Pro/Cable question -

[norman.melanson]

<DIV =forum>Hello all,

I'm fairly new to Pro/Cabling and need a bit of help.

Is it possible to create 1 cable assembly (*.asm) using multiple XML's from RSD, to create 1 flattenned harness design to eventually create 1 nailboard for this cable assembly?? For example, imagine a an airplaine's electrical harness assembly which consist of multiple cables, harnesses and individual conductors, that would run from one end to the other of the airplane, and which would be 1 part that is manufactured, on a nailboard in a shop somewhere, then eventually placed in the airplane. Is it possible to do this in ProE? If yes, how??

Thanks,

Norm. </DIV>

 

[design-engine]

yes... .and exactly how to route harness from RSD might be a little out of the league for a forum like this since the one week class PTC offers is not enough time to be good at it.Also... no big deal but you posted this in the wrong spot.

[url]http://www.mcadcentral.com/proe/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=1 7 [/url]

You want the Routed Systems section. You might offer a more specific question and later relate that to routing a conductor from one end to the next.

in a Nut shell you model the conductor (or many conductors) in RSD then route a network (expressway route) the harness will take. You often use Top down design to gather from top level assemblies where bulkhead and other claimed space that is relative. Then your network route goes up and over pre claimed rel estate.
My question is why use multiple xml imports?Just use one.You have to design the wiring diagram anyway, may as well do one. Name each conductor and specify a spool then create the logical references in Pro/E... connectors etc. The trick is to get those logical references to match up inside the RSD model.

All the military airplane manufactures use Pro/CABLE and not always with RSD by the way. My hunch is that this year you will see a big push to learn RSD in the military sector. General Atomics, Northrup Grumman, general dynamics. Boeing might be slower to migrate I would guess.

You are using all the correct vocabulary which makes me believe you are not the beginner.


Edited by: design-engine

 

[norman.melanson]

Well, we actually create individual cable/harness assemblies and bundles these all together in a machine, i.e we would have for example 4-5 USB cable assembliesof diferent lenghts and 3-4 VGA cable assemblies,power harnesse assemblies, all of which are designed/created seperately in RSD, These are then created and routed as individual assemblies in proE.Then, wetake and have all thesecable/harness assembliesassembled individually in a larger top level assembly.


My end goal is to take these individual cable/harness assemblies and flatten them out as the 1 larger top level assembly to create 1 nailboard for all the cable/harness assemblies to be assembled in manufacturing as 1 physical bundle. My first hunch was to see if importing multiple xml's was possible and would it do the trick.


The tutorials don't even come close to showing what I need to do...