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Arrangement Driven Cable Routing Path

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Recon1775

Aerospace
Jul 24, 2002
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I haven't been able to get this to work with Arrangements but given how arrangements work I thought it would have...
I create a cable routing that follows a clamp when that cable assembly is installed into a higher next assembly.
The cable assembly is defined as a deformable part and the spline routing is deformed to follow the yellow guide block.

I create one arrangement and have the cable in this orientation.
Arrangement1_umjkut.png


Then switch to another arrangement and move the yellow block which in turn moved the cable.
Arrangement2_urgcfp.png


Unfortunately it appears both arrangements look exactly the same. I verified all the components are set to individual position under each of their properties.
I even tested placing an independent item unrelated to the cable and that appears to function as expected. The component moves with the activation of each arrangement.
I'm guessing given the deformable part is part of the situation it's causing the arrangements not to take on the component position that drove the cable in the first place.
Hopefully I'm wrong because this would be a great function to have with cables that have different routing based on movable components.
 
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