If you haven’t already, I highly recommend that you take a look at the video from Nine Dots Connect that I included in my initial post. I don’t like the over-reliance on text blocks to indicated housings, contacts, etc. The others end up being purely graphical, but there is no reason why KiCAD should care. The only trick is that only one of the component “parts” has any electrical pins on it. It’s no different than a multi-part component to represent a quad op-amp. As far as KiCAD (or Altium Designer in the case of Nine Dots) is concerned, I would just be placing multi-part components from a library. The Nine Dots method is pretty slick, and it doesn’t require any overloading with other uses. The only stumbling block is being able to import 2D mechanical drawings of the harness parts into KiCAD’s symbol editor. QElectroTech looks better suited to documenting how to connect those individual harness parts together into a system (although I found that AD did a great job using the same approach laid out by Nine Dots). Then generate a BOM from all the parts I consume. Insert those contacts into these positions of a particular housing. What I am looking for is a CAD tool to document how to build things like cables: cut x-length of this cable. I think that it would be good for system-level drawings. Yes, I have been looking at QElectroTech, too.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |