Modeling electrical armoured cable

[chachaman]

Hello,

Is there a design environnement that is best suited for modeling armoured cable ?  I assume the harness environnement is the one, but i dont see any way to select an armoured cable representation.

Thx

[chris]

There isn't, if you want something like that you'll need to make it yourself. The only benefit from the harness environment is the pins, but if you don't need that you can do your entire design without the harness environment. You can either use hoses instead of "wires" or just the regular modeling environment. Here is an example of a system using hoses instead of wires as well as regular sweep models. 

[chris]

@chachaman when you say "armored" cable do you mean MC Cable? MC should be easy to model and route.

[chachaman]

Hello  and Thank you Chris,

I have both Liquid Tight Conduit  and rigid conduit.

I think I will use the harness to represent the the LTC

I was hoping there was a library of rigid conduit and electrical fittings, but so far have not found any. Are you aware if such a library exists?

Thx again

[swalton]

I've been wanting rigid and EMT conduit and fittings in Content Center for 10-15 years. Unfortunately, my employer has had to build out it's own part library.

There are some iparts that may be useful on Charlie Bliss's website here: http://cbliss.com/inventor/Parts/index.htm

[chris]

The last time I used "harness" components for "electric" were pretty light when it came to CC and "libraries". Things may have changed since then, but because the options for electrical components are so numerous with many options, you might find it better to create and author your own part families, which is fairly easy to do. Does your design require import/export to AutoCAD electrical? or do you need to create nailboard layouts...? If not, and it's only for looks, you might want to consider traditional modeling without the routed systems, as no authoring is required.

Both the LTC and MC should be easy to model and route with swept modeling, depending on how many routes you need. I created a series of "zip-ties" with work points for just that purpose, as you see in the above image of the routed "wires", which in fact are hoses and swept routes.

[chris]

@chachaman  Here's a sample of the routes going through my zip tie routes