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cworthington1-Visitor
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April 24, 2017
Question

Dispaly Cable Full Colour

  • April 24, 2017
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Hi All,

 

Is it possible to have the entire cable to display its colour in Creo Cable? at the moment only the first say 20 mm is coloured, the rest of the cable is grey.

 

 

Cheers!

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AmitDeshpande18-Opal
18-Opal
April 24, 2017

Hi Carl,

Can you add an image of what you are seeing?  You should be able to see the entire cable in the color that was designated to it.

Thanks,

Amit

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
April 25, 2017

Hi,

upload your data, if you can.

Use How to Attach a File to a Discussion Reply procedure.

MH

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cworthington1-VisitorAuthor
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April 25, 2017

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
April 25, 2017

Hi,

unfortunately picture is not sufficient information.

Please create and upload testing Creo data.

MH

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cworthington1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 25, 2017

Hi,

What information should I Upload?

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cworthington1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 26, 2017

Hi,

I can not see in the spool where the colour is for the cable? Only for the conductor?

Where is the name of the spool shown?

Many Thanks!

Carl

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cworthington1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 26, 2017

Also, How do I get to the cable colours, I can only see whats in the Two spool pictures above.

Many thanks,

Carl

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BrianMartin13-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
April 26, 2017

Hi Carl...

Okay I took a deeper look. I have some questions:

  • You're using Cables but each one only seems to have one individual conductor. Why is this? Are you truly using one-conductor cable? This is possible, I just wanted to ask because it seems a bit strange. Your cables are all named "W#" which, to me, means you really want individual colored wires.
  • If you really want colored wires, you need a wire spool with the color parameter set. This would solve your issue.
  • The cable spool name can be views by selecting Spools-->List from the Cabling application tab. You can also view it from the Electrical Parameters dialog box as shown below...

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  • You're clearly using a logical reference from Schematics - I'd be interested in what that data looks like. Maybe there's an issue on that side of the fence. If the spools are created from the import, you can add COLOR to the Schematics data and it should stick with the cable. If you're reading your spools from a spool library, we can add COLOR to the cable spool definition file.

To add COLOR (or any other parameter if it is not being displayed)...

  1. Go to Spools-->Edit
  2. Insure that the Connections radio button is selected.
  3. At the very top of the Electrical Parameters window, select View-->Columns
  4. Move Color from the Not Displayed column into the Displayed column by selecting it from the entries on the left and using the >> symbol to move it.
  5. Select OK to close the Model Tree Columns window
  6. Click in the cell below the COLOR column for the desired cable.
  7. Manually enter the desired color - or pick from the drop-down of preselected colors.
  8. Select OK to close the Electrical Parameters window.

See below to locate the View-->Columns command...

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Hopefully that gets you a bit farther.

Thanks!

-Brian

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