To document the manufacturing of the 3D Wire Harness, Solid Edge introduces nailboards. Nailboards flatten a 3D harness assembly onto a 2D board, complete with geometry and annotations.
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To support nailboards, several commands have been added:
The Nailboard View command creates a flattened nailboard view of a wire harness.
The Connector Drawing View command creates a drawing view of the connector associated with a selected branch of the wire harness.
The Connector Table command creates a nailboard connector table based on harness information from the connector view.
The Conductor Table command creates a nailboard conductor table.
The Insert Bend command inserts a bend on the flattened geometry in the nailboard drawing view.
Along with the new commands, enhancements were made to accommodate nailboards:
Enhancements have been made to the Solid Edge Options dialog box:
New Nailboard View and Connector View views have been added to the list on the Drawing View Style page. The Nailboard style has also been added to the Caption tab on the Modify Drawing View Style dialog box, so that you can define the caption for nailboard drawing views that is unique to the view type.
Options have been added to the Edge Display page. The Do not show hidden edges in the connector view option controls the display of hidden edges in the connector drawing view. The Print white conductors in option controls the color in which white conductors appear when you print the nailboard view, making it easier to view the conductor.
Enhanced tooltips display the name of the highlighted flattened geometry for both the line or bend segment.
A Wiring Harness category has been added to the Values section of the Select Symbols and Values dialog box that contains harness and component codes for several harness properties.
For more information, see the user help topic, Working with nailboards.