About creating Cable and Harness assemblies

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.

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.

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.