2008

Bend Wires
Bend a wire into a right angle turn to avoid or add geometry using the new
Bend Wire tool. When a wire is defined at a right angle, you can modify the
wire and create a new right angle bend while maintaining the original wire
connections to the components.
Reposition Wire Number Leaders
When defining wire number leaders you can type "C" at the command prompt
to go into a wire leader collapse mode to collapse the wire leader back to the
wire number block. You can do this immediately after inserting a leader if you
determine that you don't want the leader or you can re run the Wire Number
Leader command if you want to remove the leader from existing wire numbers.
Link to Autodesk Inventor Professional - Cable & Harness
You can now communicate your electrical designs bi-directionally between
AutoCAD Electrical and Autodesk Inventor Professional Cable & Harness.
AutoCAD Electrical users can pass electrical intent information for cables and
conductors to Autodesk Inventor Professional for the automated creation of
a 3D harness design. Autodesk Inventor Professional users can now pass wire
connectivity information to AutoCAD Electrical for the automatic creation of
the corresponding 2D schematics. Employing the widely used XML language
format, you can transfer design data back and forth while maintaining structure
and organization.
From the XML import from Autodesk Inventor Professional into AutoCAD
Electrical, you can select from a list of connectors defined in the export and
then place the connectors onto a 2D drawing file. Once the connectors have
been inserted onto the drawing, you can place all wire connections to all
components on the drawing file. AutoCAD Electrical parses through the file
data to determine all wire From and To connections. Once the wiring
information is determined the wires are routed making sure to miss existing
geometry on the drawing. The wire insertion tool finds the best possible route
with the least amount of wire loops in between the connection and the wires
are connected in the appropriate position on the connector representation.
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