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Weight for cable & harness

Weight for cable & harness

It would be really nice to be able to do a weight estimate for the harness assemblies I make.

I have to do this by hand at the moment and would like to have done this automatically in the BOM.

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filat
Advisor

Need to make it possible to define the density of the cable, so that its mass is taken into account when calculating the weight of the assembly.

Anonymous
Not applicable

We recently took a Class on "Cable and Harness" but came across a section where we want to add a MATERIAL to a custom Wire Size and Loom Size. Right now I currently use Autocadd 3D to draw 3D cable and I take the Mass from cad and pull that into Excel which then tells me my Length of Cable, Weight of Cable(from its density), and Weight of Paper with the formulas I have created. In inventor it will tell me the Length of my "WIRE" but since It does not have any I-properties there is not way to give the "WIRES" a density to then determine the Weight of my cables. I know I can do the hand calculation on my own but it would be nice to pull of this info in 1 Report from Inventor. i thought it was great to be able to draw my WIRE and LOOM( I am using the LOOM as my Paper Insulation around the Wires) seperate to then be able to pull that information into a Report but thats not possible without having any I-properties / Materials assigned to these. So can we please add this to a future Update.

 

Thanks,

 

Chad Williamson

 

chad.williamson@meppi.com

 

 

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