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TransCable
Advanced Design Automation for Cable and Wire Harness Design

TransCable is a schematic capture tool for electromechanical systems.
It is integrated with mechanical CAD tools through bi-directional interfaces.
TransCable is also integrated with TransDataBookTM for component
library management.
TransCable is a wire and net-based editor, which manages electrical
signal connectivity between physical components. Logical nets may be
automatically converted to wires and splices. Wires may be interactively
routed between pins of physical components. Splices are automatically
created when multiple wires are connected together. Multiple wires may
also be routed to a common pin, which create a multi-termination. Cable
types such as twisted, flat, or shielded may be defined. Shielded cable
symbols have termination pins to support grounding of shields with a
wire connection. Cables may also be defined within other cables.

TransDataBook Upgrade
TransDataBook is an upgrade product to
TransCable. It provides library management
of parts and can be synchronized with a
company's parts information system.
A designer may specify queries to search a
library to select qualified parts. Component
and wire attribute sets are annotated to
generic symbols to create unique parts.
Attributes on parts are used during simulation,
analysis, and design rule checks.
Design Rules
Electrical, physical and manufacturing
design rules can be customized and checked
to ensure that a company's best practices are
followed. TransCable provides standard
checks to verify that wires, splices and
cables have been properly defined.
These checks identify problems prior to
passing design information to the Mechanical
CAD tools. Manufacturing reports such as
bill of materials (BOMs) and wire "FromTo" lists are automatically generated and may
be customized with user defined formats.

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Integration with Mechanical CAD Tools
TransCable is integrated with the industry
leading mechanical CAD vendors.
CAT/TransCable InterfaceTM integrates
TransCable and Dassault Systemes' CATIA
3D Electrical Systems (E3D) environment.
SDRC/TransCable InterfaceTM (see note at the
top of the SDRC/TransCable file)integrates
TransCable and EDS' I-DEAS Harness
Design product.