Managing Cavities Reservation

To manage concurrent engineering in the same connectors, you can reserve cavities or shunts before allocating all the wires to their respective cavities.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin:
  • Generate the wiring data.
  • Open the wiring and net system.
  • Define physical objects for disconnects and terminal blocks.

Reserve Cavities

You can reserve a group of cavities or shunts. All the cavities/shunts must belong to the same harness and have a Free status.

  1. From the Net to Wire section of the action bar, click Wiring Definition Assistant .
    The Wiring Definition Assistant dialog box appears. In the Reservation tab, the harness connectors and their content are displayed under a Free node.
  2. In the Wiring Definition Assistant dialog box, select a free cavity or shunt.
  3. Select a free cavity or shunt on the 3D View tab, the Reservation tab or the Cavities tab.
  4. Click Create New Reservation .
  5. In the Connection Reservation dialog box:
    1. Optional: Select more cavities in the 3D view or Reservation or Cavities tab to add to the reservation.
    2. Optional: Select an element purpose of the connection in the Nets tab.
    3. In the Reservation name box, enter an identifier of the reservation.
    4. In the Reservation box, enter a user name for the reservation.
      This user will be able to allocate a wire to this cavity afterwards.
    5. Click OK.

    In the Reservation tab, a reservation with the name entered in the Reservation name box is created. The reserved cavities are displayed under this reservation.

    In the 3D View tab, the reserved cavities appear in green with a lock symbol.

Modify Existing Reservation

You can modify an existing reservation.

  1. From the Net to Wire section of the action bar, click Wiring Definition Assistant .
  2. In the Reservation tab, select a reserved cavity or shunts.

    Note: You can also select a reservation.

  3. Click Modify Existing Reservation .

Delete Reservation

You can delete an existing reservation.

  1. From the Net to Wire section of the action bar, click Wiring Definition Assistant .
  2. In the Reservation tab, select a reservation.
  3. Click Delete Reservation .