How to "grow" a cylinder along a spline or path

Hello,

I'm a fairly inexperienced use of VE and I am in process of making a wiring installation document that shows step by step procedures. What I would like to do is animate a wire being hooked up in one terminal and making it "grow" or lengthen and show it feeding into another terminal. I typically use 3DS MAX at work and can easily do this with that program but can't figure out if VE is capable of this.

Thanks for your help,

Dean F