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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Tubes and Pipes
- 1 Getting Started with Tube & Pipe
- 2 Route Basics
- 3 Setting Styles
- 4 Creating Rigid Routes and Runs
- General Workflow for Rigid Routes
- Creating Auto Route Regions
- Manually Creating Parametric Regions
- Automatically Dimension Route Sketches
- Create Segments With Precise Values
- Define Parallel and Perpendicular Segments
- Snap Route Points to Existing Geometry
- Place Constraints On Route Sketches
- Create Bends Between Existing Pipe Segments
- Create Pipe Routes With Custom Bends
- Create Bent Tube Routes
- Realign 3D Orthogonal Route Tool
- Control Dimension Visibility
- Populated Routes
- 5 Creating and Editing Flexible Hose Routes
- 6 Editing Rigid Routes and Runs
- 7 Using Content Center Libraries
- 8 Authoring and Publishing
- 9 Documenting Routes and Runs
- Cable and Harness
- 10 Getting Started with Cable and Harness
- 11 Working With Harness Assemblies
- 12 Using the Cable and Harness Library
- 13 Working with Wires and Cables
- About Wires and Cables
- Setting Modeling and Curvature Behavior
- Inserting Wires and Cables Manually
- Moving Wires and Cables
- Deleting Wires and Cables
- Replacing Wires
- Assigning Virtual Parts
- Importing Harness Data
- Adding Shape to Wires and Cable Wires
- Setting Occurrence Properties
- Changing Wire and Cable Displays
- 14 Working with Segments
- 15 Routing Wires and Cables
- 16 Working with Splices
- 17 Working with Ribbon Cables
- 18 Generating Reports
- 19 Working Nailboards and Drawings
- IDF Translator
- Index
Routing Wires and
Cables
When wires and cables are routed, they are inserted into selected segments using manual,
automatic, or semi-automatic methods. Unrouting wires and cables removes them from the
selected segments.
In this chapter, you learn how to use the different routing and unrouting methods.
About Routing and Unrouting
By default, when wires and cables are routed, or placed into segments, the wire
and cable lengths and segment diameters are automatically calculated. All work
points on a wire or cable wire are deleted when routed from a point-to-point
state. Wire and cable lengths and segment diameters are also calculated
automatically when unrouting or removing wires and cables from segments.
When routing and unrouting individual wires, each wire is independent and
can take a different path through the assembly. When routing and unrouting
cables all cable wires that make up the cable must follow the same path. If a
change is made to the routing or unrouting of one cable wire, all associated
cable wires also change.
Wires and cables can be routed only into segments that are in the active harness
assembly. To route wires and cables, you can use one of three methods:
Inserts individual wires and cables into selected segments
one at a time. Segments can be discontinuous.
manual
Inserts selected wires and cables into continuous seg-
ments.
semi-automatic
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