Showing a striped wire

Anyone willing to share a simple technique for showing a striped wire
in an assembly? Routing solid color wires is fairly straight forward
but how could I show a green w/ yellow striped wire in an assembly
model to drive a shaded view in a drawing?

 

oooh good question. i had this a few months ago, luckily i got pulled off
the job adn got to forget about it foe a while! can't wait for the answer!!
it has to be simple too none of that split line n color bs ;0))

 

One idea could be to sweep some very small "microcuts" along the wire to
divide the surface and then add colors to the different sections. Depends a
little on how You swept the cable from start.

Krister L

 

I divided the sweep profile to create a surface (the stripe) that I
could select and assign a different color to. Worked great! Looks
like Krister had the same idea. Thanks.

 

You might want to use the new 2005 sweep option "Twist Along Path" to
make the stripe twist.

Thomas