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Table Of Contents
Annotating Drawings with Piping Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Cable and Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Chapter 10 Getting Started with Cable and Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
About Cable and Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Understanding Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Backing Up Tutorial Data Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Setting Up Projects For Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Working in Autodesk Inventor Installations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
About Electrical Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Workflow for Electrical Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Creating Electrical Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Place Pins and Define Pin-level Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Set Part Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Add RefDes Placeholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Practice Your Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Modifying Pinned Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Delete Pins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Adding Custom Properties to Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Placing Electrical Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Chapter 11
Working With Harness Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
About Working in Harness Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Cable and Harness Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Creating Harness Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Workflow for Harness Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Using the Cable and Harness Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Setting Properties for Harness Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Customize Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Set Occurrence Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Assign Occurrence Reference Designators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Chapter 12
Using the Cable and Harness Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
About the Cable and Harness Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Locating the Cable and Harness Library File . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Displaying the Library Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Adding Library Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Create New Library Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Modifying Library Wire and Cable Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Copy Library Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Edit Library Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Delete Library Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Add Properties to Library Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
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