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What is the easiest way to create a pair of TWISTED wires in cabling from wires created in Route Free modes. My intent is to avoid creating helical-wound wires from Variable Section Sweep option in Pro-E.
Any alternate suggestion will be appreciated.
I tried to get a solution from PTC, but they have no solution either. It's baffling that they spent time writing the Pro Cabling program and couldn't write a subroutine to twist the cable. Hmnn.Copied below is a portion of their reply:
"I did not find
anything in Pro/CABLING to create a pair of wires in twisted form. Variable
section sweep is an option to create it."
Don't know the exact steps in WF 5 but in WF3 you could add location points and specify rotations at locations. The wires were defined by a network path and the rotations applied to it.
just to add to kdem's comments the same process (adding rotations at locations) is also used to make twisted wires in wf5. i use the technique to remove the automatic twists that appear when you add locations to a simply routed wire.
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