The Cabinet Engineering discipline provides extensive support for designing and laying out cabinets. This includes precise component placement, collision checks for objects, and the calculation of wire lengths and routes during the planning phase. The filling level of cable ducts is always visible. Drilling data for bulk items, such as mounting rails, can be configured easily via a dedicated dialog. The integrated 3D view improves spatial awareness of the cabinet. All generated data is available for producing wire and cable bundles, label printing, mounting plates, and cabinet doors on NC machining centres.
A particularly useful feature is the ability to create cabinet layouts from external electrical CAD data without pre-existing schematics. A wizard reads terminal charts, material lists, and connection lists and matches them against the WSCAD database — offering a new degree of flexibility for cabinet builders who wish to create layouts in WSCAD using data from other electrical CAD systems.
Performance Focus
- Requirements-based project start: initiate planning with the cabinet or schematics
- 3D wire routing and wire length calculation in the
control cabinet to optimise the cable harness - Automated cabinet wiring while considering
various voltage levels - Standardised control cabinet layouts (cabinet macros)
for faster design planning - Placement support, collision checks and
fill-level display already during the planning phase - Export of all data for automated production
(wiring lists, drilling/CNC data, part lists)
Technology at a glance
- Scale-based planning
- Precise right and left-aligned placement of components
accurate to one-tenth of a millimeter - Fill level calculation and display of cable ducts
- Collision check of objects
- Auto-routing of connections, calculation of wire lengths
- 3D representation for better spatial awareness
- Cabinet configuration based on external electrical CAD data
Cabinet Engineering with manufacturing integration
However you call it, the results are the same: fast, fully digital processing and consistently high quality. Cabinet Engineering from the WSCAD Software provides the right engineering tools at your fingertips. Schematics, 2D and 3D cabinet layouts, label printing, wire and core labelling, data that can be used for the production of wires, wire sets, cabinet doors and mounting plates through to wiring and maintenance via an augmented reality app— are all included in WSCAD Software.
This information brochure provides an overview of the manufacturing integration with WSCAD Software and the advantages of end-to-end digital engineering.
Engineering and manufacturing control cabinets with WSCAD
Control cabinets cannot simply be designed and manufactured “by the book.” Most of the highly specialised medium-sized companies need to be equally proficient in both the technology and the practical skills of the trade. They need the right CAD tools to meet tight deadlines while maintaining high quality. The following user report illustrates how a switchgear manufacturer from the vicinity of Augsburg, Germany has successfully met these challenges.
