topic Re: Assigning reference designators in Inventor Forum

Assigning reference designators

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 06:29:13 GMT

Hi Guys

I'm a electronic Engineer trying to setup cable harness, so that i can collaborate with AutoCAD electrical. I am battling with the unique RefDes assigment. we have several occurances of the same part. when i change the RefDes of one occurance all the other automatically have the same value. What am i missing? What do we have to change.

Thanks for any help provided

Re: Assigning reference designators

Xun.Zhang — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 04:10:43 GMT

Assume you have to modify the designations in the AutoCAD electrical and then bring into Inventor.

Hope it helps!

Re: Assigning reference designators

JarFu — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 22:39:38 GMT

Hi Oliver,

We should define the RefDes for Cable Harness Part Occurrence. Which means we need put the part component into Harness assembly as attachment. Then right-click part occurrence to run Harness Properties to add RefDes.

Re: Assigning reference designators

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 19:34:33 GMT

Thanks for the reply, but that is exactly what i was doing. But since i have more than one occurance in my design the change of the value automatically applies to the others as well.

I have now found a possible way. I just have to link the components manually instead of the desired automatical linkage, during wire list import.

kind regards

Oliver