Contents

Electrical routing design

1. Electrical routing design workflow

1. Electrical routing design workflow

1. Electrical Routing command

1. Using BlueDots to Reposition Conductors and Components (ordered environment)

1. Connect curves with BlueDot in Electrical Routing (ordered modeling)

1. Creating the electrical routing design manually

1. Creating the electrical routing manually

1. Path command

1. Edit Path Command

1. Path command bar

1. Route command

1. Route along Surface command

1. Route along Surface command bar

1. Route a harness entity along a surface

1. Edit the path of a electrical routing conductor

1. Show All Paths command

1. Construct a path through selected keypoints

1. Wire command

1. Wire command bar

1. Show All Wires command

1. Hide All Wires command

1. Wire Properties Command

1. Display Properties for a Harness Element

1. Create a wire

1. Cable command

1. Cable command bar

1. Create a cable

1. Show All Cables command

1. Hide All Cables command

1. Bundle command

1. Bundle command bar

1. Show All Bundles command

1. Hide All Bundles command

1. Create a wire harness bundle

1. Create a bundle across a splice

1. Splice command

1. Splice command bar

1. Splice Properties dialog box

1. Assign Terminals dialog box (Splice)

1. Add a splice

1. Add a wire to a splice

1. Remove a wire from a splice

1. Change the splice location

1. Change splice properties

1. Display Harness Elements

1. Creating harness component solid bodies

1. Create Physical Conductor command

1. Create a harness component solid body

1. Delete Physical Conductor command

1. Show Physical Conductor command

1. Show All Physical Conductors command

1. Removing conductors

1. Hide Physical Conductor command

1. Hide All Physical Conductors command

1. Delete a wire component solid body

1. Show All Harnesses command

1. Hide All Harnesses command

1. Remove command (Electrical Routing)

1. Outputting electrical routing information to other formats

1. Outputting electrical routing information to other formats

1. Outputting to Capital format

1. Outputting to DSI format

1. Save As ECAD command

1. Save As ECAD dialog box

1. Save As (Components or Connections) dialog box

1. Save component and connection information to ECAD format

1. PathFinder in electrical routing

1. Using the Harness Wizard to create harness designs automatically

1. Creating a wire harness automatically

1. Harness Wizard command

1. Harness Populate Options dialog box

1. Using step 1 of the Harness Wizard

1. Using step 2 of the Harness Wizard

1. Using step 3 of the Harness Wizard

1. Harness Wizard - Step 1 of 3

1. Harness Wizard - Step 2 of 3

1. Harness Wizard - Step 3 of 3

1. Linking 3D Electrical parts in Wiring Harness

1. Mapping electrical component ids in PathFinder

1. Use Harness Wizard to create a harness design

1. Connection Options dialog box

1. Assign Terminals command

1. Assign Terminals dialog box

1. Assign component and terminal names

1. Properties command (Electrical Routing)

1. Properties dialog box (Electrical Routing)

1. Custom Attributes dialog box

1. Edit Definition command (Electrical Routing)

1. Edit Definition command bar

1. Edit the definition of a wire harness conductor

1. Harness Reports command

1. Harness Reports dialog box

1. Create a Harness report

1. Try It: Wire Harness

1. Activity: Adding a splice to a wire

1. Activity: Splitting and reusing a path

1. Activity Assigning the terminal

1. Activity: Creating a wire harness with Electrical Routing

1. Test your knowledge: Wire harness

2. Working with QY CAD Wiring and Harness Design

2. Working with QY CAD Wiring and Harness Design

2. Configure command

2. Configure QY CAD connection properties

2. Configure QY CAD Wiring and Harness Design connection properties

2. Connection Properties dialog box

2. Connect command

2. Connect to QY CAD Wiring and Harness Design for data exchange

2. Update Harness command

2. Assign Occurrence/Component dialog box

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

2. Cross Select command

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

2. Reject command

2. Reject harness design updates

3. Working with QY CAD PCB Collaboration

3. Working with QY CAD PCB Collaboration

3. ECAD Collaborator command

3. ECAD Collaborator dialog box

3. Use ECAD Collaborator to Export PCB data

3. Use ECAD Collaborator to import PCB data

3. New Board Assembly command

3. New Board Assembly dialog box (Step 1 of 2)

3. New Board Assembly dialog box (Step 2 of 2)

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

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

3. Importing copper data

3. Properties command (PCB Collaboration)

3. Properties dialog box (PCB Collaboration)

3. View and edit PCB item properties

3. Settings command

3. PCB Collaborator Settings dialog box

3. Change the PCB Collaborator settings

3. Filters command

3. Filters dialog box

3. Define display criteria for PCB items

3. Using realistic 3D components in board assemblies

3. Change 3D model assignments

3. Viewing PCB Collaborator log files

4. Working with nailboards

4. Working with nailboards

4. Creating nailboards

4. Creating nailboard views

4. Nailboard View command

4. Nailboard View command bar

4. Nailboard Options dialog box

4. Select Conductor dialog box

4. General tab (Nailboard Drawing View)

4. Create a nailboard view

4. Editing nailboards

4. Editing the flattened geometry in the nailboard view

4. Insert Bend command

4. Insert Bend command bar

4. Insert a bend in a nailboard

4. Edit a nailboard bend

4. Printing nailboard views

4. Printing nailboard views

4. Print a nailboard view with Adobe Reader

4. Working with nailboard connectors

4. Creating connector views

4. Connector Drawing View command

4. Creating connector tables

4. Create a connector drawing view

4. Connector Table command

4. Connector Table command bar

4. Connector Table Properties dialog box

4. Options tab (Connector Table Properties dialog box)

4. Create a connector table

4. Update a connector table

4. Working with nailboard conductors

4. Creating conductor tables

4. Conductor Table command

4. Conductor Table command bar

4. Conductor Table Properties dialog box

4. Create a conductor table

4. Update a conductor table

4. Try It: Nailboards

4. Activity: Creating and editing a nailboard view

4. Activity: Creating a connector view and connector table

4. Activity: Creating a conductor table

4. Test your knowledge: Nailboards

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