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What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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splice-cad ◴[] No.44417587[source]
I've been working on Splice CAD – an in-browser cable-harness designer.

https://splice-cad.com

Building cables for multiple personal and professional projects, I was frustrated by having to cobble together harness diagrams in Illustrator or Visio, cut snippets from from PDFs for connector outlines, map pin-outs, wire specs, cable constructions, mating terminals, and manually updating an Excel BOM.

Splice gives you:

An SVG canvas to drag-and-drop any connector or cable from your library to quickly route and bundle wires. Assign signal names to wires or cable cores.

Complete part data Connector outlines, pin-outs, terminal selections (by connector family & AWG), cable core colors & strand counts, wire AWG/color.

Automated BOM & exports parts-ready diagrams, wiring drawings, and a clean BOM in SVG, PNG, or PDF.

Connector & Cable Creators. Connectors or cables not in the existing library can be added with an optional outline and full specs (manufacturer, MPN, series, pitch, positions, IP-rating, operating temp, etc.), then publish privately or share publicly.

Demos & tutorials: Harness Builder → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfQVB_iTD1I

Connector Creator → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqDsCROhpy8

Cable Creator → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFdQaXQxKzU

Full tutorials → https://splice-cad.com/#/tutorial/

No signup required to try—just jump in and start laying out your harness: https://splice-cad.com/#/harness. If you want to save, sign up with Google or email/password.

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aaronblohowiak ◴[] No.44418548[source]
omg, I wish there was a service like jlpcb / pcbway but for cable harnesses.. do you know of any? I'd love to take something like your tool and choose length and quantity and order it....
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1. splice-cad ◴[] No.44421755[source]
Thanks for the comment...yes, I've had that thought many times. There's on demand fab for about everything else, but no low-volume cable house with auto-quoting and a nice design interface.

Check out https://www.hi-harnesses.com/ - limited parts at this point but the closest thing I know of.

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2. aaronblohowiak ◴[] No.44426199[source]
thanks i will check them out.