To create and route wires in your digital prototype, you first create and place electrical parts or connectors. In Autodesk Inventor Cable & Harness, you identify and label connection points on a connector and set properties for the pins and the part.
Connectors are normal Autodesk Inventor parts or iParts with extended properties and one or more defined wire connection points, known as pins. Connectors are the only harness components that are not created in the context of a harness assembly. Instead, connectors are created by editing normal Autodesk Inventor parts. While editing the parts, you identify the special work points called pins, provide required properties, and optionally add additional custom properties. You can define and edit the pins individually or as a group. Once defined, the electrical part is placed in an assembly.
The reference designator for the individual occurrence or group is required in each harness assembly that uses the electrical part, not once on each part occurrence.
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