Creating Harness Connectors

You can create a harness connector and its content.

in Data Setup, you can assign an harness connector representation to the Default Electrical Components Representation resource and insert it in a diagram view. If no representation is found for this type of electrical component, a representation is searched among its fathers' type.

The electrical component created to illustrate this scenario is a harness connector. The steps are the same for other electrical components.

Before you begin:
See Also
Placing and Connecting Harness Connectors Representations
Create Harness Connectors
  1. Activate the diagram view.
  2. From the Edition section of the action bar, click Create New Reference .
  3. In the tree or in the diagram view, select the logical reference.
    The New Content dialog box appears.
  4. Expand the Electrical Logical tab and right-click Harness Connector.
  5. Optional: Select the Set attributes at creation option.

    Note: This option remains selected when creating the same type of component.

  6. Click Harness Connector.
    The Harness Connector dialog box appears.
  7. In the Series box, enter a value to use a filter to retrieve a contact. For more information, see Specification, Tables, and Filter Definition.
  8. In the Contact Type box, select a value to filter a contact.
  9. Optional: Only for harness connector, you can select Plug or Receptacle in the Style box.
  10. In the Harness Connector tab, type a name.
  11. Optional: To create the content of the harness connector, select the Content tab and complete the following boxes:
    1. Select the type of pin to be created in the Type list.
    2. Select the number of pins to be created in the Number box.
    3. Optional: Type a prefix for the pins' names in the Prefix box.

      Note: You can define forbidden characters through the Pin Name Forbidden Characters resource of the Data Setup to forbid the use of certain characters. If the name of the pin contains forbidden characters, you cannot validate your creation. When creating several pins, the forbidden characters are skipped.

    4. Type the name of the pins in the First Name box.

      Note: If there is more than one pin, the names of other pins are automatically generated based on the name entered for the first pin

    5. Optional: Type a suffix for the pins' names in the Suffix box.
  12. Click Add.
    The pins appear in the Pins To Be Created area.
    Note: To remove pins, select them in the Pins To Be Created area and click Remove.
  13. Click OK to create your harness connector and close the Harness Connector dialog box.

    A harness connector is created under the logical reference. Under the Extensions node, note that a connector node is created to store all the connectors. In our example, it aggregates a connector node containing the harness connector.

  14. Click the diagram view at the convenient place to insert the symbol.

    Note: Text templates can be defined for plug or receptacle ports using the Electrical Logical Extended Text Templates packages.

    The symbol is placed and a context toolbar appears.
  15. Optional: To modify the position of the symbol, select one of the following commands:
    • Flip horizontally
    • Flip vertically
    • Rotate to left by 90 degrees
    • Rotate to right by 90 degrees