Route Harnesses
The design of the harness, in terms of components, runs under SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic.
SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D
only allows for the automatic routing of harness cables and wires.
The Harness management
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SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D
Toolbar (Project) |
The Harness management allows
you to view and delete harness component parts. Adding items is
possible in SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic.
Harness routing
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SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D
menu: Route Harnesses
Menu: Tools > SOLIDWORKS Electrical
> Route Harnesses |
The dockable panel changes to display the routing options.
Several of these parameters are saved in the SOLIDWORKS Electrical
file, they are specific to the file. The others are saved in the registry
and they are common to all SOLIDWORKS Electrical
files.
Routing Analysis
Show errors: This option, when
activated, lets you display a report at the end of the routing. This report
shows all routing errors. Click the Help
button on a line of the report to obtain information about the routing
error.
Select renderer type
Add tangency: Allows curves
to be automatically generated at the end of the straight lines.
Harness selection
All harnesses: Launches routing
across all of the electrical project harnesses for which all components
are present in the assembly.
Selected harnesses: Launches
the routing on your choice of the electrical project harnesses. Click
the Harness selector button to
select the harnesses you wish to route.
Routing parameters
The first parameter allows you to enter the distance between two routing
paths.
The second parameter allows you to enter the distance between a connection
point and a routing path.
Manual harness: If you activate
this option, the "From to list" is imported, the route is not
created and only the guidelines are available. You are free to route the
harness manually.
The graph allows you to quickly view connections between components.
There are two buttons available: one for display, and one for deletion.
Harness flattening and integration into electrical project
Once the harness is routed, you can generate a flattening.
Use the SOLIDWORKS
Flatten route command in the Routing menu or in SOLIDWORKS Electrical
menu the to generate this view.
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SOLIDWORKS
Routing menu: Flatten route
SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D
menu: Flatten route |
The file can then be added as an electrical project drawing with the
2D drawing/Create a drawing in the project
command.