Electrical deformable Harness assembly
Electrical deformable Harness assembly
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I would like to use a standard electrical harness assembly in multiple upper level mechanical assemblies that have different orientation connections. This standard harness would be created in a specific mechanical assembly (longest spline paths), by placing components with ports. I want to use this harness in a different mechanical assembly and deform it to connect the connectors or ports that are located in a different locations. I do not see a way to do this with deform. Is there other ways?





RE: Electrical deformable Harness assembly
Now, in the assembly you'll be adding it to (where you want to define your installed harness length) create a spline based on your two port locations to define the new harness path. Now add your detail part representing your harness to the assembly; right click on the part & select "Deform". The deform dialog will ask you for a guide for your sweep; click on your spline and click finish. The sweep profile should snap to your spline, and a feature for the deform will be created in your part navigator. I made a quick video that may help clarify.
A couple things to note; you can define more attributes to manipulate in the deform dialog; in this case, I only needed a sweep profile so that's all I added. Also, I've had problems in the past with deform parts not sweeping correctly over splines defined with NX routing (which I always found very disappointing, since routing is so handy for stuff like this). It could be fixed now, it's been awhile since I've used deformable parts in routing.
RE: Electrical deformable Harness assembly