Creating Conductor Annotations

You can create conductor annotations on segments and connectors in the Drafting app. The conductor attributes in the annotation can be customized.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin:

You can perform this scenario only if a Drafting license is available.

Generate a Drawing

You can generate a drawing from the flattened geometry.

  1. Open a new drawing document.
    The Drafting app opens.
  2. From the View Layout section of the action bar, click Front View .
  3. Click a plane in the flattened geometry document as a reference plane: for example the face of a connector.


Important: To create a drawing using View From 3D command, the harness flattening parameters and the 3D annotation plane are in the same context, or customize the drawing view specifying the drawing options. For more information, see Customizing the Drawing and General Parameters.

Create Conductor Annotations

You can add annotations on conductor attributes.

  1. In the Drafting app, from the Electrical Dress-up section of the action bar, click Conductor Annotation .

    • The Tools Palette appears which allows you to show or hide the conductor annotation dialog box:

    • The Conductor Attributes dialog box appears which allows you to select the attributes you want to see as annotations (bend radius, color, diameter, length, mass, etc.):

      • To add an attribute from Available to Favorites, select the required attribute and click the right arrow .

      • To remove an attribute from Favorites, select it in the list and click the left arrow .

      • By default, the last favorite attributes used are available when the dialog box is re-opened.

      • To save different favorite lists, select the required attributes, enter a name in the input field and validate.

  2. Select Diameter, Length, and Bend Radius for example.
  3. Select a segment by clicking its 3D projection or SingleLine, or select a connector by clicking the 3D projection in the geometry.

    If the connector is a 2D detail, you cannot select it. You can select the segment Connection Point projected in the drawing. Using the Automatic Generation function, you can select the points more easily and create the conductor annotations automatically.

    A table is created, showing all the selected attributes in Favorites.

    To add another conductor annotation, click Conductor Annotation again before selecting a segment or a connector.

    There is an automatic update of the modifications except if you remove or add some components.

    To customize the graphical representation of the table, right-click the table and select Properties.

    Important: This command is not available for internal splices. Conductor specifications do not have part numbers (the field in the conductor attributes table is left blank). A part number is assigned when a conductor reference is associated to the conductor specification.