I am very new to electrical routing, and am trying to set up our library of components. I am looking for the best way to set up a crimp-on terminal, Tyco PN 794956-1, and the housing it is inserted into, Tyco PN series 158601. The wire is crimped on the terminal, so I have a Connection Point on it to start the route. What do I need to do to the Housing to make sure it will be part of the route assembly? Do I make an assembly of the Housing and Pins? Then, what if I don't use all of the pins? Can I have a CPoint on an assembly if I tried this?
Looking for any tried and true solutions, so I don't have to use the trial and error method.
This is something we do quite frequently with mil-spec circular connectors. I don't know what your requirements are, but in general, we will populate each cavity in a connector with a pin, whether or not there is a wire crimped to it. In order to drive the BOM to show contacts as well as the housing, we have created empty parts (no geometry) that contain the necessary information to drive the BOM, and then insert those as required into the route assembly. The way we do it is a complete pain, but it does work to show all the necessary parts for purchasing as we're required.
It is possible to create the connector with contacts as an assembly and start a route with it, but for our drawing standards that creates a problem because we can only show top-level parts on a BOM.
In general, unless you need for some reason to show discrete wires, it is advisable to have a single Cpoint on your connector housing, rather than multiple discretes.\
Hopefully that helps a little.