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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
Defining Raw Ribbon Cables
Like traditional cables, there is no default ribbon cable. Before creating a ribbon
cable in the harness assembly, the definition for the raw ribbon cable must
exist in the Cable and Harness Library. You add raw ribbon cable definitions
to the library the same way you add other harness objects.
1 Activate the Ribbon Cable harness assembly.
2 Click the Cable & Harness Library tool.
3 Select Raw Ribbon Cable as the harness object type.
4 Click the New tool and examine the properties that are unique to ribbon
cables such as the ability to set different colors for conductor one and
the ribbon cable body.
5 On the General tab, enter the manufacturing information for the ribbon
cable:
Name: 28-AWG-9-Conductor
Category: Tutorial
Part Number: 28-AWG-9-Conductor
Conductor One: Red
Ribbon Body: Gray Light
Number of Conductors: 9
Pitch: .05 in.
Height: .035 in.
Width: .450 in.
Gauge: 28
(Core size is optional. Leave it blank.)
6 Optionally, click the Custom tab to add additional properties.
7 Click Save and the new raw ribbon cable is added to the library in the
Tutorial category.
8 Click Close.
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