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assembly in the Cable & Harness application. Use the Part Properties dialog
box in Autodesk Inventor Professional Cable & Harness to change the RefDes
property.
You can define attributes on components in AutoCAD Electrical that can map
to properties when exported to Autodesk Inventor Professional. These attributes
can be component definition (catalog database) or component occurrence
specific. Use the Edit Component tool to edit the occurrence of a component.
Upon selection of a catalog number from the AutoCAD Electrical catalog
database, component definition properties can be applied to the component
occurrence and the information exported into the XML file.
NOTE When you apply additional parts to the component occurrence, their
respective component definition properties can also be applied in the overall
component occurrence. Up to ten additional part numbers can be applied to the
occurrence of a component. Each of these catalog numbers can have their own
set of component definition properties.
Wires
In order to map wires from the schematic to the 3D design, each wire needs
a persistent tag or number used to uniquely identify it within the design. The
wire number in AutoCAD Electrical is used as the Wire ID property value in
Cable & Harness. The cabling application needs a From/To list with a unique
identifier to track inputs from multiple wire lists and to know when wires
have moved or been updated on subsequent imports. The wires in the
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
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