Hi All,
Hopefully you can help with the folllowing-
The Issue
My company uses Creo 2 and Teamcenter as a CAD vault. We have the Creo cabling and piping application. My issue concerns hose and wire representation as a piece part, inside an assembly and then inside a top level assembly. More specifically- I have PN 12345, 14 Ga insulated wire. I would like to save a model and drawing of this to the CAD vault. This 12345 is used inside 5 different assemblies however. 1 assembly needs the wire to be 10" long with 2 lugs, 1 assembly needs the wire to be 5" long with 1 lug. Both will need drawings and assemblies saved to the CAD vault as well. We take this structure one step further and place these assemblies into assembly and outline drawings, where the wire sometimes needs to be routed past different obstacles.
My Initial Thoughts
My first thought was to use the flexibility feature in this manner- define a curve at the PN 12345 level made up of say 5 points/coord sys, 2 at the connection points and 3 along the curve path. Each point would be defined with offset (initially 0) from the default planes. Then, insert this PN into an assembly and assemble the lugs to the end points. Then, place this assembly inside the top level assembly. The first point would be constrained to its mounting location and the rest of the points would be defined as flexible for all 3 offsets. The curve would then follow these mobile points. The issue with this process is the orientation of lug mounting surfaces based on just points and massive amounts of user effort/input to get all the points correct.
Perfect World Solution
The part number model and drawing would be a straight line hose or wire. The kit level drawings and models would all use the one wire/hose model but include differing lengths and connectors. Ideally the flexible length would show as qty for the wire in the BOM. The upper level assembly and drawing would show these kit level parts routed throughout the machine. For BOM, repeat region, and CAD vaulting purposes we cannot have multiple parts with the same PN.
Is there a better way to do this? Any suggestions? I suspect I'm not the only one who has to show 3 levels of wiring in this way...
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