Autorouting Cables with Creo Schematics

[ptc-6765149]

Hello everyone,

can someone explain me necessary information vor entry ports to automatically route wires from xml file?

I found these information are necessary for port, but i cant find "PINS" from schematics table only "num_of_pins". Is there another parameter for this?

ENTRY_PORT	yes or no	yes or no
GROUPING	string	round, flat, or wire
INTERNAL_LEN	real number
PINS	string	1, or 1,2, ..., or 1(A), 2(B), 3(C), ...

Hope you can understand my question, i appreciate any help here

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[aoler · Accepted solution]

Your wire in Schematics will terminate to a port. That port will have an entry_port property that will designate a csys on a cad model in Parametric. Many times, simple connectors like a D38999 is a circular connector and the detail for each contact on that connector is not shown. So every port in Schematics on that connector the entry_port value is the same, in my case, the value is entry_port as that is the name of my csys on my cad model. When the cad model is auto designated in Parametric, the csys will also be designated because of that entry_port property and value. Should you be routing to a more complex looking connector that shows each contact, then your entry_port property for each port in Schematics would have a unique value because in parametric, each csys must have a unique name. Typically I still name my csys entry_port but then I add a suffix that matches the name of the contact on the connector per the spec. entry_port_1, entry_port_2, etc. When each port has a unique entry_port, when you autoroute the wires, each wire will go to each csys. When you autoroute your wires and they all go to the same entry_port, then they are arranged as to how ever you have your grouping set, for me it is always set to round, so that all the wires will be centered around the csys.

[ptc-6765149]

Thank you for response! I am not able to test your suggestion until next week, but it sounds exactly like the information i was looking for I will report my experience after testing

[gkoch]

Hello Philipp,

did Aron's reply answer your question?

Thanks,

Gunter

[ptc-6765149]

Thank you very much, that was exactly the information I was looking for