Placing and Connecting Harness Connectors Representations

You can place and connect a harness connector in a diagram view. The harness connector is stretched to match the component size to which it is connected.

You can connect a harness connector to a connector port or to another harness connector.

Before you begin: For the purpose of this scenario:
  • In a diagram view, create and place an equipment and an equipment connector.
    Tip: You can also define their representations in Data Setup.
  • In Data Setup, assign an harness connector representation to the harness connector. For more information, see Electrical Logical Resources.
Note: The harness connector can be placed and connected even if the connector port representation is not placed in the diagram view.
See Also
Placing Connector Port Representation
  1. Create a harness connector.

    Note: If the harness connector already exists, right-click it and select Place in View.

    Once you have validated the creation of your harness connector, its representation appears and follows your pointer.
  2. Click anywhere, and click Smart Positioning Harness Connector on the context toolbar.
  3. Select the equipment or a pin of the equipment connector.

    Notes:
    • If only the equipment is placed in the diagram view, with no representation of the pins of the connector port, you have to choose the port orientation and select the pin to be displayed in the Ports dialog box.
    • If all pins of the harness connector are to be displayed, the harness connector is displayed with its full representation. For more information, see About Electrical Component Representation.
    • You can set a business rule to define the compatibility between two connectors (example: two connectors are incompatible if they do not have the same number of pins). For more information about this business rule, see Functional/Logical Connection Creation Check Business Logic (FLConnectionCreationCheck).

    The harness connector is placed and connected with the equipment connector. The pins are placed and aligned with the pin of the equipment connector, in the same order.

  4. Optional: To modify the distance between the end of the harness connector symbol and the last pin, click Offset = and modify the values in the Top Offset and Bottom Offset box.

    Tip: You can also select and hold the manipulators at each end of the symbol.

  5. Click anywhere to validate the position of the harness connector.