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Re: Wiring Harness?????

Darn! I could've used that add in :-(

99% of my designs will have a wir> Philippe, the (expensive) SolidWorks add-in named EmbassyWorks was a
product of Linius Corp., purchased fairly recently by AutoDesk as Mr. > Miller pointed out. It has/had a good bit more than SolidSketch, but I > really like the capabilities of your add-in software (finally got a > chance to put a plug in for ya). Some of what it has/had includes(d) a > database to track connections (like a netlist), utilizing Oracle (huge > memory hog) and the capability to do "nailboard" layouts of a wiring > harness with wire lengths specified as well as do schematics, all of the > above being associative. It has/had a huge collection of connectors as > well, and you could logically assign a heirarchical system of reference > designators to wires, connectors and (I believe) to the units they > connected together. Actually, in my opinion it is/was rather much > overkill for any need that I might have had, or for any project that > I've been involved in using SolidWorks. If you were designing a fighter > aircraft for Lockheed-Martin with all the documentation requirements > that the Defense Department lays on prime contractors, that would be a > different story. If you could do as much as unravel wiring harnesses > made with SolidSketch into a "nailboard" configuration with wire lengths > I'll bet you could find some takers. > > Best regards, > 'Sporky' > > Philippe Guglielmetti wrote: > >>"Paul Miller" wrote >> >>>Embassy was purchased by Autodesk. No longer on SW partner list. >> >>Does it mean there is a market here (again) ? Any other player ? >>What are the most important features of such a product ? >>(we have a very basic "wiring" example done with our SolidPlus add-in at >>
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Well maybe you still can find it somewhere... But I'm thinking of doing something in this area. Can you provide me with more information on how you're doing this wiring ? I'd like to know:

1) what is your "input data" ? do you have a scheme (Visio ? other software?) or a table of connections (connector X25,pin5, to X12,pin7 etc...) ? which is the file format? (Excel ? text ?...) 2) where do you get the models of the connectors ? Is there a standard way to identify the pins ? 3) the thing I can possibly do "quickly" is a tool to help you draw a spline (or a composite curve) from one pin to another, in an assembly 3D sketch, then generate "wires" part(s) (SW2003 allows multiple wires per part (harness?) through multibody) from the splines as in
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. Is it what you want ? 4) do you need specific info in a custom wire list ? which ? or are you happy with a SW BOM ?

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Philippe Guglielmetti

Well........... It can get complicated. I'm a new user of SW and 3D, I presently don't know the "best way". For instance, in my first model we are buying a OEM power supply which includes the wire harnesses not suitable for our needs So I "had to" (rats) use autocad 2D to modify the power supply to replace the AC and DC harnesses with our prefered ones. There was a lot of info required to do the changes. like remove ac receptical and switch then add ac wires (winding ac wires one turn around a ferrite ring) to connect to a line filter mounted on the rear panel, which includes a switch and receptical. Then............. It could take a while to describe what I had to depict on the drawing, It'd be easier to send the drawing :-) , I could if you like, to see what I'm up against.

What Sporkman described as to what the old add in does is what I would like.

ex. wire table or schematic wire lengths nail board would be handy as someone (me) has to do it. bom ofcoarse and (I'm sure) other things that I can't think of at the moment.

But an add in that just makes it easier to draw wires between connectors following a "channel"? would help.

I'm really surprised that a lot of people don't have to deal with wiring harnesses on this group. I've had to, since I was a green junior draftsman learning how to sharpen a pencil ;-)

Regards Frank

Philippe Guglielmetti wrote:

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FrankW

You're right, they're a major pain with SWX. I've just posted in the balloons and muli-body thread about using multi-body parts as a mock up for length and routing guesstimation.

I think that Spork's right, Mr Gugliemetti. If you managed to get half-way toward this, some of us would definitely bite...

Chris Huntley.

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Chris

sorry, that should be Guglielmetti.

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Chris

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