Erratic behavior of wire harness imports from Inventor

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Hey Team,

I ran into some issues today when importing an assembly containing wires modeled as a wiring harness in Inventor. These issues persist when i use the plugin for uploading as well as when i manually export to .stp and upload manually.
There are two seperate issues:
First, Cadasio apparently imports the wiring harness as a single part. This probably stems from Inventor treating the wiring harness as a kind of assembly. However, the assembly resolves into single wires, which Cadasio doesn’t import.

Secondly, which might be a consequence of issue one, the colors of the wires are not importet, you end up witht fully grey wiring.

It would be great if you guys could look into these issues.
Thanks a lot and cheers!

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Hi @user14099 ,

To give you a proper answer we would realistically need to see the original CAD files. Obviously, we don’t want to do that via our public forum, so I have asked a member of the support team to email you directly.

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Thank you very much, i’m looking forward to receiving your mail.

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To make the information I got publically available: The issue here lies with Inventor, because there is no wiring API provided and Inventor treats cable harnesses as a single part, even within a Presentation. I kind of circumvented the issue by coloring the contacts and cable lugs in the color of the corresponding cable, which works sufficciently well.

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