About Electrical Objects and Logical Systems Routing

From the Logical Systems Routing (LSR) app, electrical objects can be routed through pathways created from the logical 3D world. You can decide to associate a conductor or a harness to a 3D route (made by the 3D segments between the components), using the LSR Route Logical Connection command.

This page discusses:

Conductors

This section describes which object can be routed via LSR.

The following electrical objects can be selected and routed via LSR, as if these objects were logical connections:

  • Wire
  • Cable
  • Net
  • Net group.

The wire is seen as a routable object and is routed exactly like a logical connection.

To associate the wire with a 3D route, select the wire and the segments. The components are highlighted, and the space reservation is done.

For a cable, the routing mechanism check the wires gathered under the cable. If these wires connect the same components, the cable is routed exactly like one of its wires.

The routing mechanism is the same for a net or a net group (which can connect more than two components).

Where logical connections are routed, the 3D shape at the end of the connections and the pathway segments in the route are highlighted.

Note: For more information about routing, see the Systems 3D Allocation User 's Guide: Routing: Routing Manually.

Harnesses

Before routing a harness, it is recommended to create links between a harness and one or more existing harness connectors, splices or connector ports of a disconnect. In the image below, you can see the implicit links of the harnesses. Blue dotted frames have been added on this image to help you distinguish the harness content and connections ends:

For more information about implicit links, see Managing Harness Content.

A harness is a routable object when it has the following ends:

  • Equipment: if a connector is connected to a piece of equipment, the equipment is seen as an end of the harness, instead of the connector.
  • Disconnect (formerly named Inline Connector): in the case of harness content links, two harnesses sharing the same IC can be routed. The disconnect is considered as the end of both harnesses.
  • Harness Connector (formerly names Single Connector): considered as an end if not connected to a piece of equipment.
  • Shell

A harness connected to a splice is not routed because of the presence of the splice. A splice is not considered as an end.

When the harness is routed, its connection ends and pathway segments are highlighted in the 3D.