Assembly4 incontext editing cables

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Assembly4 incontext editing cables

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Hello, everybody!
I'd like to share some experience and interest to know any opinion and suggestions...
I was playing with Draft wire tool and made some sort of electric cables workflow. The aim of such kind of work is to make possible to count the length of the kitchen environment cables.
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As an example I've made four breakers in the electric box ("IEK" electric products - downloaded STEP files from russian site (unfortunately english version of site has no 3D models somehow)https://www.iek.ru/products/catalog/shk ... _belyy_iek) and made cable connections inside Asm4 WB. The fist step - I've made four files 1000mm length cables with different names as a blank and put them into main assembly. The beginnings of cable blanks I've connected to the outputs of breakers. After I've edited every cable not going out of main assembly. Some editing example here's in the video:
https://disk.yandex.ru/i/XFJxH_nKUimDjw
The process of the editing consists of two general actions: to measure the distance between the breaker (the beginning of the cable) and the target point and after imputing the XYZ data into the table of the wire (Line).
After all editions I've corrected manually Part Info of every edited cable and made a BOM.
Also I've checked the 'Cyrillic' (russian) compatibility during the naming and inserting the part into assemblies. Must to notice: FC doesn't understand the "Alias" data and expressions in Cyrillic. But the labeling in general works fine with russian symbols, so as an experiment I've named all the parts in russian. I hope it has no influence to the general understanding of the assembly.

My main impression about such workflow - the biggest difficulty is the measurement & editing cables through the Draft "Line" properties. May be somebody could tell the more comfortable way to construct 3D cables in FC? I'd be very grateful!

Here's some addition information (if somebody is interested) about the creation&colorizing the parts from step files, blank part of cable and assembling in Asm4:
https://disk.yandex.ru/i/jVM6zUkfGuSkEA - downloading STEPs;
https://disk.yandex.ru/i/qnuxWtcK-yYOzg - LCS part preparation;
https://disk.yandex.ru/i/hcsARhKcathuEw - Draft colorizing;
https://disk.yandex.ru/i/ZmApzXUV-YSyyg - Part Info editing;
https://disk.yandex.ru/i/uF7TNVpmRWNjmQ - adding part into assembly;
https://disk.yandex.ru/i/yOigwd-WAakrgg - blank cable file making
Good luck & mode!

The files:
https://disk.yandex.ru/d/wdFBth6mRJpYLA
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Re: Assembly4 incontext editing cables

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P/S/ may be some expert could help how to make a issue report about Cyrillic russian translations in the files? I suppose it's not a Assembly4 issue but the FC in general.. Here I've got all the russian names of files and parts, but steel got some "___" in the info line:
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Re: Assembly4 incontext editing cables

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totalcad wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 9:13 pm I was playing with Draft wire tool and made some sort of electric cables workflow. The aim of such kind of work is to make possible to count the length of the kitchen environment cables.

My main impression about such workflow - the biggest difficulty is the measurement & editing cables through the Draft "Line" properties. May be somebody could tell the more comfortable way to construct 3D cables in FC?
did you try the Curves WB ? I've used it for other wires stuff and it's very good.
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Re: Assembly4 incontext editing cables

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Zolko wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 9:41 pm
totalcad wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 9:13 pm I was playing with Draft wire tool and made some sort of electric cables workflow. The aim of such kind of work is to make possible to count the length of the kitchen environment cables.

My main impression about such workflow - the biggest difficulty is the measurement & editing cables through the Draft "Line" properties. May be somebody could tell the more comfortable way to construct 3D cables in FC?
did you try the Curves WB ? I've used it for other wires stuff and it's very good.
No. Need to test! :) Great thanxs!
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