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Cable and Harness DesignAutodesk Inventor Professional streamlines cable andharness design by leveraging wire list information importedfrom schematic design packages such as AutoCAD ®Electrical.Incorporating cable andharness runs into yourdigital prototypes savestime and money byallowing you to calculateaccurate path lengths,avoid small radius bends,and help electricalcomponents fit into themechanical assemblybefore manufacturing.Functional Harness DesignDesign cable and harness components in 3D toreduce manufacturing problems, facilitate outputof manufacturing drawings, and avoid late-stageengineering change orders. In Inventor software,wire list and connector information drives harnessdesign with built-in cross-checking of electrical andmechanical data. This allows you to make sure thatall wires and connectors in the wire list are representedin the 3D cable design.Wire List InputMaintain electrical design intent and reduce errorswhen importing wire lists into the assembly. Quicklyimport large wire lists from AutoCAD ® Electrical orthird-party schematic design applications, with detectionand correction of missing connectors, pins,and wire definitions.Wire RoutingQuickly route thousands of wires while exertingcontrol over the paths of critical wires. Inventorsupports manual, interactive, and automatic routingwith accurate wire length calculation. Manualrouting requires the explicit selection of the wire’spath. Interactive routing requires selection of thestart/end points, after which the system algorithmchooses the shortest path. In automatic routing, thesystem finds the shortest possible path based on allavailable paths.Harness Path DefinitionOptimize the design of cable and harness assembliesto help proper spacing for manufacturing andto reduce errors in manufacturing caused by incompleteproduct definition. Define harness and cablepaths using a point-and-click methodology thatcreates 3D virtual conduits (segments) in the model.Create associative relationships that will update theharness whenever you change a design component.Add points or move existing points to refine theoverall shape of the harness.9