CREO 2 WIRE COLORS AND HARNESS COVERINGS

[cworthington]

Hi All,

Is there any way to get the wires in CREO CABLE to show their actual colors? I only get the default all grey.

The spools show "RED" under "COLOUR" etc but always grey.

Also, is there any way to add coverings like conduit or tube etc. ? I tried the "BUNDLE" feature but can not define the outer diameter of the bundle so its not good.

Cheers,

[MartinHanak]

Hi,

your appearance set must contain color of the same name ... i.e. RED.

MH

[cworthington]

Hi,

How do I do that, can you show an example?

[MartinHanak]

Hi,

login to PTC Support and see http://support.ptc.com/cs/cs_26/howto/cab3364/cab3364.htm page.

MH

[cworthington]

Hi,

I have no way of login in as it asks for upgraded accounts.

I have it now where say the first 10mm of the cable are the correct colour but the rest is still grey?

[MartinHanak]

See attached file.

[cworthington]

Hi,

The issue seems to be that when wires are added, it adds two? so there is two "W23" one is "W23" and one is "W23:RD" The "W23:RD" is at the start end of the cable, you can see in the picture. This one is coloured. The "W23" is in-between these and is Grey.

Why is this???

[jschau]

Hi Carl,

It looks like W23 in your tree is a Cable and W23:RD is a Conductor. Currently the color is only applied to the conductor, not the full cable.

If you want it to be red the entire way then go to your spools and edit the spool for the cable. Make sure the connections radial button is selected. Change the color parameter to match the name of the red color from your appearance manager. If the color parameter is not available then go to View>columns to add the color column.

It is worth investigating whether or not you truly want it to be a Cable or if you just need a Wire. This depends on where your logic came from and how that is imported into Creo.