Wiring the robot in inventor.
 

Can anyone give me a walkthrough of wiring in inventor. I currently know of the different piping commands, but am unable to find a wiring command. Any help will be welcomed. We have a control board that needs wiring, and if you can help me, it would be greatly appreciated.

-The Mad CADder

Re: Wiring the robot in inventor.
 

I'm not aware of any "wiring" command(s). I use sweep features.

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Reply to vV,

Inventor Pro 10 has wiring harness creation built in. Can't help much more because we haven't gotten that far yet.

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you might want to try private messenging Robert Thacker- . he is one of the inventor guys on our team and h really knows what hes doing. last year, a kid who graduated wired the robot in inventor, but im sure rob knows how to do it as well, seeing as it has to get done for this year :rolleyes:

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Are there any drawings of the wire fittings? By fittings i mean ;example; the part between the controller board and wire.

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Use Sweep comand and a work plane over your electronics board.
I hope this helps.

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I saw a tutorial on the wiring/plumbing features somewhere on the autodesk website.

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There should be a book called "Routed Systems: Getting Started" that came with the inventor package. It's got instructions on how to make flexible tubing, wires, harnesses and pretty much anything else for the electrical system. Chapter 8 and beyond is what you'll want.

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I assume you mean crimp terminals...
*checks vKOP*
As far as I can find, there are only two in the vKOP ("Terminal Supply Bag" folder), but they should be pretty easy to make.
I'll mess around with it next time I get a chance and maybe post a model or at least instructions.

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In 103 we wired our robot last year. There are two ways of doing the wiring, our way looks more like a schematic (what we wanted). If you want I can walk you through it one day just IM me I have inventor here. Jaymacdaddy0204

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One piece that makes wiring in inventor easier, wehn using inventor 10, is having anderson connectors and crimps to use as your endpoints. then you create a new segment, and add waypoints until it fits your desired wire path.

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I was unable to find the harness part feature in my version of inventor. Is there an add-on for the harness part feature? We are using Autodesk Inventor Professional 10.

The Mad CADder
aka
"Lazer" (pictures coming soon)

Re: Wiring the robot in inventor.
 

Can't quite remember but, it may have been on disc 4?

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Yeah, it's on the disc with the modules and content center stuff. An easy way to discover If you have all of that is to try runing design accelerator, and trying to make a sprocket or two. If you can't, you don't have the content center and modules. (yes, they're worth a total re-install)