A harness assembly contains harness objects such as the wires, cables, ribbon cables, and segments that make up a wire harness and optionally the connectors to which the wires and cables are attached. Multiple harness assemblies can exist within an assembly.
To enable all commands and begin adding harness objects to an assembly, you must create and locate the cable and harness subassembly. To create the subassembly, you click the Create Harness command.
Once you create the file, the system adds a single cable and harness subassembly to the browser so you can begin adding harness objects to the design.
By default, the harness assembly file is named <file name of top-level assembly>.Harness1.iam (where 1 is an incremental number) and it is saved to the \AIP\Cable and Harness subdirectory under the open assembly. For example, if the top-level assembly, located under Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor [version]\Tutorial Files\Cable & Harness, is named Assembly1, the harness assembly file will be Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor [version]\Tutorial Files\Cable & Harness\Assembly1\AIP\Cable and Harness\Assembly1.Harness1.iam. If appropriate, you can provide a unique name and location for the file.
Harness assemblies can be placed in any standard Autodesk Inventor assembly, but cannot be nested in other harness assemblies.
Placement of the harness assembly within the standard assembly determines the range of electrical connections you can make. A given harness design can make electrical connections only to components with the same parent assembly.