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Table Of Contents
Annotate Drawings with Piping Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Cable and Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Chapter 10 Get Started with Cable and Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
About Cable and Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Back Up Tutorial Data Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Set Up Projects For Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Work in Autodesk Inventor Installations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
About Electrical Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Workflow for Electrical Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Create Electrical Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Place Pins and Define Pin-level Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Set Part Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Add RefDes Placeholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Practice Your Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Modify Pinned Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Add Custom Properties to Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Place Electrical Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Chapter 11
Work With Harness Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
About Working in Harness Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Cable and Harness Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Create Harness Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Workflow for Harness Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Use the Cable and Harness Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Set Properties for Harness Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Customize Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Set Occurrence Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Assign Occurrence Reference Designators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Chapter 12
Use the Cable and Harness Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
About the Cable and Harness Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Locate the Cable and Harness Library File . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Display the Library Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Adding Library Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Create New Library Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Modify Library Wire and Cable Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Copy Library Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Edit Library Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Delete Library Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Add Properties to Library Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
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