Hello all, 

We got Solidworks Premium for the "Electrical Harness, Piping, Tubing, and Duct Design" feature to hopefully help with an electronics project we are starting soon. This is the 1st time we have had the pleasure of using the Premium version, along with the Routing application.  

In our project we have about 250x LC APC fibre optic connectors, 30x SMA, 30x Ethernet, and heap of power wires in fully custom system we are making, that will fit across 2x 42 RU racks.
Getting fibre bend radius correct, working out fibre lengths and best routing paths are one of the key things we want to get from using the harness routing tool. 

I've been reading the Solidworks guides and watching videos to get my head around it. To me, and based off my Altium experience, getting the Component Library set up correctly will be a important step I feel? 
The information on this I have found on setting up the Component Library seem a bit light though. 
Is setting up a connector library fairly simple? 
Is there any other best practice, tips or things to watchout for? 

We didn't get 'SOLIDWORKS Electrical' we we just have Premium. Will this make managing and setting up 250x fibre optic connectors difficult because we don't have a Schematic driving it all? 
I did see there was some 'From-To List. (Optional)' setting, I'm yet to try this out. Will this setting/option help? 

If I use a suppliers connector STEP model when making a part for our Component Library, will this start to bog down our model after we add in a few hundred of them? Are we better of drawing them from scratch? or does importing them and saving them as a Solidworks part fix this problem? 

Again, if you have any best practice, tips or advice for using the Electrical Harness, Piping, Tubing, and Duct Design" feature for the 1st time, please let me know!  

Thanks,