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The length of the cable cores

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galashkina
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The length of the cable cores

I want to manually enter the length of the cable cores and see the length of the cable cores in the report.
In which field is better to enter the length of it to appear in the report?
I chose the "Description" "line3".
Maybe there is a better option?

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You could enter the length into the CNT field (i.e. 6) of the CBL parent symbol.  Then add the SUB field to the BOM by clicking on Change Report Format.  You will see QTY of 1 and SUBQTY of 6.  This of course is a length for the entire cable.

 

There is also a field available for a wire from/to list that you could add and enter the ength for each cable core using the Edit mode of the report generator.  The available field is named CLEN.  It stands for Calculated Length.  It is leftover field from the VIA days when they were considering some sort of automation to record a wire length based on a 2D orthogonal estimate.  It was abandoned when 3D modeling became an option.  Move the CLEN field into the report and use Edit mode to enter the lengths from a prototype build.

 

 



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galashkina
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Thanks for the answer!
But I would like to include the length in the report "Cable from / to."
With this report work installers. They cut specified lengths and pave it in the cable - channel of component "From" to component "To".

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