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I'm new to cabling and i'm having some e-learning, but i
can't figured out if i can use autoroute/network paths
without importing any logical ref files.
Is it possible? how?
I guess it's a basic question... so sorry about that.
Export from RSD your logical data and make sure the naming convention lines up and use autorout to get the conductor to route. That all goes down you network path. Think of the network path as your highway and your conductor as your automobile.
You next question will be how do I problem solve when it don't work....
You need to take a class. Edited by: design-engine
Another question, is it possible to set a defined bend
radius (and/or angles) for cabling similarly to piping
features?
This way, i would like to have cables as straight as
possible.
Is there the possibility to do the other way round i.e. to
set a maximum bend radius?
You can set the length to hold a dimension but we struggle to get it to work like we want sometimes. For example i suppose you referring to a cable harness that runs down the length of a door and spans across the hinge back to a power supply of some sort. As the door opens and closes the cable length increases and decreases. In reality the cable will not get longer or shrink as the door opens because the cable is a fixed length. So there is a way in Pro/CABLE to fix the length of the wire or cable.
well... i'm designing an extreme cabling since my copper wirediameter can run up to 40mm diameter. And since my transformer is a static machine, we should have conductors as straight as possible with few bends, or in other words, pretty well defined ones. Not so smooth curves, but lines instead.
The ideal situation would be to set an exact bend radius for each spool, is it possible?
sounds like your designing bus bars for breaker boxes. Give more examples or maybe photos and I can help you. With Siemens I helped them route bus bars using top down design and sheetmetal and skipped Pro/CABLE all together. Depends upon your goals and problems that determine workflow.
I've been around this Cabling Module and Routed System
Lite the last few weeks and i'm getting the whole picture
now.
But my main issue/"complaint" regards bending cables...
I'd like to route cables as straight as possible, instead
of smoothing wires so much...
In fact this is an option (route->cable Envir-
>Smooth/Straight) but with no major differences between
them... i always get splines instead of lines.
The thing is: I'm routing cooper wires that have in fact
40mm diameter (raw material as a cylinder), and bending
these wires as smooth lines is simply not feasible.
Instead we must set a unique bending angle & radius for
wires (as we used to do before with Piping Module) in
order to guarantee that using our bending machine at the
production level they can follow design. (please see the
attached file)
At least it should be possible to set a maximum bending
radius,is it? All i can find is minimum bend radius..
I've been studying this cabling module because I'd really
want to have a report parameter for wire lengths,
impossible to reach with Piping module as far as i know,
but being not able to control my wires bending
radius/angles is an important drawback.
Another question: is it possible to apply BOM Balloons to
wire drawings?
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