9 comments

  • chrisdalke 1 day ago
    This is awesome.

    What’s your plan for pricing?

    In my opinion: you should bundle this as an offline electron app that can save to the filesystem and get integrated into existing PLM. and/or sell a team plan that offers cloud design & library sync

    … and partner with that YC company doing wire harness machines for a “buy now” button

    • djsdjs 16 hours ago
      Thanks Chris!

      I intend to keep the current functionality (50 harness/assembly designs per account) free. A collaboration feature is coming soon that will allow creating teams and sharing harnesses with specific accounts - we may charge here at some tier but this is TBD.

      I was unaware of the YC company (https://www.loombotic.com/ I think) - thanks for pointing me to it.

    • synack 1 day ago
      Could work well as an Onshape App.
  • nickpinkston 1 day ago
    This looks great and well designed.

    If you want a bigger parts library, let us know at Volition:

    https://govolition.com/

    nick@govolition.com

    • djsdjs 17 hours ago
      Thanks Nick - I'm a fan of your site. Email coming your way.
  • phrotoma 20 hours ago
    I don't understand what I'm looking at ...

    Does this let you build like arbitrary wire bundles and then choose your own end pieces like the ones on an ATX power supply?

  • sschmitt 1 day ago
    Can it document modular synthesizer patch configurations?
    • djsdjs 11 hours ago
      Interesting application - not sure the visualization currently lends itself well to that. My first approach would be to make the modules components and then arrange them to mimic the actual appearance. We don't currently have text on the component creator so labeling may be tough.

      I'll put something together with the current features and share here.

  • LoganDark 1 day ago
    Minor annoyance: Scrolling this webpage on iOS, when I reach certain scroll positions, videos randomly open in fullscreen even if I didn't tap on anything.
    • tn1 19 hours ago
      It happens to me on many sites too, I'm not sure what causes it. Seems to mostly happen in Firefox iOS
    • djsdjs 11 hours ago
      Thanks for pointing this out!
  • hulitu 23 hours ago
    > Show HN: Splice – CAD for Cable Harnesses and Electrical Assemblies

    Download ?

    • djsdjs 16 hours ago
      Hi -

      Download as in run the app locally or download a design?

      If the former, that's not currently possible.

      If the latter, you can use the Download button on the harness builder (top floating button menu) to choose an available format for an engineering drawing, diagram, or BOM or choose JSON or WireVIZ YAML; see the Export and Documentation section here: https://splice-cad.com/#/tutorial

  • krekr 23 hours ago
    Fuck yes
  • skyzouwdev 10 hours ago
    [dead]
  • djsdjs 1 day ago
    :( I bungled the tutorial URL: https://splice-cad.com/#/tutorial
    • tomhow 1 day ago
      How do you mean? The trailing slash? I just removed it but let me know if you you need it (or anything else) changed in some other way.
      • djsdjs 1 day ago
        Yes, the trailing slash - thanks for fixing it!