I am working on an assemlby of a electronics box with a circuitboard and harnesses contained within. There are 2 different harnesses, and the assembly will use 4 of each type of harness.
I want to pull 4 instances of each harness into the main assembly, and define each harness component (electrical connector) within the assemlby. Problem is, when Idefine one connector, the other connector(and connector in the root harness assembly) moves with it. I've been trying all day to make this harness and make all the harnesses independent from each other.
I've figured out how to make a wire using Pro/Cable, but don't know how to do a bundle, or route that bundle of wires. Instead, I just made my patter of datum points on each of the connectors and drew some datum curves to symbolize wires. That's another battle.
What I'm concerned with is getting these connectors in teh right positions, with wires, as an assembly separate from the main box assembly. I've spent about 3 hours messing with the "Flexible" feature, but can't add component position definitions to the flexible list.
Surely I can do this??? See attached jpg for what I'm doing. There are 4 harnesses in the pic currently because I made them all separate parts with different names (-1 through -4). Problem with that is my BOM will be messed up. Yes, there are ways around it, but I want to do this right.
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I want to pull 4 instances of each harness into the main assembly, and define each harness component (electrical connector) within the assemlby. Problem is, when Idefine one connector, the other connector(and connector in the root harness assembly) moves with it. I've been trying all day to make this harness and make all the harnesses independent from each other.
I've figured out how to make a wire using Pro/Cable, but don't know how to do a bundle, or route that bundle of wires. Instead, I just made my patter of datum points on each of the connectors and drew some datum curves to symbolize wires. That's another battle.
What I'm concerned with is getting these connectors in teh right positions, with wires, as an assembly separate from the main box assembly. I've spent about 3 hours messing with the "Flexible" feature, but can't add component position definitions to the flexible list.
Surely I can do this??? See attached jpg for what I'm doing. There are 4 harnesses in the pic currently because I made them all separate parts with different names (-1 through -4). Problem with that is my BOM will be messed up. Yes, there are ways around it, but I want to do this right.
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