In the Cable and Harness environment, you activate the harness assembly that was created from its standard parent assembly. Once the harness is activated, you can edit it in place and add objects to the harness.
Note: Do not perform operations specific to Autodesk Inventor on harness objects as it could cause problems with operations in cable and harness. For example, Inventor operations such as extrusions, sweeps, and others should not be used to change harness objects.
What tasks are performed in the cable and harness environment?
With the cable and harness commands you can:
- Create or open harness assembly files.
- Create electrical parts with individual pins or pin groups.
- Edit and retrieve wire, cable, and ribbon cable definitions from a library.
- Import electrical connectivity wire lists (including cable wires) and other harness data as a .xml or .csv file.
- Allocate space by defining possible wire and cable paths through the assembly.
- Route wires and cables through harness segments and automatically calculate lengths and bundle diameters.
- Attach ribbon cables between start and end connectors, and control the shape and direction of the ribbon cable through the harness assembly.
- Position splices in the harness assembly.
- Attach virtual parts to harness objects.
- Configure and generate reports of the harness assembly.
- Modify the harness as design needs change.
- Create and annotate 2D harness drawings and nailboard drawings.
- Use the browser to organize and edit electrical parts, wires, cables, ribbon cables, segments, splices, and virtual parts.
- Use the browser to change visibility on electrical parts, wires, cables, ribbon cables, and segments.
- Save data to an .xml format that provides a complete description of the harness assembly.
- Import harness data as an .xml or .csv file.