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Adding straight lenght to entry port in Cabling

Adding straight lenght to entry port in Cabling

Adding straight lenght to entry port in Cabling

(OP)
I have been able to route a number of harnesses in the Creo 2.0 Cabling application but I can not figure out how to maintain a certain straight length to each end of the harness. In other words, I need a minimum of 10mm straight length leaving each connector. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Allen

RE: Adding straight lenght to entry port in Cabling

How about adding an extrusion on the end of the connector and putting the entry port on the end of that?

RE: Adding straight lenght to entry port in Cabling

(OP)
I wanted to make the wiring as one piece. What I ended up doing was adding a datum point 10mm from the CSYS I created and then adding it as a location in the wire route. It seemed to work!

One other general question I have is, for those of you who use this application in CREO how do you set up the assemblies? I was thinking I would create a separate wiring assembly and add it to my top level assembly. Now, here is the tricky part. I tried doing an external shrinkwrap of the entire assembly and placing it in the wiring assembly. Then, I tried to run the wire from the points in the External Shrinkwrap but now it wont let me since CREO sees the External Shrinkwrap as one connector.

RE: Adding straight lenght to entry port in Cabling

Are the connectors separate parts from the External Shrinkwrap in the assembly?

RE: Adding straight lenght to entry port in Cabling

(OP)
They can be since I am just starting the wiring assembly. So I can constrain the connectors to the external shrink wrap? Then route the wires to the connectors?

RE: Adding straight lenght to entry port in Cabling

That is the method I recommend.
Cable Assembly
-Shrinkwrap
-Connector 1
-Connector 2
-Harness

Make Shrinkwrap default constraint, constrain connectors to Shrinkwrap, designate connectors and their entry ports, route cable from connector 1 to connector 2, route cable and place locations on Shrinkwrap.

RE: Adding straight lenght to entry port in Cabling

(OP)
Thanks for the advice. We are just now learning ProE/CREO at my company so I have been tasked to learning as many aspects to CREO. So many more questions to come! My past experience has been with SolidWorks.

RE: Adding straight lenght to entry port in Cabling

I was kinda in the same boat and took the lead on learning Cabling. I had the project pay for the training that PTC offers and that helped a bit. Most of the time I was learning the hard way.

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