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pacoliketaco
25-04-2008, 22:04
so i have been trying to add pwm cables to my robots, but i just cant seem to get it right. i made the connectors, pin groups, pwm library wire, but it isnt quite working. im not sure why there is a massive red slash in the middle and why it is not making all three wires, only two.
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e82/pacoliketaco/pwm1.jpg
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e82/pacoliketaco/pwm2.jpg
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e82/pacoliketaco/pwm3.jpg
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e82/pacoliketaco/pwm4.jpg

tdlrali
25-04-2008, 22:23
Increase the width and see what happens. My guess is that Inventor doesn't think it can fit three leads onto the ribbon.

Aceanuu
26-04-2008, 04:21
Actually, as far as I'm aware, thats the way it works. It only does the two end cables and a swath of a color in between. Frankly, people dont usually need a photorealistic render, so the two round cables on the end and the filler in between do just fine for a program like inventor. In my robot, I did make one instance of a ribbon cable that was 4 cables of different colors... but I really just made two ribbon cables and put them next to each other... so you can't tell.

So you aren't doing it wrong, that is simply how inventor does it.