59. Creating Tooling Components

To Create tool components which can be added to your bill of materials (Tooling). Go to Project Manager page (Fig 59.1), Select Library .Create a new Library (TOOLING in Fig 59.2) or add to an existing library by selecting your existing Library Name from the projects list OR clicking to create a new library for Harnesses Tooling parts (Fig 59.2)

Fig 59.1 Projects Manager page.

Fig 59.2 Library Details page showing Harnesses Tooling Library.

Add a new Sheet

then use the drawing tools to create a marker, the marker shape and size will be dictated by the shape of your component tool.

We will first create a nail using the Drawing Tab

and selecting the Circle tool then clicking and expanding to the desired size in this case is 18mm in size (Fig 59.3)


Fig 59.3 Expanded circle 18mm.	Fig 59.4 3mm Nail.

Again using the Drawing Tab draw a circle in the center for the Nail 3mm (Fig 59.4) it can be useful to add center lines to the circle to help with alignment, Select the circle and double click its control node, expand the Advanced Parent options and select Center Lines to On (Fig 59.5)

Fig 59.5 Circle drawing properties.

Next we will add details and colours to the Component tools for easy reference when added to our Harness drawing. To fill the nail, select its control node and double click to open the properties (Fig 59.6), set the Fill to BLACK and Submit to complete. (Fig 59.7)


Fig 59.6 Nail circle Properties.	Fig 59.7 Filled Nail with center lines.

Next we will create a Clip tool, Add a new Sheet by clicking the Left Menu then the "Add" to add a new sheet.

Using the Drawing Tab

and selecting the Rectangle tool

Click and expand a rectangle 20mm x 6mm (Fig 59.8) and for the Center of the Clip draw a 3mm circle (Fig 59.9)


Fig 59.8. 20 x 6mm Rectangle.	Fig 59.9. 20 x 6mm Rectangle with center circle and center lines.

Adding outer limits to components improve its visibility when placed on the Drawing, again using the Rectangle tool we will add Black bars to each end of our Clip (Fig 59.10)

Fig 59.10 Black outer limit bars on clip tool

Adding a image to a component tool can help visualise the part being built onto the drawing, to add and image under the Drawing tab click Image

the Add link properties will open, setting the frame to OFF will give a cleaner image when displayed on the drawing, select

Image address: browse to the location of the image either on your system or under the images stored within Arcadia.

We will add the Clip.jpg image under the Quickstart\tools folders (Fig 59.11)

Fig 59.11 Image location properties

Place the image on the Sheet near to the component tool, the image may be to large in proportion to your tool so can be resized by double clicking the Images control node under Advanced Parent Options set the Image scale to your desired size (Fig 59.12)

Fig 59.12 Image Advanced properties

Grouping drawn component tools merges them together and allows you to designate a center point. We will group our drawn clip tool along with its image Tool by Selecting using Select and pulling a box around both then right clicking within the selection area, click Group (Fig 59.13) Set the center point to the center of your component tool and Submit to complete.

Fig 59.13 Selected area right click Menu

We will place our clip and nail onto our Fog Harness Formboard by reopening our Fog Harness formboard project, (Click the + / - next to Fog Lamp Harness and selecting the drawing below. Once opened Click the Harness tab

and then the Library icon, we can then select our nail and place it in the bend of conduit NTS200 as shown in Fig 59.14 and complete the same process this time selecting the clip and placing it slightly further along Conduit NTS200 (Right click to rotate the clip) shown in Fig 59.15.

Fig 59.14 Nail placed on Formboard

Fig 59.15 Clip rotated and placed on Formboard