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Im not able to see the wire defaults in the Variable studio , which is shown in the wiring harness routing demo video.
please suggest.
I m not able to place the wire connector in the model. please check the below image.
But i want to create bundle directly on the wires. Please suggest.
⭐ Broken out end conditions into separate options for more control
To update an existing route, the options for first/second strip may look wrong, but the result is correct. If you edit the options, you may have to edit both of them to get it back to how it was. This was required for updating.
The new jacket end conditions are great!
It would be neat to have an option to generate these automatically, although probably only useful in the "straight" config of the part...
Maybe a 3rd option (next to Connector and Terminal) to define a socket and a section in the Connector to link them together? When inserting a connector you would then be prompted to select a pin/socket to populate the used connector positions.
There are some interesting consideration with some connectors having a wide range of sockets to pick from, including different versions based on the wire size, it would be great to be able to define acceptable wire range for each one to get some built-in error checking (and to have the inserted connector populate the correct ones based on wire size).
Now that I think of it, it might be useful in the current wire connector feature to define compatible wire sizes for extra protection from design errors...
I'm using the wiring feature a lot, and there are a few things that I'm missing or that are not working as I would expect:
These issues would improve the functionality and usability of the wiring feature also when its needed to produce the wire harness from the tables.
⭐ Fixed an issue with wire length calculations when "Follow first wire" is selected
Big thanks to @Wout_Van_Gerven for finding this.
So, what now?
Ex: I have a harness going around a roof, with several branches to lights. In the tutorial, I don't see any way a harness producer would know where to join the highlighted cable into the harness, how much it should protrude on either side, etc.
If I'm missing something, please let me know. If those feature(s) are not included, are they planned?