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Working with cable harness with a lot of wires

teenothomas — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:27:23 GMT

Hello,

I have so many cable harnesses and each connector has >20 pins.

if i put this in a drawing, it will take most of the space of the drawing. I know flyin flyout is an option but we have to show all wires at the connector. How can i draw a one line cable from connector to connector with all wire information are embedded in the cable.

something like this

thank you

Re: Working with cable harness with a lot of wires

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 14:55:53 GMT

You could probably do what you did there with the one wire thing...

then just make a spreadsheet that has all the connector pin-outs and colors and put someplace in your project as a table.

Re: Working with cable harness with a lot of wires

jseefdrumr — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 15:16:10 GMT

The cable marker symbol is what holds the catalog information for a cable. If you wanted to represent a cable as a single wire, then you could use the cable marker symbol to associate all the information to that wire.

To do this, you would need to be sure and set up the conductor list in the catalog entry for that cable. This field isn't available for you to even see until you go into 'edit mode' in the catalog. Review 'To Work With Editing the Catalog Database Records' in HELP so that you set this up right. However, I'm not sure there's a way to tie together the wires with their pin numbers at the connector. So far as ACADE is concerned, a cable is a separate component from a connector and they each get different part numbers. I don't think ACADE has a way of handling pre-built cables that come with their connectors already in place.

Also, if you need to depict a cable as a single line, then I suggest that you put it on the default layer for cables, '_MULTI_WIRE'. ACADE will skip over any lines drawn on this layer when it is running automatic functions that affect wires. In other words, that's how the software knows not to give it a wire number, etc.

Hope this helps,

Re: Working with cable harness with a lot of wires

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:23:49 GMT

True enough. But that catalog data is just the colors... not what pin on the connector they are tied to.

So if showing as one wire... on "multi_wire" then you loose the pin-out information for the connector.

That seemed to be more what was needed, what color wire in the cable is going to which pin on the connector.

Possibly the "colors" could be setup to read as "RED/PIN1" "BLU/PIN2" etc... if that is always what is done with that specific cable mfg part number.

I am unclear how that would come out in the reports with no wires to report though.