Procedure:: Autodesignating Components

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Procedure: Autodesignating Components


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Procedure Setup:
1. To avoid naming conflicts, it is recommended you save your work, click File > Close until no models
display, then click File > Manage Session > Erase Not Displayed.

2. Click File > Manage Session > Set Working Directory and navigate to the
PTCU\CreoParametric2\Cabling\Designate_Auto folder and click OK

3. Click File > Open and double-click CABLING.ASM.

Task 1. Autodesignate components in a cabling assembly.

1. Disable all Datum Display types.

2. In the ribbon, select the Applications tab.

3. Click Cabling from the Engineering group.

4. Enable only the following Cabling Display types: .

5. In the ribbon, click Auto Designate from the Logical Data group.

6. In the Auto Designator dialog box, select C-01, and notice that its status is Multiple.

7. Select the upper connector.

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8. In the Auto Designator dialog box, select M-01, and notice that its status is Multiple.

9. Select the upper connector.

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10. In the Auto Designator dialog box, click Apply and notice that the system automatically matches
the remaining cabling components.
◾ Click OK.

11. Enable Ref Designator Labels .

12. Click Cabling Parameters from the Components group.

13. Press CTRL and select M-01 and M-02.

14. Click OK from the Select dialog box.

15. In the Electrical Parameters dialog box, notice that the REF_DES and MODEL_NAME parameters
automatically fill out from the Creo Schematics logical information.

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16. In the Electrical Parameters dialog box, select the Entry Ports option.
◾ Expand the connector nodes and the respective Entry Ports nodes.

◾ Notice the names and quantity of the defined entry ports on each connector, as well as the
port type and internal length.

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All this data came from the imported Creo Schematics data.

17. Click Cancel.

This completes the procedure.

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