I let AutoCAD Electrical handle the Electrical components, and I let Inventor handle the Mechanical Componets. (Instead of calling out 4 push buttons for harness1, 2 push buttons for harness 2, etc) Normally I avoid breaking out the components from the harness so it calls for 1 harness1, 1 harness 2, etc. In both case you may have to remove duplicate data. If you were using Vault pro I would suggest using an Item master to take the info from both and let Vault sort out the data. You could export both of the boms (one from ACADE and one from Inventor) then merge them in Excel.

Not sure if this answers your questions but I hope it helps,

there is a link between the two programs but it is very limited at this point in time. Inventor uses the cable and harness toolset to import the wire data (which has wire layers and connection points, and in 2015 we can link it to 3d models 'directly'). Its hard to explain in a few sentences but the main idea is the 2D schematics are still done in ACADE and you Export the wire data to inventor to make a 3D Panel. ( I have actual added the height and length of the Panel a few times to make sure a cable could reach anywhere in a panel).Īnd I guess the last thing you wanted to know was for the Integration between AutoCAD Electrical and Inventor. If you asking what the best practice I would say add a foot on each end. So no formula to share since their isn't any. That is setup in inventor not ACADE, and its not available unless you export the inventor data back into AutoCAD Electrical at which point it auto assigns the wire length based on the information from inventor. (AB and Eaton Released add-on packs for the addational content you can find it on the autodesk website)Īs for wire length calculations, I assume you mean the Extra % of wire added to the wire length from Inventor in the cable and harness section. If its the full library in ACADE, you select the manufacturers during installation.

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