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April 10, 2025
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How to have Cable with different SPOOLs in a Harness

  • April 10, 2025
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How to have Cable with different Spools in a Harness?

See Image attached. Green and Yellow need different spools. Spool option to change is grayed out for YELLOW. If changed for GREEN, Yellow also changes.

 

THANKS! 

Best answer by Lars_F

Hi,

 

I believe that you just first create the spools you need. Do you have the necessary spools available? Each color cable must have it's own spool.

 

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If you route manually then you can select the spool to be used when you route from - to...

 

Cabling is much easier if you use Schematics to create the logical connections. The two spools are actual different components with thickness and color. The quantity is variable... 

 

Lars_F_2-1744450827513.jpeg

 

Br,

Lars

 

 

 

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Lars_F14-AlexandriteAnswer
14-Alexandrite
April 12, 2025

Hi,

 

I believe that you just first create the spools you need. Do you have the necessary spools available? Each color cable must have it's own spool.

 

Lars_F_0-1744450560287.jpeg

Lars_F_1-1744450639357.jpeg

 

If you route manually then you can select the spool to be used when you route from - to...

 

Cabling is much easier if you use Schematics to create the logical connections. The two spools are actual different components with thickness and color. The quantity is variable... 

 

Lars_F_2-1744450827513.jpeg

 

Br,

Lars

 

 

 

Yogesh.T
Yogesh.T14-AlexandriteAuthor
14-Alexandrite
April 12, 2025

Hi, This is exactly I am stuck at. I cannot change my spool for the other two cables that follow the first one. I can change for the first, but it changes for all in the cables done in that Harness.  

Yogesh
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Lars_F14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
April 14, 2025

Hi,

 

You probably have a different version of creo? Attached is the simple test assembly (Creo9) I used. Two Spools and two cables. I can't actually change the spool for any cable after it is routed. But if I first delete the cable then I can make a new cable with a different spool. In the sample below I deleted Cable1 and routed it again with a black spool... the new name is Cable3 (in component coax_test.prt).

 

If you use a logical file and you made changes to spools or connections then you have to use the "Update"-menu option until it shows that nothing to update anymore. I have noticed that many times I have to delete cables and spools before the "update" says that everything is OK (update-regen-delete-update-regen-delete).

 

Br, Lars

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