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Autodesk Inventor Cable and Harness Design Learn the fundamental principles and recommended workflows for creating and documenting 3D electrical parts and wire harness designs using Autodesk ® Inventor ® software. Users learn how to add electrical components, cables, and wires to a design, route wires through an assembly to create a harness, and create ribbon cables. Users also learn how to document the wire harness assembly in drawings and generate reports used to build the wire harnesses. Hands- on exercises representing real-world, industry-specific design scenarios are included. Objectives To teach users the recommended workflows and basic skills needed to design and document 3D electrical parts and wire harness designs using Autodesk Inventor. Duration 2 days Who should attend? This class is designed for Experienced Autodesk Inventor users. Typical Schedule Unless otherwise noted on your class registration e-mail, this class starts each day at 9:00 am and ends at 4:00 pm. Prerequisites Before using this guide, users should have a working knowledge of the following: Autodesk Inventor parametric part and assembly design. Mechanical design validation or mechanical engineering principles (recommended but not necessary). Microsoft ® Windows ® Vista or Microsoft ® Windows ® XP. Outline Chapter 1: Getting Started Creating Cable and Harness Designs . . . . . 1 Lesson: Creating Cable and Harness Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 About Cable and Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Creating a Cable and Harness Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Creating a Harness Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Configuring Harness Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Inserting Electrical Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Setting Unique Part Properties for Electrical Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Exercise: Review and Navigate a Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Exercise: Create a Harness Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Chapter Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Chapter 2: Wire a Harness Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Lesson: Adding Wires and Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Adding Wires. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Adding Cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Exercise: Add Wires and Cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Lesson: Routing Wires and Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 About Route Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Creating Segment Branches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Segment Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Manual Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Automatic Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 View Path Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Unrouting Wires and Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Exercise: Route Wires and Cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Lesson: Importing Wire and Cable Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Importing Wire and Cable Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

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Page 1: Autodesk Inventor Cable and Harness Design Objectives · PDF fileAutodesk Inventor Cable and Harness Design Learn the fundamental principles and recommended workflows for creating

Autodesk Inventor Cable and Harness Design Learn the fundamental principles and recommended workflows for creating and documenting 3D electrical parts and wire harness designs using Autodesk® Inventor® software. Users learn how to add electrical components, cables, and wires to a design, route wires through an assembly to create a harness, and create ribbon cables. Users also learn how to document the wire harness assembly in drawings and generate reports used to build the wire harnesses. Hands-on exercises representing real-world, industry-specific design scenarios are included.

Objectives To teach users the recommended workflows and basic skills needed to design and document 3D electrical parts and wire harness designs using Autodesk Inventor.

Duration 2 days

Who should attend? This class is designed for Experienced Autodesk Inventor users.

Typical Schedule Unless otherwise noted on your class registration e-mail, this class starts each day at 9:00 am and ends at 4:00 pm.

Prerequisites Before using this guide, users should have a working knowledge of the following:

Autodesk Inventor parametric part and assembly design.

Mechanical design validation or mechanical engineering principles (recommended but not necessary).

Microsoft® Windows® Vista or Microsoft® Windows® XP.

Outline Chapter 1: Getting Started Creating Cable and Harness Designs . . . . . 1 Lesson: Creating Cable and Harness Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 About Cable and Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Creating a Cable and Harness Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Creating a Harness Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Configuring Harness Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Inserting Electrical Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Setting Unique Part Properties for Electrical Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Exercise: Review and Navigate a Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Exercise: Create a Harness Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Chapter Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Chapter 2: Wire a Harness Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Lesson: Adding Wires and Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Adding Wires. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Adding Cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Exercise: Add Wires and Cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Lesson: Routing Wires and Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 About Route Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Creating Segment Branches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Segment Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Manual Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Automatic Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 View Path Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Unrouting Wires and Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Exercise: Route Wires and Cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Lesson: Importing Wire and Cable Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Importing Wire and Cable Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

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Reviewing Data Before Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Correcting Import Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Exercise: Import Wire and Cable Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Distributed by ASCENT 866-527-2368 ii ■ Contents Lesson: Adding Ribbon Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 About Ribbon Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Adding Ribbon Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Adding a Fold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Editing a Twist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Ribbon Cable Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Exercise: Add a Ribbon Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Exercise: Add Ribbon Cable Folds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Chapter Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Chapter 3: Refine a Cable and Harness Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Lesson: Modifying Wires, Cables, Segments, and Ribbon Cables. . . . . . . . . 128 Common Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Toggling Display as Rendered. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Changing Definitions and Connection Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Deleting Wires, Cables, Ribbon Cables, or Route Segments. . . . . . . . . . 136 Adding and Modifying Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Checking Bend Radius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Copying a Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Exercise: Edit Display, Settings, and Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Exercise: Add and Modify Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Exercise: Check the Bend Radius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Lesson: Working with Splices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 About Splices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Splice Modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Editing a Wire to a Splice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Exercise: Working with Splices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Lesson: Working with Virtual Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 About Virtual Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Editing Virtual Parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Exercise: Work with Virtual Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Chapter Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Chapter 4: Communicate the Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Lesson: Creating Drawing Views of Cable and Harness Designs. . . . . . . . . . 198 Creating 2D Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Creating Nailboard Drawing Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Modifying a Nailboard View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Adding Connector Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Exercise: Create Drawing Views of a Cable and Harness Design. . . . . . 211 Lesson: Annotating Nailboards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Adding Harness Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Displaying Harness Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Loom and Label Virtual Parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Display As Actual Diameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 Adding Tables with Data from Another File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Exercise: Annotate Nailboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Lesson: Exporting and Reporting Design Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 About Exported Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Exporting Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Distributed by ASCENT 866-527-2368 Contents ■ iii Generating Report Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Exercise: Create External Files of Exported and Reported Data . . . . . . 245 Chapter Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Chapter 5: Configure Library and Report Configuration Files . . . . . . 251 Lesson: Library Definitions and Library Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 About the Cable and Harness Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

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Adding a New Library Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Exporting and Importing Library Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Data File (CSV) Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Exercise: Create Library Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Lesson: Configuration Files for Reports, Imports, and Exports . . . . . . . . . . . 271 About Configuration Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Link Types and Name Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 Defining an Import/Export Configuration File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 Exercise: Modify a Report Configuration File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 Exercise: Create a Library Configuration File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 Chapter Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 Chapter 6: Create, Author, and Publish Electrical Content . . . . . . . . . 297 Lesson: Defining Electrical Parts and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 About Electrical Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 Adding a Pin to an Electrical Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 Adding a Group to an Electrical Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 Exercise: Define an Electrical Part. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 Lesson: Managing Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 About the Content Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316 Installation Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 Adding a Custom Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 Configuring the Content Center File Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Transferring Library Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 Exercise: Create a Custom Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 Lesson: Creating Library Content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 Creating Custom Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 Authoring Electrical Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 Publishing Electrical Parts and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336 Exercise: Author an Electrical Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 Exercise: Publish to the Content Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Lesson: Managing Library Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 Content Center Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 Exercise: Copy and Move Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 Document Settings for Published Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360 Adding and Editing Family Column Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 Adding a Custom Display Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366 Exercise: Add a Column to a Part Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368 Editing Family Table Data in Excel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 Exercise: Edit Family Data in Excel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 Distributed by ASCENT 866-527-2368 iv ■ Contents Creating New Families or Adding Members Using Material Guide . . . 383 Exercise: Create Family Members Using Material Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 Chapter Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

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