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Electrical routing design

Electrical routing design workflow

Electrical routing design workflow

Electrical Routing command

Using BlueDots to Reposition Conductors and Components (ordered environment)

Connect curves with BlueDot in Electrical Routing (ordered modeling)

Creating the electrical routing design manually

Creating the electrical routing manually

Path command

Edit Path Command

Path command bar

Route command

Route along Surface command

Route along Surface command bar

Route a harness entity along a surface

Edit the path of a electrical routing conductor

Show All Paths command

Construct a path through selected keypoints

Wire command

Wire command bar

Show All Wires command

Hide All Wires command

Wire Properties Command

Display Properties for a Harness Element

Create a wire

Cable command

Cable command bar

Create a cable

Show All Cables command

Hide All Cables command

Bundle command

Bundle command bar

Show All Bundles command

Hide All Bundles command

Create a wire harness bundle

Create a bundle across a splice

Splice command

Splice command bar

Splice Properties dialog box

Assign Terminals dialog box (Splice)

Add a splice

Add a wire to a splice

Remove a wire from a splice

Change the splice location

Change splice properties

Display Harness Elements

Creating harness component solid bodies

Create Physical Conductor command

Create a harness component solid body

Delete Physical Conductor command

Show Physical Conductor command

Show All Physical Conductors command

Removing conductors

Hide Physical Conductor command

Hide All Physical Conductors command

Delete a wire component solid body

Show All Harnesses command

Hide All Harnesses command

Remove command (Electrical Routing)

Outputting electrical routing information to other formats

Outputting electrical routing information to other formats

Outputting to Capital format

Outputting to DSI format

Save As ECAD command

Save As ECAD dialog box

Save As (Components or Connections) dialog box

Save component and connection information to ECAD format

PathFinder in electrical routing

Using the Harness Wizard to create harness designs automatically

Creating a wire harness automatically

Harness Wizard command

Harness Populate Options dialog box

Using step 1 of the Harness Wizard

Using step 2 of the Harness Wizard

Using step 3 of the Harness Wizard

Harness Wizard - Step 1 of 3

Harness Wizard - Step 2 of 3

Harness Wizard - Step 3 of 3

Linking 3D Electrical parts in Wiring Harness

Use Harness Wizard to create a harness design

Connection Options dialog box

Assign Terminals command

Assign Terminals dialog box

Assign component and terminal names

Properties command (Electrical Routing)

Properties dialog box (Electrical Routing)

Custom Attributes dialog box

Edit Definition command (Electrical Routing)

Edit Definition command bar

Edit the definition of a wire harness conductor

Harness Reports command

Harness Reports dialog box

Create a Harness report

Working with QY CAD Wiring and Harness Design

Working with QY CAD Wiring and Harness Design

Configure command

Configure QY CAD connection properties

Configure QY CAD Wiring and Harness Design connection properties

Connection Properties dialog box

Connect command

Connect to QY CAD Wiring and Harness Design for data exchange

Update Harness command

Assign Occurrence/Component dialog box

Update the harness design to match QY CAD Wiring and Harness Design

Cross Select command

Cross select objects between QY CAD and QY CAD Wiring and Harness Design

Reject command

Reject harness design updates

Working with QY CAD PCB Collaboration

Working with QY CAD PCB Collaboration

ECAD Collaborator command

ECAD Collaborator dialog box

Use ECAD Collaborator to Export PCB data

Use ECAD Collaborator to import PCB data

New Board Assembly command

New Board Assembly dialog box (Step 1 of 2)

New Board Assembly dialog box (Step 2 of 2)

Create a new board based on the information you enter in the wizard

Create a board based on the data imported from an existing ECAD file

Importing copper data

Properties command (PCB Collaboration)

Properties dialog box (PCB Collaboration)

View and edit PCB item properties

Settings command

PCB Collaborator Settings dialog box

Change the PCB Collaborator settings

Filters command

Filters dialog box

Define display criteria for PCB items

Using realistic 3D components in board assemblies

Change 3D model assignments

Viewing PCB Collaborator log files

Working with nailboards

Working with nailboards

Creating nailboard views

Nailboard View command

Nailboard View command bar

Nailboard Options dialog box

Select Conductor dialog box

General tab (Nailboard Drawing View)

Create a nailboard view

Editing the flattened geometry in the nailboard view

Insert Bend command

Insert Bend command bar

Insert a bend in a nailboard

Edit a nailboard bend

Printing nailboard views

Print a nailboard view with Adobe Reader

Creating connector views

Connector Drawing View command

Creating connector tables

Create a connector drawing view

Connector Table command

Connector Table command bar

Connector Table Properties dialog box

Options tab (Connector Table Properties dialog box)

Create a connector table

Update a connector table

Creating conductor tables

Conductor Table command

Conductor Table command bar

Conductor Table Properties dialog box

Create a conductor table

Update a conductor table

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