It looks to me like you have tried to model individual wires
here. This can be done but not if you want to route them through
shared clips as you have done here. The application is best used
for harnessing whereby the segments that contain multiple wires are
created as a single path and the application takes care of which
wires run through the segment. Doing it this way you will see the
wires coming from the back of the LED's into the first clip, from
there it will just show as a single tube through the clips until it
splits out agin into single wires. Not so pretty, but much easier
to model and more efficient in terms of graphics and assembly
performance.
The attached images illustrate this. If you have to show
individual wires you will have to create clips with multiple axis
and route each wire through a separate axis so that they remain as
completely separate routes. By routing them through the same axis
you are effectively creating a short circuit which will cause
problems in the wire router.
The attached image is of a 3d route assembly created in
Solidworks 2006 SP3.4, running under Windows XP SP2.
When I wired the pins up directly, I had three yellow wires,
two green and one orange. Everything was fine (although I couldn't
get all of the warning flags to disappear in the wire editor)
the trouble started when I used the Autoroute|reroute spline
command to run the wires through the clips.
First, some splines didn't pick up tangnecy relations to the
segments running through the clips. So I had to add that.
Second, If I go into the wire editor, I've got errors,
dropped paths, wires routing into clips and then backing out and no
ammount of path segment selecting seems to be helping.
Finally, when I re-route the original splines through the
clips, it looks like a tone of duplicate segments are being
created.
A couple things that might be of significance.
The route is set for electrical/harness
The clip model used throughout contains two routpoints and an
axis.
I just got the routing software six weeks ago and I didn't go
through training and I'm the first in my shop to use it. Such being
the case, I could use the insight of veterans on my process,
particluarly, traps to avoid.
Any help would be hot.
Thanks
JOhn
The attached images illustrate this. If you have to show individual wires you will have to create clips with multiple axis and route each wire through a separate axis so that they remain as completely separate routes. By routing them through the same axis you are effectively creating a short circuit which will cause problems in the wire router.
Development Manager - Routed systems.