About Cable and Harness drawings

Cable and Harness supports the Autodesk Inventor bill of materials (BOM) functionality for a complete representation of a harness. This includes, wires, cables, ribbon cables, connectors, and all virtual parts associated to an existing harness object. By default, the BOM Structure property defines the status of the harness part as Phantom in the BOM.

Note: You can also use the Cable and Harness report generator for placing BOM and connector information in your nailboard, however, virtual part and ribbon cable information is not included.

Refer to Autodesk Inventor Help for details on working with the BOM:

To document harness assemblies, you can create:

In standard Autodesk Inventor drawings, cable and harness information is treated like other parts and subassemblies and you can detail them using normal drawing manager methods and commands. Wires, cables, ribbon cables, and segments are automatically displayed in the drawing when displayed as rendered in the assembly. Looms are displayed in the color of the loom if they are set to show, which is the default. No other virtual parts are displayed. You can also manually include any combination of wires, segments, and cables as centerlines for ease in dimensioning or to save computation time. Splices must also be manually included in a drawing view.

If you include centerlines for wires or cables, but not the segment it is routed through, Autodesk Inventor determines the segments through which the wires or cables are routed, and then displays those centerlines along with those of the wires or cables.

BOM and harness length and quantity properties

By default, each harness object with a unique part number is listed as a separate component in the BOM. Components of the same type and part number are listed as one entry and the quantity reflects the total number of components that were 'rolled up' or combined into this single entry.

For harness objects such as wires, cables, ribbon cables, and looms, the quantity reflects a length. For wires, cables, and ribbon cables it represents the adjusted length. For a loom, it represents the length of the segment portion to which it is attached. When harness objects with length are displayed in the bill of materials, they are assigned an ID in addition to the part number. For example, FIT-221-3/64-Loom1. The ID makes each part number unique so the BOM cannot roll these objects up by part number. To roll up or get a total length for these harness objects, the Stock Number property is used.