Wiring schematics plug-in
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Hi
Been using SU7 basic a while, i need to design some wiring layouts (thats the physical stuff), as SU can do measurements it would be very nice to do it in there.
However dont fancy manually designing the sleeving, heatshink and stuff, is there a tool that can do it for me including wiring sizes, colors etc...?
Many Thanks
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@sfx group said:
Hi
Been using SU7 basic a while, i need to design some wiring layouts (thats the physical stuff), as SU can do measurements it would be very nice to do it in there.
However dont fancy manually designing the sleeving, heatshink and stuff, is there a tool that can do it for me including wiring sizes, colors etc...?
Many Thanks
Ashley,
That is a fairly specific application of SketchUp, so there is not a plugin to do exactly what you need. There are a few plugins that do 'pipe from lines' operations, which I would guess is your basic workflow.
Are you more interested in the measurements, or producing visualizations?
If your planning on drawing the wiring actual size, SketchUp may have trouble creating the tube geometry depending on the wire gage.
Can you provide some insight into your workflow, and the expected result? I can't commit to anything right, but I'm sure people will have more ideas.
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I'm not even convinced that "real" pipes (i.e. "solid tubes") would be needed for this. Simple (coloured) lines (especially when colour by material and/or colour by layer is on) should do it.
Obviously they should be separate groups so that they don't interfere with each other.
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@sfx group said:
Hi
Been using SU7 basic a while, i need to design some wiring layouts (thats the physical stuff), as SU can do measurements it would be very nice to do it in there.
However dont fancy manually designing the sleeving, heatshink and stuff, is there a tool that can do it for me including wiring sizes, colors etc...?
Many Thanks
Confusion between schematic and board, rack and equipment design.
Schematics as you know are just a line drawing of an electrical circuit. From there one proceeds to actual design of the item with the heat sinking based on: environmental conditions determined by thermal/ mechanical engineers , the parts dissipation by the electrical engineer, the part manufactures design thermal resistance of the junction to case plus your part case to heat sink mounting ( usually a circuit board to case heat transfer problem), and the reliability of the item specified by the user ( this limits the allowable junction temps).
Without knowing your specific application, stuff is very broad, I would say SU is not appropriate for what you are asking.
There are electrical layout programs more appropriate for your use which include IC models so correct pad widths are addressed of PCB boards etc.
Maybe a more generalized search is in order.?? -
ok... glad this got some interest... here are the facts.
Its a "look and feel" thing, so creating to connectors is "easy" this would get the basic ends.
What i need to achieve is something I can look at in 6 months and know "6pin male end to 6pin female end", then "5 wires all black expect 1 with tubing then heat shrink". This is definitely not being used for PCB board creation (we have software for that already).
So the idea is very basic, it would be tubes in groups with colours, I tend to be quiet accurate so I know that certain wires are 1.1mm in diameter which would be a pipe this wide then sleeving 4mm wide to contain that wire etc....
The idea was we used to (well started) doing it in Corel Draw, however that really isn’t good when doing this stuff as you really need it 3D so you can move around it, esp when you have arms coming off, its quiet hard to "see" 20mm is heat shrink on Corel Draw, however you could explode this in SU (with a plug-in) and see there’s 20mm of heat shrink and it can be labelled as well.
So this is no more than a documented wiring construction method drawing, however it doesn’t need to be actual "schematics" we use other software for that type of thing, however the end connectors would be labelled such as "6pin male A, A.1 > B.2 etc..." this shows which pin is connected to which other connector (as another would be labelled "6pin female B etc..."
However sounds like there isn’t a plug-in of such, I have seen the "pipes" plug in, think i would prefer to do me own pipes, would be easier i think (all cables would be 90 degree bends for ease of construction.
Of course, unless anyone else knows of a real electric diagram / connector / construction software I would be interested, however not come across one yet (that didn’t cost more than about 5k anyway).
I might knock something up so you can see it, however that means I’ve done the job then
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@watkins said:
This might be of interest:
Regards,
BobHi, thanks for this, no good for the wiring, however is handy for a number of other projects i have on the go (the harddrives, just drawn a number very basic shapes, these are way better).
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