topic Re: Cable/Harness wire not updating during animation? in Inventor Forum

Cable/Harness wire not updating during animation?

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:15:23 GMT

Is it possible to have a cable/harness wire constantly update it's path during each frame of an animation? Basically I have a cable spanning from a stationary part to an animated rotating door but during animation/render the cable just remains as it was in the first frame of the animation. Any ideas to make this work or is it simply not possible within the current software? Any help or advice would be much appreciated!! Thanks

Re: Cable/Harness wire not updating during animation?

mcgyvr — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:49:32 GMT

I don't believe its possible at this time..

You need to trigger a document update for harnesses to update and it seems that animation doesn't do that..

You can do it with ilogic in the regular part environment but I don't see how to accomplish the same in the studio environment..

Here is an example of creating animations through ilogic..

MyValue = 3 While MyValue < 10 d0 = MyValue System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.Sleep(10) Parameter.UpdateAfterChange = True RuleParametersOutput() InventorVb.DocumentUpdate() MyValue = MyValue + 1 End While System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.Sleep(1000) While MyValue > 2 d0 = MyValue System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.Sleep(10) Parameter.UpdateAfterChange = True RuleParametersOutput() InventorVb.DocumentUpdate() MyValue = MyValue - 1 End While

Re: Cable/Harness wire not updating during animation?

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:15:07 GMT

I thought this might be the case, unfortunate! This is something they should add into next year's edition as it would make animations with cables so much better. Thanks for your help!