I am having difficulty adding Assembly Connection Points. I have several components which by nature of their complexity are assemblies. SWE Help says To create an assembly connection point, create the connection point in the part. Then in the assembly, select the CPoint from the part. An assembly connection point always copies the characteristics of an existing part connection point. I create a new mftr part in SWE and associate the assy. One of these assy's is a potentiometer. Regardless of their use all pots are the same in terms of their physical characteristics. I associate the relevant symbol in the schematic to the assy and as each one has its own sequential Mark when I associate the assy in 3D it gives it the appropriate name. The problem is when I run the routing it sees the part files in each assy as the same and doesn't route the wires. This doesnt happen if you have multiple instances of a Part file that has the same CPoints in its base file. My work around was to Save the Assy AS a Part but then I lose all the flexibility of having the assy. So what is the workflow to add CPoints to an assy which allows you to use the same base assy for the mftr part/assy and get the routing to work. swe2016 sp5
Probably already found the answer to your question, but SolidWorks doesn't really support assembly connection points. They "allow" you to create them, but they are for manual 3D routing only. They can't be used with SWE schematic. When you use the "Electrical Component Wizard" to create the connection points in relation to manufacturer parts, I don't believe it even allows you to do it to an assembly. SolidWorks adamantly recommends against assembly connection points and has no support for it...yet. One time I tried creating assembly connection points, then renaming them 1_0, 2_0, etc. When trying to route, SW generated an error saying it cannot route to assemblies. We convert all of our connectors (connector, seals, terminals, locks) into a single part file and put the connection point on that. Since they are separate bodies, we can show/hide as we need in the drawing. This has worked seamlessly with associations and routing. For custom stuff, we would copy it into the project folder and give it a unique name. Splices, now that's a different story.