making electrical wires between connectors

[Anonymous]

I have 2 pipes with connectors on each end...How do i make a realistic shape wire to go from each connector....there will be a wire between a connector on 1 end of the pipe and it goes to a connector on the end of the other pipe....would this be constructed in the assembly and saved as a part to a folder....also can the wire be made as a part and then placed in the assembly...no pipe and run as would prefer to either make as a part or create in the assembly and save as a part

Any help appreciated as i cannot work this out

Thanks

Dane

[BarryZA]

Dane, why not tube and pipe, don't you have it? I haven't used it much, but my understanding is that T&P creates a stand-alone part that it then places into your assembly.

Otherwise maybe derive your assembly (or some basic reference geometry) into a new part file and manually create your sweep from a 3D sketch. Not sure.

[BarryZA]

This is quite rough, but it dosen't look too bad. I did each wire as a new solid, so you could derive each one of those, supress link with base component and put back into your assembly.

Maybe also derive as a multi-body solid instead, use the parts to add some reference geometry like mine and then make the derived parts invisible.

[mcgyvr]

Why not use Inventors built in cable/harness functionality? (there are plenty of tutorials online)

Basically just add a "pin" to each connector at the part level, create a new harness in the assembly and add a wire between each pin. Then you can redefine the points of the wire to go exactly where you want it.