How to consider minimum bend radius when routing cables.


 Product(s):Bentley Raceway & Cable Management
 Version(s):10.09.00.74 onwards
 Environment:N/A
 Area:Cable Routing
 Subarea:Cable Types

Background

This article will explain how you can ensure that cable routing considers the bend radius of your cables and raceways when routing the cables.

Key Features-

Steps to Accomplish

1.Navigate to Manage on the ribbon and select Options.



2.Go to Cable Data in Options dialog and then Select Cable Types.



*Cable Types must be imported before this step.

3.Under Cable Types dialog, select any cable you want to route and assign Minimum Radius.
For example, here I selected two cable types 5C12 and 3C2 and assigned different minimum radius values to them.



After assigning minimum radius values, click apply and then ok.

4. Now, select Cable Manager from Equipment & Cable.



5. Click on Collaboration Manager and right click, Select All and choose Request lock to include all the resources.



6. Select a cable with cable type 3C2 with 50 as minimum bend radius and perform automatic routing for that cable.



7. Here you can see the cable cannot be routed and in info the reason for it is "Cable minimum bend radius is larger than raceway bend radius(raceway id)”.



8. Now repeat Steps 7 & 8 for Cable type 5C12. This time the cable will get routed successfully. As the minimum bend radius of cable is lesser than the raceway’s bend radius.



9.By visualizing the 3D cable you can easily see the bend and the adjusted length in the properties.





See Also-
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