Adding Wires

[newcomer]

I have a set of printed circuit boards, all quite small.  Pin 5 of board A needs a wire to go to pin 3 of board B.  I have spent most of the evening struggling with the "wires" option, and there doesn't seem to be something as simple as "Take a length of #28 stranded wire with green insulation and connect it to pin 5 of board A and pin 3 of board B".  There are all kinds of wiring harnesses and complex connectors, but nothing that seems to accomplish this simple task.  In addition, it would be nice if it would let me route the wire, and then tell me what length I need to cut.

Or, if there is a lesson somewhere on how to do this, please give me the URL.

     joe

[JDMather]

There are two ways to do this -

1. manually creating a sweep path in assembly (this same question came up in the last 3 days and I posted step-by-step solution).

 this is fine and easy for small, infrequent jobs

2. Routed Systems - go through the Routed Systems Tutorials, worth learning for frequent use of routed wiring, not too difficult to learn.  The key would be defining pins at the connections.

I will try to post example here later today.

[mcgyvr]

Do you have Inventor professional?

If not you are limited to sweeps.. If so using the cable/harness module as JD pointed out in #2 above is the way to go..

You would simply add a "pin" to each circuit board and create a harness (just 1 wire is fine) in the assembly.

You can route it as needed and it will tell you the length of wire required.