Cable and Harness API

[Zachary.BeasonD97A7]

Can we get an exposed and documented API for cable and harness environment? I have half a dozen electrical engineers who spend half their time doing things that should be automated. Generating wire run reports, nailboards, etc. It's frustrating that C&H seems like such an afterthought that it's only marginally usable in its current state. It's such an afterthought I can't even give this post a category tag of Cable and Harness.

[filat]

Open API for Cabel adn Harness

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Link 1 and Link 2

[HermJan.Otterman]

It should be possible to get to the RefDes of a cable & Harness connector part through the API.

it would make placing and getting data out of a harness assembly a lot easier (through code)

[liminma8458]

I would like to have cable lengths extracted through the API.

Thanks

[inv.ideareview]

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[inv.ideareview]

hanks for sharing your Idea. We use this forum to guide product development and help users in the best way we can based on voting. We occasionally merge Ideas or archive old ones to keep the forum working properly - it ensures there is room for people to review new Ideas and that the most relevant and meaningful ones can gain votes. We’re archiving this Idea because it's been on the board for well over a year and hasn't received many votes from the community. If you want to raise it again and try to gain more support, you're welcome to do so. We’ve found that pictures and mock-ups can help get concepts across and win more votes from other users. If you have questions or see a connection between this Idea and others, let us know. - Inventor product team (Inv.idea review)

[mschindler-mum]

Hi,

The Inventor API needs the support of the Cable and Harness environment.

Many thanks,

Matthias Schindler
CAD/CAM/PDM technical specialist at

[mschindler-mum]

@Discussion_Admin, please move it to the Inventor Ideas site. Don't no, why it is under the Inventor Forum instead.

Many thanks,

Matthias Schindler
CAD/CAM/PDM technical specialist at

[niranjan934]

I am trying to automate the cable segments through vb.net but I didn't find declaring functions? Please can anyone help me out from this issue.

[Yijiang.Cai]

Now there is no API provided for cable harness. I suppose this should be a API requirement here. Many thanks!

[niranjan934]

Thanks for your response @Yijiang.Cai 

[c_heineke]

Is there any planning for such an API in the future? I would like to programmatically create cable and harness features in Inventor.

[Yijiang.Cai]

Many thanks for posting the idea to us, and tracked as [INVGEN-91830]

[nick.kohKBC87]

Hi, I support this idea as the cable & harness inside current Inventor Electromechanical is quite limited and we will need a new API to automate the workflow (for instance, manual insertion of each pins & creation of main hardness for large complex assembly). Thank you!