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schematic must be fixed, mapped to a wire in the Cable & Harness Wire
Library, and have distinct wires into the same pin.
NOTE The wire number must be unique for individual From and To connections
and a wire network ladder style cannot be used.
You can define attributes and properties on a wire that can map to properties
when exported to Autodesk Inventor Professional. These attributes can be
wire definition (wire type) or wire occurrence specific. Use the Edit Wire
Number tool to edit the wire number. Upon selection of a wire type from the
Set/Edit Wire Type dialog box, wire definition properties can be applied to
the wire layer occurrence and the information exported into the XML file.
Wire layers
Not all nets in a schematic are physical wires; some are representative of other
types of connections, such as those made by attaching a component to a bus
bar. When attempts are made to map these nets in a harness assembly, the
corresponding pins/parts are often not present. Only the nets that are to be
mapped into wires in 3D should be drawn with a layer identified as a wire for
inclusion in the output report file for Autodesk Inventor Professional Cable
& Harness. If a wire that is included in the custom report output file is not
recognized as a library wire in the Cable & Harness Library during the Import
Wire List process, the wire occurrence will not be imported.
The layers defined in AutoCAD Electrical must first be defined as valid wire
layers. Each AutoCAD Electrical wire layer must then correspond to a valid
library wire in the Cable & Harness Library. While the wire layer in AutoCAD
Electrical is just a label or name, the Cable & Harness wire definition defines
how the wire is displayed - including size (outer diameter and gauge) and
color.
Cables
When cables are used in the schematic, the name of the cable conductor (wire)
layer defined in the drawing of AutoCAD Electrical must correspond to a valid
cable definition in the Cable & Harness Library. The Wire Color/ID of each
conductor in AutoCAD Electrical must correspond to a Conductor ID used in
that cable definition in the Cable & Harness Library. This Wire Color/ID can
be overwritten on each cable conductor occurrence by selecting Edit
Component on a cable marker and making the change in the Insert / Edit
Cable Marker dialog box. The Conductor list in the AutoCAD Electrical catalog
can also be changed to reflect the same Conductor ID used in Cable & Harness.
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