I have posted similar questions on Inventor Cable and Harness but am taking a different angle with this question....
We currently do our panel layouts in a 2D enviroment and have approximately 1500 standard footprints that we use. At this time, we do not show any cable or wiring routing within our panel drawings. I have reviewed Inventor Cable and Harness (and it seems like a great tool). However, there are obviously costs associated with this route not to mention the time to convert all of our blocks to 3D.
Any suggestions on how to provide wiring and harnessing details in 2D? Any software packages out there that work with Electrical? I have lots of AutoCAD programming experience and could possible create something on my own but it sounds like a huge undertaking.
Looking for ideas....
Thanks
I have the same issue and would like to know how AutoCAD Electrical handles the routing of cables. If its not possible can someone please answer.
Thanks
RBN
I think you need to be thinking about where the software will be 5 years down the road
hopefully!!!!!!! They will get the inventor/Acade link to the same level as the current inventor/Eplan link
By looking on manufactures websites you can get stp/iges files for most components now so you can import the 3d models into AutoCad then its just a matter annotating them with the correct attributes
that way your ready when the link works properly that being said I did figure out a way to do 3d wire routing now but it will be only any good if your building the same equipment again and again as the routing is initially high in man hours
but the best harness software i have seen is this
http://www.te.com/en/products/harnware.html
if its good enough for aerospace and the military then its good enough for me