topic Re: Wire Harness Tool in Fusion Electronics Forum

Wire Harness Tool

k.mahuvarkar — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 06:26:35 GMT

Hello everyone,

Posting on this board since I only have a license for Fusion 360.

I wanted to know if there is a extra tool or add-on for Fusion Electronics which can help with Wire Harness Design, something like the software from Zuken (e3.Cable) or Siemens Wire Harness in NX. I want to create a cad that has a wire harness, which also can generate a harness BoM and Layout in excel.

Thank You.

Re: Wire Harness Tool

joeMVETK — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:22:32 GMT

I could not agree more!

Integrating wire harness design into Fusion would be nothing short of amazing. Is not the Fusion "360" concept intended to close the loop in product design? Wire harness deign is a huge gap in truly achieving this goal. This feature would create a level of synergy far beyond any other product design suite I am aware of. I would forgive so many shortcomings in Fusion to get this feature...

Joe Baumbach

Owner/Engineer

Focus 9 Technology, LLC

Re: Wire Harness Tool

jorge_garcia — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:38:00 GMT

Hi @joeMVETK and @k.mahuvarkar ,

I've added this thread to the existing ticket on wiring harnesses. If you can, could you provide more insight into how you would use this feature if it was available in Fusion?

It will help bolster the ticket.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Re: Wire Harness Tool

joeMVETK — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:11:40 GMT

Hi Jorge,

Sorry, I am still very new, where do I do go to view this ticket and provide Insite?

Re: Wire Harness Tool

jorge_garcia — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:37:38 GMT

Hi @joeMVETK,

No worries, just reply to this thread. The ticket is created internally but it is linked to this thread. So to give your feedback just respond to this thread and the developers will see it.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Re: Wire Harness Tool

k.mahuvarkar — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 08:19:02 GMT

Hello Jorge,

Sorry for the delayed reply.

Since I work with a mechanical team in creating enclosures and machines that need electronics to be hidden somewhere with only wires being visible.

Since we already have the 3D models of the PCB side connectors. Maybe we could have a option to add the mating connector with the option to route that cable to target location to get the estimated cable length for manufacturing, then for manufacturing process we could generate a harness drawing for a to scale print on paper and manufacture the harness in workshop. There could also be an option to add the costs of wires, crimps and connectors to have an estimate BoM.

Something on that terms.

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RaceCarEngineer — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 21:05:07 GMT

Totally Agree. Fusion is hardly missing wire harness design.

It should at least be aible to dd connectors out of a library create a pin from to list. Our of that create a BOM and cut list.

Check out Arcadia by Cardonix, to get an idea

@k.mahuvarkar schrieb:
Hello everyone,
Posting on this board since I only have a license for Fusion 360.
I wanted to know if there is a extra tool or add-on for Fusion Electronics which can help with Wire Harness Design, something like the software from Zuken (e3.Cable) or Siemens Wire Harness in NX. I want to create a cad that has a wire harness, which also can generate a harness BoM and Layout in excel.

Thank You.

Re: Wire Harness Tool

oyvindTMNSU — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 21:40:35 GMT

Agree so much! Where is the wire harness feature? it would be so nice to have to mace complete products. To be able to get cable lengths and routing so that we can guarantee that there is space for the wires. I bigger problem then you might think in small robots.

Any news on this topic? Any plans of integrating it in fusion? Much like the way it's done in Inventor.

So I think it should be a part of the design space not only electric space. So we can make a complete assembly, even if the PCB's are imported from another program as STEP.

@jorge_garcia do you have any info? Who in Autodesk should know about this?

Re: Wire Harness Tool

jorge_garcia — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:27:09 GMT

Hello @oyvindTMNSU ,

I hope you're doing well. Unfortunately, I don't have any news on this to report. I'll add your comments to the existing ticket for this.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Re: Wire Harness Tool

georgeEYNY9 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:41:34 GMT

I work at a company that manufactures a wide range of products, from self-serve kiosks to airport equipment. We are heavily considering Fusion 360, and a wiring harness tool would be the icing on the cake for us.

Re: Wire Harness Tool

joeMVETK — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:43:48 GMT

I really hope Autodesk sees the overwhelming value this feature would bring to Fushion 360. Fusion 360 does work well, but it is not on par with SolidWorks in my opinion. By adding support for wiring harness, Fusion 360 would be instantly become favorite MCAD/ECAD tool. This would save me so much time and frustration. I still have days where I find myself thinking I should just bite the bullet and invest in SolidWorks and Altium. However, this would be far less tempting if Autodesk announced it is at least working on this feature.

Re: Wire Harness Tool

jorge_garcia — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:16:01 GMT

Hello @georgeEYNY9 and @joeMVETK ,

Thank you for bumping this thread, I'll add your comments to the existing tickets for this. This continues to be requested but I don't have any news to share on this front.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Re: Wire Harness Tool

slektning — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:30:02 GMT

hello

any news regarding this issue? we are currently using fusion for all of our engineers, but this is a major issue for us so we are unfortunately considering abandoning fusion for one of your competitors although we have been using Fusion for many years.

Re: Wire Harness Tool

jorge_garcia — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:49:08 GMT

Hello @slektning ,

I hope you're doing well. At this point in time, I don't have an ETA as to when this might be implemented. The immediate solution for now is to use Inventor, it's the only tool at Autodesk that can do Wire Harness design currently.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Re: Wire Harness Tool

eric4XKUT — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:07:19 GMT

Looking forward to further development with a wire harness tool, for automotive collaborations it seems like a no brainer.