how to identify harness assembly

[rthelkap]

Hello,

Is there an API to identify an assembly as harness assembly? A special property on assembly file or something like that.

Thank you,

Rakesh

[adam.nagy]

Hi Rakesh,

There was a discussion about it here: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/get-document-subtype-framegenerator-contentcen...

I also wrote a blog post about it now:
http://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2016/02/cable-harness-or-tube-pipe-assembly.html

Cheers,

[Anonymous]

Hi Adam,

I have a query asked by one of our prospect regarding cable and harness in Inventor.

I had created an assembly [ door-hinge mechanism], on plate 1 [grounded] I had assembled connector 1 and on another plate 2 [it will only rotate] I had assembled one more connector 2.

Later routed couple of wires, when the angle between plate 1 and plate 2 is 90 deg, it was showing length as 300 mm.

When I reduced the angle b/w two plates to 45 deg, length of wire is changed, but our prospect is expecting that it must not change the length of wire.

I had tried to find an option to remove adaptivity.

Is there any way we can fix the length of wire using Inventor Customization, when there is change in angular position between connectors [ say in between 20 deg to 90 deg]

Please let me know.

[adam.nagy]

Hi Mahesh,

Cable & Harness has no API and so I'm not very familiar with it. Could be worth asking on the Product forum if there is an option to keep cable length constant.

If not, then I guess maybe you could modify the part with the path (sketch lines) that defines where the cables go in a way that the length will be adjusted. I'm not sure how difficult that would be. 😕

Cheers,

[philip1009]

There isn't a way to identify by Document Subtype or something like that, but you can still apply iProperties to check for in your code such as a custom iProperty, for me all of my cable & harness files are all saved in a folder named "Wiring Schematics", and I can still look for file paths of Documents in the API.  As for any API to manipulate and control the files directly is not possible without an exposed API.