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Procedure: Creating Splices with Logical Data

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Procedure Setup:
1. To avoid naming conflicts, it is recommended you save your work, click File > Close until no models
display, then click File > Manage Session > Erase Not Displayed.

2. Click File > Manage Session > Set Working Directory and navigate to the
PTCU\CreoParametric2\Cabling\Splices_Logical folder and click OK

3. Click File > Open and double-click CABLING.ASM.

Task 1. Update logical information in Creo Parametric.

1. Disable all Datum Display types.

2. Select Appearances Manager from the Appearance Gallery types drop-down list.

3. Click File > Open in the Appearances Manager dialog box.

4. Select WIRE_COLORS.DMT, then click Open.

5. Click Override all in the Warning message window, then click Close.

6. In the ribbon, select the Applications tab.

7. Click Cabling from the Engineering group.

8. Enable only the following Cabling Display types: .

9. In the ribbon, click Modify Harness from the Harness group and click HARNESS_1 > Done
from the menu manager.

10. Review the image of the updated Creo Schematics diagram.

◾ Notice that splines SP-01 and SP-02 have been inserted.

◾ Spline SP-01 is a through splice.

◾ Spline SP-02 is a butt splice.

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11. In the ribbon, click Import from the Logical Data group.

12. Click RS Designer > Whole XML from the menu manager.

13. In the File Open dialog box, double-click WIRING_SPLICES.XML.

14. In the ribbon, click Update from the Logical Data group.

15. In the menu manager, click Select All > Done Sel.

Task 2. Create the through splice in the cabling assembly.

1. Notice that wires have been edited in the cabling assembly. A portion of the red W-1 wire has been
deleted, and a separate location on the white W-2 wire has been created.

Figure 2

2. In the ribbon, click Insert Component from the Components group.

3. Double-click SPLICE_2-1.PRT in the Open dialog box.

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4. Enable Csys Display .

5. Zoom in on the splice component in the sub-window and select coordinate system IN_1.

6. Select Splice as the Component Type in the Place Component dialog box.
◾ Select the location point as the Cable Location.

◾ Select row SP-01 as the Reference Designator, if necessary, and click OK.

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7. Click Done from the menu manager.

8. In the Cable Paths Setup dialog box, select the W-2 row.
◾ Click Select Exit Path and select coordinate system OUT.

◾ Select Yes for the Show option, then click OK.

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9. Click Update .

10. Notice that splice SP-01 is in the menu manager list.

11. From the menu manager, click Select All > Done Sel.

12. In the ribbon, click Route Cables from the Route group.

13. Click No in the Component Designation message window.

14. Select the incomplete red W-1 wire in the graphics window.

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15. Click OK in the Route cables dialog box.

Task 3. Create the butt splice in the cabling assembly.

1. Notice that wires have been edited in the cabling assembly. A portion of the blue W-3 and white
W-4 wires has been deleted.

Figure 6

2. In the ribbon, select the Applications tab and click Cabling from the Engineering group.

3. In the ribbon, select the Model tab.

4. Click Assemble from the Component group and double-click SPLICE_2-1.PRT.

◾ Drag the model to the approximate location and orient it.

◾ Select the main cabling assembly surface and query-select the bottom flat splice surface to
create the Coincident constraint.

◾ Further orient if necessary, right-click, and select Fix Constraint.

◾ Click Complete Component from the dashboard.

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5. In the ribbon, select the Applications tab.

6. Click Cabling from the Engineering group.

7. In the ribbon, click Modify Harness from the Harness group and click HARNESS_1 > Done
from the menu manager.

8. In the ribbon, click Auto Designate from the Logical Data group.
◾ Notice that SP-02 now has a Status of Auto Match.

◾ Click OK.

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9. Click Update .

10. In the menu manager, click Select All > Done Sel.

11. In the ribbon, click Route Cables from the Route group.

12. In the Route cables dialog box, click Find .

◾ Click wire W-10 and drag to select wires W-3 and W-4, then click Add and click OK.

13. Click OK in the Route cables dialog box.

14. Disable Csys Display .

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15. Enable Thick Cables .

Figure 9

This completes the procedure.

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