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. 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 connector shown.

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

9. Select the connector shown.

Figure 2

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 from the In Graphics toolbar.

12. Click Cabling Parameters from the Components group.

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

14. Click OK in 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.

Figure 3

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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Figure 4

All of this data came from the imported Creo Schematics data.

17. Click Cancel.

Task 2. Use the Autodesignate dialog box to assemble missing components.

1. Click Close from the Quick Access toolbar.

2. Click Erase Not Displayed from the Data group and click OK.

3. Click File > Open and double-click CABLING_MISSING-COMP.ASM.

4. Enable only the following Datum Display types: .

5. In the ribbon, select the Applications tab.

6. Click Cabling from the Engineering group.

7. Click Auto Designate .


◾ Notice that C-02 and S-01 are missing.

Figure 5

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8. In the Auto Designator dialog box, select the C-02 row.


◾ Click the Assemble button.

◾ Reposition the component to the left of the model.

◾ Select the COMP_1 coordinate system.

Figure 6

◾ Click Complete Component from the Component Placement dashboard.

9. In the Auto Designator dialog box, select the S-01 row.


◾ Click the Assemble button.

◾ Select the COMP_2 coordinate system.

Figure 7

◾ Click Complete Component .

10. In the Auto Designator dialog box, select the R-01 row.

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◾ Select the lower connector.

Figure 8

◾ Click Apply > OK.

This completes the procedure.

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