You can use the Create Physical Conductor command to create a solid body of the wires, cables, and bundles that make up the harness design. This is useful when you need a rendering or detailed drawing of your harness design,
To access the command, right-click on a conductor in PathFinder. The solid body that is created is only for the selected conductor. In other words, if you select a cable, the command does not create solid bodies for the wires contained in the cable. You can right-click on the Harness node in Assembly PathFinder to create all of the solids at once. The solid bodies are embedded in the assembly and no new documents are added to the assembly.
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Any paths found in the harness design that do not contain attributes will not be included in the creation of the solid body.
When you create a solid body for a conductor, the symbol adjacent to the conductor in PathFinder is updated to indicate that a solid body has been created for the conductor.
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To select multiple conductors, you can hold down the Ctrl key, and then click the conductors you want. To select a list of conductors, click on the first conductor in the list, hold down the Shift key, and then click the last conductor in the list.
After you create a solid body for a conductor, additional shortcut menu commands are available to manipulate the solid bodies.
You can use the Show Physical Conductor and Hide Physical Conductor commands to control the display of the solid bodies. The solid body is automatically shown on creation, so you can use the Hide Physical Conductor command to conceal the newly created body. Changes made to the display of the physical body do no affect the display state of the conductor used to create the body.
You can use the Delete Physical Conductor command to delete the solid body without deleting the conductor.