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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
Working with Ribbon
Cables
In this chapter you learn how to add a raw ribbon cable definition to the Cable and Harness
Library, create a ribbon cable between start and end connectors, and then modify it to control
the shape and direction through the assembly.
About Ribbon Cables
Like wires and cables, ribbon cables are retrieved from the Cable and Harness
library and placed in the harness assembly. To insert a ribbon cable, you select
the ribbon cable to insert, identify the start and end connectors, specify how
the ribbon cable engages with the connector, and then add intermediate work
points to control shape or indicate the location for a fold.
Once the ribbon cable is in the assembly, there are many ways to modify it.
■ Change connectivity: select different connectors, change direction in which
the ribbon cable attaches to the connectors, move conductor one to a
different pin, change the orientation.
■ Add, delete, move, and redefine work points.
■ Add single and double folds.
■ Adjust twist at selected points.
In the following exercises, you create a ribbon cable with a single fold between
D-Sub Ribbon on the enclosure and RC Male Connector on the PCB board.
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