There are three ways to enter the nailboard environment:
- In an active harness assembly, on the Cable and Harness tab, click Nailboard.
- In an open drawing, on the Place Views tab, click Nailboard.
- Open an existing nailboard.
In the nailboard environment, the Nailboard tab and browser display, and you can manipulate and annotate harness data.
To provide for maximum flexibility, the standard Autodesk Inventor Annotate and Place Views tabs are available from the nailboard environment. Using these features, however, is not recommended. We recommend that you create another view and make annotations as needed until the view contains the entities you require.
Pause your cursor over the commands to view the tooltips.
The commands on the Nailboard panels include:
- Edit Nailboard Sketch
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Enters edit mode allowing easy access to the nailboard sketch.
- Pivot
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Fixes a point as a pivot point for arranging the wires, segments, and ribbon cables.
- Fan Out
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Equally distributes wire or cable wire stubs about the endpoint of the segment based on the specified angle and sorting direction.
- Fan In
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Collapses all wires or cable wires onto each other to form one entity that emerges from the endpoint of the segment. It displays using the characteristics of the longest wire or the segment.
- Broken Sketch Entity
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Removes the specified length from the selected wire or segment to shorten the object to fit in the drawing.
- Harness Dimension
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Like the standard General Dimension command. However, the adjusted length values on the harness assembly override the dimension values on the wires, segments, and ribbon cables.
- Property Display
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Inserts the harness properties onto the nailboard.
- Report
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Accesses the report generator from within the nailboard for creation of report files that can be used for annotating the drawing.
- Place Connector Views
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Places one, some, or all connector views. You can specify the display characteristics for placement.
- Base View
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Accesses the standard Autodesk Inventor Drawing Manager command within the nailboard environment for placement of connectors.
- Create Table
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Inserts a table onto the nailboard drawing. Not available in nailboard sketch.