Hoses and Cables in ProE

I'm still somewhat of a novice on ProE, but something the "old-timers"
here said doesn't seem to make a lot of sense...

We design and manufacter high-end lawn (turf) mowers. The Senior
engineers never put in hydraulic hoses or electrical cables in the
assemblies because they claim they cannot route them through the
assembly. Often they leave them sticking out straight (which looks
silly...).

Why can they route brake cables and fan belts where they are suppose
to go, but hydraulic hoses and electrical cable can't be done?

Am I asking too much of them to place these where they should really
go? Is it because they really can't route them properly, or is it
because they won't do it?

Indyrose

 

Anyway, Rose, if Ed Foxworthy says it can't be did, you can believe him.
He's not lazy and he'd never bullshit anyone.

David Janes

 

I haven't that problem, but I'm not in front of a Pro/E seat now to
check. As long as the curve is perpendicular (specified by being tangent to
the normal edge), and produces no self-intersections, I had no problems
making sweeps from general splines.

Dave

 

One caveat: if creating datum curves in the assembly to show the cable
path, be very careful what you use for references. If you reference
from existing installed components (as is usually tempting when
running a cable) and the either delete, replace or redefine one of
those component, the whole shooting match can blow up in your face
(and be quite difficult to fix).

Using a skeleton or simply referencing the datum curves only the the
assembly default datums is better.

..... Sid (who learned this the hard way)