Creating Implement Links

You can create missing implement links between electrical logical and physical components and systems using the Logical to Physical command. You can select the compatible elements to link between the electrical logical and physical systems; this is an intermediary step between the links analysis and synchronization. Thus, it is possible to scan physical design and reuse it instead of creating new physical equipment, and create implement links without synchronization.

Note: The criteria of implement link creation are:
  • Link management is supported only by the following element types: equipment, electrical connector and logical wire harness.
  • A logical element (system or component) can only be linked to a physical element of similar type (physical system / physical component respectively).
  • A physical element which is not already implementing any logical element can be selected.
  • A logical element will be treated as linked if the corresponding physical element is computed through a business rule, so user will not be allowed to change such physical element for link creation.
  • The selection of the physical component depends on its part number and parent:
    • Only the physical component having the same part number as the pre-defined part number of logical connector can be linked. If the pre-defined part number of logical connector is unset, the user can select any physical connector.
    • Only a logical connector in a logical wire harness can be linked to a physical connector aggregated in the electrical geometry of the corresponding electrical physical system. If any physical system is not found / linked to the logical wire harness, the user is not allowed to link the logical connector.
    • A logical connector not aggregated in logical wire harness (directly / indirectly) can be linked to any physical connector.
    • A logical equipment can be linked to physical equipment anywhere in the physical tree.
    • If a business rule for opening ID (Compute Aggregating Product of Equipment (L2P_ComputeFatherForPlacingEquipment)) provides the aggregating product, the physical equipments in the aggregating physical parent can only be selected for link creation.
  • The user has to select the electrical physical system corresponding to a logical wire harness manually.

  1. Create logical and physical data as described below:

    • An electrical logical system containing equipments, harnesses, single insert connectors, harness bundles, electrical physical systems and branches. For more information, see Functional & Logical Design User's Guide: About Electrical Logical Systems.
    • A physical structure containing equipments and electrical physical system.
    • Only the logical and physical roots are linked through implement relation.
    • Both logical equipments have pre-defined part number. Three instances are created in physical.

  2. Open the logical and physical data:
    1. From the Search Results panel, right-click the logical or the physical root and select Explore With > Explore with System Finder.

      For more information, see System Finder User's Guide: Exploring RFLP Structures.

      Both logical and physical roots are explored in System Finder.
    2. In the tree, select both roots and select Open in the context menu.
    3. Activate the physical root product in Generative Electrical 3D Design.
  3. From the Generative Electrical 3D Design section of the action bar, click Logical to Physical .
    The Logical to Physical Synchronization Manager dialog box appears. The name of the selected element is displayed in the dialog box.
  4. Select the physical root product in the dialog box and check the Scan and resolve links option.
  5. Click Scan Links.
    Data is analyzed to find existing implement links between the logical and physical. The result is displayed with the logical tree structure and their link status.The result is filtered for Unlinked status, so only elements with Unlinked status and elements required to maintain the tree structure are visible.
  6. Select a logical wire harness or an equipment. You can see the compatible physical elements in the corresponding tab.
  7. Select a physical element proposed in the Logical to Physical dialog box.
    The red bullet turns green in front of the logical and physical elements and the logical equipment comment changes into: Linked by user.

    Notes:

    • When you select a logical component, you can see the Corresponding Physical Path in the second frame of the dialog box.
    • The scenario above shows you that you can select the compatible physical element in the dialog box. But if you click Select element, then you can also select it directly in the tree.

  8. Once you have created the missing implement links, click Analyze.
    The analysis is performed depending on the physical elements selected by the user. A report is displayed.
    Note: If the update of implement links is not performed, the Logical to Physical synchronization behavior remains unchanged.

    The Modification column informs you about the link analysis / update of the physical elements:

    • New: if the logical object is not already linked to any physical and it is not linked by the user, it is seen as New with the Accepted Status. It means that the object exists in the logical, but not in the physical and it has to be created.
    • Modified: if the physical element corresponding to logical already exists and it is modified.
    • Deleted: states that the physical elements do not have link with any logical element.
    • Warning: states that the elements cannot be synchronized due to missing or incorrect dependencies / information.
    • Unchanged: if the logical element is already linked or is linked by the user to the physical element which is not modified, it is seen Unchanged.
    • Refused by BR: states that the synchronization of the element is refused by the business rule.
    • If you Reject an object, there will be no additional modification on it during synchronization.
      Note: No modification is done on objects at this stage. The Reject command is to avoid any change for the selected element during synchronization. The user only selects the objects to be linked and implement links are created during the Synchronize command.
    • Unknown: states that the modification information of an element could not be computed.

    In the Status column, you can accept, refuse or ask for validation via the context menu. If you select Accept, the component with its implement links will be synchronized.

    In the User Comments, you can also create your free text.

    The logical elements which have been connected to physical elements are seen as Unchanged because only implement links have been created, without instance modification. In this case, the context menu for user validation is not available:

  9. Click to see the analysis report at the bottom of the dialog box.
    This is the same information as that of the HTML Report .
    Note: If you select the Automatically update status for Dependencies and Dependents option, the warning is not displayed (cf. step 5 in Synchronizing Logical Data with Physical Data).
  10. Click to see all the modifications (accept / reject status) done by the system.
  11. Click Synchronize.
    The physical data is synchronized with the logical data. Implement links between logical and physical selected during Scan and resolve links stage are created.

  12. Click Close.
  13. Create branches, and then route the conductors.
  14. From the standard area of the action bar, click Link Review (or Network Assistant ) to validate the network created by the logical to physical synchronization.
  15. Click Scan Links.
    Only the Unlinked elements are displayed. All the elements for which implement links were created in earlier synchronization have the Linked status and are filtered.