Powered by an intuitive 3D routing engine, iCable is a high-efficiency add-in for Autodesk® Inventor® that enables engineers to rapidly build realistic cables, hoses, tubes, and pipes directly within assembly environments—significantly reducing design time across complex models.

Unlike the native Cable & Harness and Tube & Pipe modules which create multi-level nested sub-assemblies, iCable places standard sweep parts directly at the top active assembly level. This results in a clean, flat browser tree that any Inventor user can open and edit using native commands, even without iCable installed.

iCable provides functionalities as follows:

• Create Interpolated Cable: Works as a spline fitter to the polyline path as routed by the user. The interpolation setting controls the 3D spline shape of cable, suitable for various cable application scenarios.
• Create Adaptive Cable: This has similar geometric characteristics to those found in Inventor Tube & Pipe.
• Create Rigid Tube and Pipe: Includes bend radius for rigid tubes and pipes.
• Update Length of All Cables: Automatically updates the length of all cables if they have been modified manually.
• Length Summary Report: Provides a summary report for all cables, detailing cable outer diameter (OD) and color.
• Individual Cable Report: Generates reports for all individual cables, including their length and color.

Click "User guide" in Support below to access user instructions and other materials for iCable.