Key Details

Teaches existing Autodesk Inventor users how to use Inventor’s Cable and Harness Design functionality

You’ll learn workflows and techniques to design physical cables and harnesses for electrical systems for almost any product or machine. Sessions include:

• The principles behind wiring an assembly incorporating wires and cables, ribbon cables and route segments.
• Adding and routing wires and cables.
• Adding splices.
• Adding virtual parts.
• Calculating accurate path lengths and avoiding small-radius bends.
• Ensuring that electrical components fit into the mechanical assembly before manufacturing.
• Creating 2D drawings of your designs.
• Exporting design data.
• Producing reports detailing the diameters, parts, counts and other data required to build the wire harness.
• Creating and managing the library file and configuration files.
• Creating and publishing electrical parts and connectors to a custom Content Center library.

Inventor Cable and Harness Design training is arranged on-request, i.e. one-to-one training or a ‘closed course’ for your group. Your training can be tailored to take into account any existing knowledge you have, and the work you’re going to be doing.

In-class or online

This course is available in-class at eight centres or live online.

Accredited Inventor training

Armada is an Autodesk Authorised Training Centre (ATC), and our Cable and Harness Design courses are:

• Accredited by Autodesk.
• Hosted by Autodesk Certified Instructors with vast experience of using the application professionally. For further details, see Expert trainers.

Training guide and certificate

Course delegates receive:

• A highly-practical training guide for Inventor Cable and Harness Design, to refer to throughout the course, and to use as a refresher afterwards.
• An e-certificate confirming successful completion of an accredited Inventor Cable and Harness Design training course. Click here to see an example of the certificate you receive.

After course support

Following Inventor Cable and Harness Design training, delegates are entitled to 30 days’ email support from their trainer to help with any post-course issues. For further details, see Support.

Prerequisites

Delegates should be familiar with the fundamentals of Inventor, i.e. have attended Inventor Essentials training or have equivalent knowledge through other means

Inventor version

Training can be based on any recent version of Inventor to suit you.

General information

Course times

Standard course times are 9.30am–4.30pm.

As we’d be hosting this as a ‘closed course’ for you/your group, there’s usually flexibility to change these times to suit you, e.g. start or end 30 minutes earlier or later.

Payment

Payment for Inventor training can be made by:

• Bank transfer. Please call 01527 834783 for our bank details.
• Card. All major credit and debit cards accepted. Payment can be made securely online or over the phone. Card payments are processed by Stripe. Armada doesn’t record or store your card details.

Purchase orders

We accept purchase orders from UK-registered companies and public sector organisations.

Accommodation

See Accommodation local to our training centres.

Cancellations and postponements

If an on-request Inventor Cable and Harness Design course booking is cancelled giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a cancellation fee is payable. View cancellation terms.

If an on-request Inventor Cable and Harness Design course booking is postponed giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a postponement fee is payable. View postponement terms.

Terms and conditions

Expert trainers

John Billyard

John has used CAD software for over 35 years, providing high quality engineering and architectural designs to a wide range of clients

He has provided training in the applications he uses for a similar length of time, and for the last 15 years, has been commissioned directly by Autodesk to provide consulting and training services to their corporate client base.

John hosts courses in various Autodesk applications including AutoCAD, Fusion, Inventor and Vault. He also trains Dassault Systèmes’ SolidWorks, Trimble SketchUp and Epic Games’ Twinmotion.

He takes pride in keeping pace with the latest industry design tools and technologies; enabling him to meet the challenges and demands of an ever changing working environment.

Course content

Getting started

• Creating a cable and harness design
• Review and navigating a design

Wiring a harness assembly

• Adding wires and cables
• Routing wires and cables
• Importing wire and cable data
• Adding ribbon cables

Refining a cable and harness design

• Modifying wires, cables, segments and ribbon cables
• Editing the display, setting and properties
• Adding and modifying points
• Checking the bend radius
• Working with splices
• Working with virtual parts

Communicating the design

• Creating drawing views of cable and harness designs
• Annotating nailboards
• Exporting and reporting design data
• Producing reports detailing the diameters, parts, counts and other data required to build the wire harness

Configuring library and report configuration files

• Library definitions and library files
• Configuration files for reports, imports and exports

Creating, authoring and publishing electrical content

• Defining electrical parts and connectors
• Managing libraries
• Creating a custom library
• Creating library content
• Authoring an electrical part
• Publishing to the content centre
• Managing library content
• Copying and moving content
• Adding a column to a part family
• Editing family data in Excel
• Creating family members using material guide

Live online training

Online training lets you participate in a live Inventor course from your place of work or home.

We do everything possible to make your online training experience as close as possible to actually being in the classroom. You can:

• See and hear our trainer, and the other delegates participating in the course…
  
• Watch our trainer demonstrate techniques in Inventor.
• Interact by speaking, or using chat.
• Share your screen with our trainer, and allow them to take control to explain something.

Like our in-class courses, online Inventor Cable and Harness Design courses…

• Are presented by Autodesk Certified Instructors.
• Give you plenty of opportunity to carry out assisted, practical exercises using Inventor.
• Offer 30 days’ email support from your trainer.

All you need is an Internet-connected computer with…

• Inventor installed. If you don’t have a current subscription to Inventor, you’re entitled to a 30-day trial that’s ideal for participating in training. We’ll send you a link to this. If you’ve already used your trial, we can lend you a license for the duration of your course.
• A webcam and audio capability. If your computer running Inventor doesn’t have these, you can use a second device, such as another computer or tablet. See Hardware recommendations for live online training for further details.

If there’s anything you’re not sure about we’ll do our best to help you. We won’t be able to assist with your Inventor installation, but we can provide details for Autodesk support who’ll be able to help you with this.

We provide everything else…

• Links to download the files, resources, etc. you’ll use in your course.
• A training guide. For most courses, you can choose from a printed copy that we post to you, or a PDF.

In the week before your course, we’ll send you an email containing everything you need to prepare for and participate in the training. Then, a couple of days before your course, we’ll give you a courtesy call to make sure you have everything in place and answer any questions you may have.

Please note that we are not able to record scheduled online courses for privacy reasons.

When you attend live online training, you’re participating in a real course, hosted by a real trainer, in real time