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[feature]Cable glands support?

Open martonmiklos opened this issue 5 years ago • 4 comments

Hi!

Many thanks for sharing this project, it really rocks!

I am working on creating a documentation for a cable where I would need to add a cable gland to the cable during the cable assembly.

I have seen the discussion in #31 about similar thing and it might be useful to bring this up for further discussion because it could be useful for others as well.

martonmiklos avatar Aug 15 '20 15:08 martonmiklos

  • With the current (master branch) version, you can add notes to the cable that describes the glands.
  • With the current dev branch (that probably soon will become a new release), you can also add custom BOM entries. This feature is currently only described in the syntax documentation draft.
  • With the same new release, it probably also will be possible to include a custom image inside the cable node, in case that might help you visualize cable related properties, e.g. a gland.
  • Any implementation of #31 is not yet suggested. Feel free to contribute with your use case and ideas also in that discussion.

kvid avatar Aug 19 '20 19:08 kvid

Well I have to think more about how would it be the most elegant/straightforward.

Adding glands as a note could be problematic since they have installation direction, they could have an installation position in a given distance between connectors etc.

Graphic wise I would imagine something like this: kép (Basically a vector drawing of a gland which diameter would fit to the wires.)

martonmiklos avatar Aug 19 '20 20:08 martonmiklos