order
  • 00:45:02
    so i can um i can actually
  • 00:45:05
    add you know another
  • 00:45:08
    manufacturer's part here and
  • 00:45:11
    we're gonna have four of these
  • 00:45:15
    okay so so now you see our bill of
  • 00:45:19
    material
  • 00:45:20
    includes these additional connectors um
  • 00:45:22
    in their proper locations but there's no
  • 00:45:24
    symbolic representation for those um
  • 00:45:29
    so that's that's how we can kind of
  • 00:45:31
    control the bill of material
  • 00:45:34
    uh so then the last thing or the last
  • 00:45:37
    sheet we want to make
  • 00:45:38
    is our wiring line diagram so these are
  • 00:45:43
    um these are actually uh you know more
  • 00:45:46
    general we don't have individual
  • 00:45:48
    connections you can be a little bit more
  • 00:45:50
    uh you know you can you can draw these
  • 00:45:53
    things more in a
  • 00:45:55
    pictorial way so in this case we're
  • 00:45:58
    gonna do you know
  • 00:46:00
    just call this drone overview or
  • 00:46:02
    something like that
  • 00:46:06
    and we'll keep the location at the drone
  • 00:46:08
    body so
  • 00:46:09
    now we have our
  • 00:46:13
    our sheet and then i'm going to insert
  • 00:46:16
    specific symbols so you know with with
  • 00:46:19
    these single line diagrams um
  • 00:46:23
    you know we we have some different
  • 00:46:24
    symbols that we can use
  • 00:46:27
    and
  • 00:46:30
    yeah my motors here so i can just insert
  • 00:46:33
    this
  • 00:46:34
    now when i insert that what it wants to
  • 00:46:37
    do is create
  • 00:46:38
    you know a new mark now because i've
  • 00:46:41
    already have
  • 00:46:42
    this motor one in here this is just an
  • 00:46:45
    another representation of the same
  • 00:46:47
    component so i can just grab
  • 00:46:49
    uh m1 here and you see you know this
  • 00:46:52
    this symbol is going to
  • 00:46:53
    you know be represented you know in two
  • 00:46:57
    places on the schematic and then also in
  • 00:46:59
    the single line diagram
  • 00:47:00
    so we can insert that one uh and then i
  • 00:47:04
    can
  • 00:47:04
    insert the second one and then the third
  • 00:47:08
    one here
  • 00:47:13
    then our fourth one as well
  • 00:47:20
    okay and then we'll next do our speed
  • 00:47:23
    controllers
  • 00:47:27
    now again these these symbols can be
  • 00:47:31
    you know you can
  • 00:47:35
    you can edit these to give you more
  • 00:47:37
    information if you want
  • 00:47:39
    or we can you know have just some
  • 00:47:42
    simple text simple description in there
  • 00:47:46
    as well so there's three and then we'll
  • 00:47:48
    add
  • 00:47:49
    four here
  • 00:47:53
    okay so then next um the next logical
  • 00:47:57
    uh thing we should insert is our power
  • 00:47:58
    distribution board
  • 00:48:00
    uh so we can uh
  • 00:48:03
    you know place that here and again
  • 00:48:06
    that's on my bottom plate
  • 00:48:08
    so we'll grab that component and then
  • 00:48:11
    if you recall this is connected to our
  • 00:48:14
    power module
  • 00:48:19
    i'll just move that over here which is
  • 00:48:25
    and then this is connected to the
  • 00:48:28
    battery
  • 00:48:29
    so that's under power supplies
  • 00:48:34
    and then we've got it's also on the
  • 00:48:38
    bottom plate
  • 00:48:41
    and then we're going to do our flight
  • 00:48:46
    controller
  • 00:48:49
    which is on the middle plate
  • 00:48:56
    and then we'll just lastly do the
  • 00:48:57
    receiver and the gps so i can grab the
  • 00:49:00
    gps first put that here
  • 00:49:04
    that's on our top plate
  • 00:49:08
    and then the receiver
  • 00:49:12
    okay so you can see that you know these
  • 00:49:14
    symbols are
  • 00:49:16
    um you know more
  • 00:49:19
    pictorial representations of of what we
  • 00:49:22
    actually have
  • 00:49:23
    um and and we can you know draw the
  • 00:49:26
    the connections between the two so
  • 00:49:28
    because we have this done on the
  • 00:49:30
    schematic
  • 00:49:31
    if i go and draw a cable notice there's
  • 00:49:33
    no connection points i need to hit when
  • 00:49:35
    i
  • 00:49:35
    when i go into a symbol it just gives me
  • 00:49:38
    that green square there
  • 00:49:40
    and then i can connect it to the esc
  • 00:49:43
    now if i double click on this line
  • 00:49:45
    notice that it knows that there's three
  • 00:49:47
    wires one three and five and those are
  • 00:49:51
    you know connected uh to our
  • 00:49:54
    our uh the correct components
  • 00:49:57
    so if we go back to this
  • 00:50:00
    you know one three and five we're going
  • 00:50:03
    from m1 to esc one so because i've
  • 00:50:05
    already done that these
  • 00:50:07
    pretty much the work here has been done
  • 00:50:10
    so we can still get that information
  • 00:50:15
    between the two so those all connect
  • 00:50:17
    there and then these all come into the
  • 00:50:18
    power distribution board
  • 00:50:36
    and then the distribution board goes to
  • 00:50:38
    the module
  • 00:50:41
    module goes to the battery
  • 00:50:46
    distribution board goes to the flight
  • 00:50:48
    controller
  • 00:50:52
    and then the power module also goes into
  • 00:50:55
    the flight controller
  • 00:50:58
    receiver and lastly the gps
  • 00:51:03
    so everything kind of leads back to the
  • 00:51:05
    flight controller pretty much
  • 00:51:07
    uh so again if i just double click on
  • 00:51:10
    one of these wires we can actually see
  • 00:51:11
    you know what's coming from the
  • 00:51:12
    distribution board and what
  • 00:51:15
    pin is it actually connected to on the
  • 00:51:16
    flight controller so you see that these
  • 00:51:18
    pins are also labeled
  • 00:51:20
    based on the circuit that we had
  • 00:51:24
    you know set up already in the schematic
  • 00:51:26
    so those are
  • 00:51:27
    you know these these pins here coming
  • 00:51:29
    from the
  • 00:51:30
    the distribution uh module
  • 00:51:34
    if you recall
  • 00:51:37
    so that's um you know a quick way to
  • 00:51:41
    to sort of lay out your your projects
  • 00:51:43
    and
  • 00:51:44
    um you know once once we do all this
  • 00:51:47
    again that this
  • 00:51:48
    this is completely optional this is just
  • 00:51:51
    gives you another type of drawing
  • 00:51:53
    um the schematics kind of control a lot
  • 00:51:55
    of the smarts whereas this
  • 00:51:56
    is more of an overview of of what you
  • 00:51:58
    have going on
  • 00:52:00
    um and just kind of showing that you
  • 00:52:02
    know if we reuse a
  • 00:52:04
    component or if we have multiple
  • 00:52:05
    representations of a component
  • 00:52:08
    we can actually have
  • 00:52:11
    have these on different sheets so here
  • 00:52:12
    again motor one if i just right click
  • 00:52:15
    and say go to
  • 00:52:16
    it will zoom me in on motor 1. if i
  • 00:52:18
    right click here and say go to
  • 00:52:20
    it will zoom in on motor 1 on the
  • 00:52:22
    overview so each component
  • 00:52:25
    you know you can kind of expand those
  • 00:52:27
    out and see
  • 00:52:28
    all of the symbolic representations but
  • 00:52:31
    they're all
  • 00:52:32
    uh representing the same component now
  • 00:52:35
    notice our
  • 00:52:36
    those connectors that we just added to
  • 00:52:38
    the bill of material don't have anything
  • 00:52:41
    associated they don't have any symbols
  • 00:52:43
    associated with them
  • 00:52:44
    and it's because we just want to include
  • 00:52:46
    those on our reports
  • 00:52:47
    so that brings us into the reports
  • 00:52:51
    now reports we can have you know many
  • 00:52:53
    many different types of reports
  • 00:52:55
    here i just i'm going to have a bill of
  • 00:52:57
    material and a wireless
  • 00:52:59
    we can do things like harnesses and
  • 00:53:02
    do plc's and things like that but these
  • 00:53:06
    these are customizable as well
  • 00:53:10
    so if i just come into one of these and
  • 00:53:12
    go to the properties you can see
  • 00:53:14
    i can add you know different columns
  • 00:53:17
    from this list so remember this all goes
  • 00:53:19
    back to
  • 00:53:20
    you know what what information do we
  • 00:53:22
    want and
  • 00:53:24
    and what text boxes do i need to fill in
  • 00:53:26
    when i'm creating a
  • 00:53:28
    manufacturer's part or when i'm creating
  • 00:53:30
    a symbol
  • 00:53:31
    when i created my project we saw all
  • 00:53:33
    those text boxes for
  • 00:53:34
    the information that we want and these
  • 00:53:36
    all get mapped
  • 00:53:38
    to these smart reports so
  • 00:53:42
    um here if we just look at our bill of
  • 00:53:44
    material you'll see that
  • 00:53:46
    um here it's got the the reference or or
  • 00:53:50
    the like the part number or the part
  • 00:53:53
    name
  • 00:53:54
    and then the mark that it was given in
  • 00:53:56
    our project
  • 00:53:57
    and then a description of that and then
  • 00:53:59
    lastly the the quantity
  • 00:54:01
    and then our list of wires by by uh
  • 00:54:05
    line style so this this will actually um
  • 00:54:09
    show us the origin and destination of
  • 00:54:11
    wire number one so remember that went
  • 00:54:12
    from
  • 00:54:13
    motor one the w circuit to the esc one
  • 00:54:17
    the w circuit as well it tells what our
  • 00:54:21
    wire style is here and then the length
  • 00:54:25
    uh we we don't have anything filled in
  • 00:54:27
    for the length for each of the wires we
  • 00:54:28
    can fill in a length
  • 00:54:30
    now if you have solidworks in solidworks
  • 00:54:32
    electrical 3d
  • 00:54:33
    if we use the automatic routing
  • 00:54:35
    capability with that it automatically
  • 00:54:37
    calculates where links
  • 00:54:39
    but we you know when we only have the 2d
  • 00:54:42
    schematic if we want wire length
  • 00:54:45
    we do have to manually enter that and
  • 00:54:47
    then lastly this is just our drawing
  • 00:54:49
    list
  • 00:54:51
    where you can see we've we've got those
  • 00:54:53
    things so now what i want to do is
  • 00:54:55
    actually generate the drawing so when i
  • 00:54:57
    uh choose all those to generate what it
  • 00:54:59
    will actually do is is give me a drawing
  • 00:55:02
    of
  • 00:55:02
    of each of these reports that i have
  • 00:55:09
    so when we're looking in the report
  • 00:55:11
    window you can see
  • 00:55:13
    you know we can manipulate this stuff
  • 00:55:14
    and look at it so now
  • 00:55:16
    you see that the drawing list actually
  • 00:55:18
    got um you know
  • 00:55:19
    a lot longer so if i hit ok here now and
  • 00:55:22
    go to my drawing sheets
  • 00:55:24
    you can see if i look at a build
  • 00:55:26
    material sheet notice
  • 00:55:28
    our this this report actually generates
  • 00:55:30
    a sheet that's broken out by
  • 00:55:33
    manufacturer so you see that these are
  • 00:55:36
    grouped together by the different
  • 00:55:37
    manufacturers that i'm using
  • 00:55:40
    for example the the bullet and the
  • 00:55:42
    dean's connector these are
  • 00:55:44
    these are shown the different marks for
  • 00:55:46
    those the description
  • 00:55:48
    the quantity uh and then because this
  • 00:55:51
    list is a little bit longer to fit on
  • 00:55:52
    one sheet it automatically knows to
  • 00:55:54
    create a second sheet
  • 00:55:56
    uh and then the same with the the wires
  • 00:55:59
    okay so
  • 00:56:00
    here these are split out by the wire
  • 00:56:03
    style that i used
  • 00:56:05
    so here you can see origin destination
  • 00:56:07
    what the wire number is
  • 00:56:09
    the section and then again length if we
  • 00:56:11
    had
  • 00:56:12
    those included it would give us the
  • 00:56:13
    length of each wire and then the overall
  • 00:56:15
    length
  • 00:56:16
    for you know those those wire styles
  • 00:56:20
    so here you can just kind of see that
  • 00:56:22
    you know the number of different wires
  • 00:56:24
    that i had was a lot longer so
  • 00:56:26
    you can kind of see that these tables
  • 00:56:28
    are
  • 00:56:30
    moved on to the next sheet and then the
  • 00:56:31
    last thing is our drawings list
  • 00:56:33
    you know this this actually kind of
  • 00:56:35
    gives me the table of contents so
  • 00:56:37
    uh you can see that we've got our
  • 00:56:40
    different drawings here and if you want
  • 00:56:42
    to change the order of this you you
  • 00:56:43
    certainly can do that
  • 00:56:45
    i could you know maybe move the
  • 00:56:48
    drawings list here to the front and
  • 00:56:51
    then i can simply just renumber
  • 00:56:54
    the documents for this and just say
  • 00:56:57
    recalculate so now
  • 00:57:00
    you know we've got one two three four so
  • 00:57:03
    those now go in the correct order
  • 00:57:09
    all right and then the last thing i just
  • 00:57:11
    want to do here is
  • 00:57:12
    is export um this to a pdf document just
  • 00:57:15
    to show
  • 00:57:16
    you know what we can do with that so i'm
  • 00:57:18
    going to put this on a 11 by 17
  • 00:57:20
    sheet and we can give this a name
  • 00:57:25
    drone demo and i can save that out
  • 00:57:29
    and we'll just hit export so when we
  • 00:57:32
    export this
  • 00:57:33
    it will create a pdf of all of our uh
  • 00:57:37
    sheets and when i open this in adobe
  • 00:57:40
    you can see that um you know we can view
  • 00:57:44
    this with thumbnails
  • 00:57:45
    or there's also these bookmarks here
  • 00:57:47
    that allow me to
  • 00:57:49
    kind of pick what i want um
  • 00:57:52
    for this now there's also a components
  • 00:57:55
    list
  • 00:57:56
    that is is real nice because we can
  • 00:58:00
    also click on these from the list so
  • 00:58:03
    here i've clicked on the battery
  • 00:58:05
    the schematic representation but i can
  • 00:58:07
    also click here and it has a hyperlink
  • 00:58:10
    to
  • 00:58:10
    the different locations so it will
  • 00:58:12
    automatically zoom you in on those
  • 00:58:16
    those documents and also if we click
  • 00:58:19
    on the pdb for example this symbol
  • 00:58:23
    it will actually zoom us in onto the
  • 00:58:25
    other representation of it so the
  • 00:58:27
    the uh pdf documents are actually smart
  • 00:58:31
    in that fashion where we can
  • 00:58:33
    you know use either the bookmarks here
  • 00:58:36
    or we can actually just click on the
  • 00:58:38
    symbols to see other representations
  • 00:58:40
    also the origin destination arrows do
  • 00:58:43
    the same thing
  • 00:58:44
    if we click on those it will bring us
  • 00:58:46
    back and forth
  • 00:58:47
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  • 00:58:51
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