Adding straight lenght to entry port in Cabling

[allenbarb]

I have been able to route a number of harnesses in the Creo 2.0 Cabling application but I can not figure out how to maintain a certain straight length to each end of the harness. In other words, I need a minimum of 10mm straight length leaving each connector. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Allen

 

[giggity]

How about adding an extrusion on the end of the connector and putting the entry port on the end of that?

 

[allenbarb]

I wanted to make the wiring as one piece. What I ended up doing was adding a datum point 10mm from the CSYS I created and then adding it as a location in the wire route. It seemed to work!

One other general question I have is, for those of you who use this application in CREO how do you set up the assemblies? I was thinking I would create a separate wiring assembly and add it to my top level assembly. Now, here is the tricky part. I tried doing an external shrinkwrap of the entire assembly and placing it in the wiring assembly. Then, I tried to run the wire from the points in the External Shrinkwrap but now it wont let me since CREO sees the External Shrinkwrap as one connector.

 

[giggity]

Are the connectors separate parts from the External Shrinkwrap in the assembly?

 

[allenbarb]

They can be since I am just starting the wiring assembly. So I can constrain the connectors to the external shrink wrap? Then route the wires to the connectors?

 

[giggity]

That is the method I recommend.
Cable Assembly
-Shrinkwrap
-Connector 1
-Connector 2
-Harness

Make Shrinkwrap default constraint, constrain connectors to Shrinkwrap, designate connectors and their entry ports, route cable from connector 1 to connector 2, route cable and place locations on Shrinkwrap.

 

[allenbarb]

Thanks for the advice. We are just now learning ProE/CREO at my company so I have been tasked to learning as many aspects to CREO. So many more questions to come! My past experience has been with SolidWorks.

 

[giggity]

I was kinda in the same boat and took the lead on learning Cabling. I had the project pay for the training that PTC offers and that helped a bit. Most of the time I was learning the hard way.