stability-Electrical wiring colors and diameters/.xml library

Discussion created by genexxer genexxer on Jul 11, 2007
Latest reply on Jul 9, 2008 by Kirk Jess

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After leaving a connector looking great with all the wiring the right color and diameters, I return only to find it messed up with the wrong colors and diameters. Revisiting the wire editor shows that two wires are associated to one route. This happened all by itself(!).

Also the minimum bend radii, wire diameters, wire colors and other values in the user defined wire library I have have to be re-input since they revert to some magical default values.

Maybe the two above are linked?

Please confirm, deny and suggest possible remedies
Best Regards,
G
I am using routing in swx 2007 sp3.1. on x32 windows xp (4GB RAM)

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1-CDBR7G Jul 9, 2008 12:47 AM
I am using SW2008 SP4, and I see this same thing. I edt a route assembly, edit the route, then edit wires, and all the colors look good after the correct path has been selected. After leaving the route (or sometimes after leaving the route assembly), the colors go back to some type of default white-ish color. This is not just cosmetic - it is a good design check to see that all the colors going into a certain terminal are the same.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a known bug?

Mike Barber
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- Andy Hughes @ 1-CDBR7G on Jul 9, 2008 6:16 AM
  The issue of wires changing in edit wires is not something I have ever seen.
  
  We have had reports of colours & diameters changing after save/re-open but have never seen a reproducable case that we can identify and fix.
  
  If you can, please report this as a bug through your reseller. If you would like to post the assembly to the forum I can take a quick look so may be able give some advice but if it is a bug I'll need it to be reported as a customer issue before we can look to fix it.
  
  Are you using fromto lists? If so, please attach them too.
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  - Kirk Jess @ Andy Hughes on Jul 9, 2008 1:25 PM
    I have had it happen as well in the past. The "fix" is to delete the harness PART file from the harness assembly file. Then edit route and close the route. This will fix the color and diameter problem. Also you cannot use real view with the harness because it will default the wire colors to a gray. Turn off real view and the wires will show the color again.
    
    It seems to be something with not overwriting or an error when overwriting the part file. By deleting it, it rebuilds it from scratch and actually saves it.
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