About bend radius checking

The position of segments and routed and unrouted wires in a harness assembly can sometimes violate the specified minimum bend radius . To check for bend radius violations, you select one, some, or all objects in the harness assembly, and then run the bend radius check. Icons are displayed in the browser alerting you to any violations. You can also show violations to view additional details and to highlight the point or points that are causing the failure.

You can immediately adjust the wire or segment position to fix a violation, or you can continue working and adjust them later. You can also suppress or clear violation errors in the browser.

When active checking is enabled, objects that are affected by an operation and all objects that previously failed the bend radius check are automatically checked under certain conditions.

Reports and nailboard documentation can be created with bend radius violations.

When are active checks done?

Active bend radius checks are done only if active bend radius checking is enabled in the harness settings for the selected harness assembly. Checks are automatically run:

• When routing or unrouting wires or cables.
• As changes are made in the assembly that cause the harness to move such as using the 3D Move/Rotate command or redefining, adding, or deleting work points on segments, wires, or cable wires.
• As changes are made in positional representations.
• While creating segments (if a bend radius multiplier is set in the harness assembly settings).
• On any objects that previously failed the bend radius check.

Active checking is never done while creating wires and cables.

Note: Segment junctions and splices are not included in bend radius checks.

How are violations cleared?

A violation is cleared from both the browser and the harness assembly when adjustments to the segment position fix the violation. To clear a violation from the browser without fixing the violation, use Clear Violations from the context menu.

Clearing the Bend Radius violations does not affect the bend radius suppression state of the object.

How do suppressed violations behave?

When bend radius checking for a harness object is suppressed, all violations for that object are ignored during bend radius checks. The browser icon also updates to indicate the suppressed state.

How are violations identified?

When bend radius violations exist in the assembly, the following error symbols can display:

	Error condition. A bend radius violation exists and is flagged with this symbol in the browser.
	Objects are flagged with this symbol in the browser when: Suppress Violation is selected for the wire, cable, cable wire, or segment. The bend radius value for a wire, cable, cable wire, or segment is not set.

Note: These same symbols indicate modeling errors and constraint errors in standard Autodesk Inventor assemblies. Pause your cursor over the icon to display a tool tip indicating the bend radius status.

To help pinpoint the specific segments, wires, and work points contributing to a violation, you can Show Violations for a selected object. When violations are shown, the segments or wires and the work points are listed in a dialog box and a red symbol is displayed in the graphics window near the work points which may contribute to the violation.