Creating and Placing an Electrical Harness

You can create an electrical harness and place it in a diagram view. You can also define a representation in the Data Setup for harnesses. This representation is retrieved every time you place an harness in a diagram view.

Important: A harness can only be created under a logical reference.

Before you begin:
See Also
About Electrical Logical Systems
  1. Double-click 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 (Harness Network).

    Tip: You can select a logical component before or after selecting the command.

    The New Content dialog box appears.
  4. Expand the Electrical Logical tab and right-click Logical Harness.
  5. Optional: Select the Set attributes at creation option.

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

  6. Click Logical Harness.
    The Logical Harness dialog box appears.
  7. Type a name (H1) and click OK to create the harness and close the Logical Harness dialog box.
    In the tree, under the parent component (Harness Network), note that:
    • a H1 (Audio Harness) node is created and aggregates an Extensions node,
    • an Extensions node is created under the logical reference (Harness Network). This node will store all electrical objects you will create further. In our example, it aggregates a Harness node containing the extended electrical Harness (H1 (Audio Harness)).


    The symbol defined in Data Setup appears and follows your pointer.

  8. Click the diagram view at the convenient place to insert the symbol.
    The symbol is placed and a context toolbar appears.
  9. Click the diagram view to validate the creation.
    The symbol is inserted in the diagram view.
    Notes:
    • If another component is already placed, the harness symbol is not connected to the other symbol when placed in view.
    • If you place the harness symbol on a route, the route will not split.
    • No automatic link is performed when placing an harness symbol on a component or a route.