Associating Wiring Designs With the 3D Electrical Context

To route wiring in the 3D electrical context, you must associate one or more designs from Capital Logic Designer with it. When doing this, you associate a specific revision of each design.

You can associate more than one logical design with the 3D electrical context. To do this, you can associate the designs individually or associate a build list.

Prerequisites

• You must consider whether to select the “Retain topology properties not defined on associated connector” project preference for Capital Wiring Integrator to control how and when the action overwrites or deletes properties on topological objects. For a description of the impact of this project preference, see “Project Preferences for Capital Wiring Integrator Designs” in the Capital Design Tools – Common Functions User Guide.

Procedure

1. Click the Associate Logical Designs button () in the Design Browser or Wiring Browser of the Capital navigator window.
   The Associate Wiring Designs

Dialog Box is displayed and the Associated Designs window displays any logical designs that are associated already.

2. Decide whether you want associate individual designs or a build list:

Table 3: Association Choice If you want to...

									Do the following:

								

							

						

							
								
									Associate individual designs

								

								
									
										
											Click the Managed by Build List
											dropdown list and select None.

										

										
											Click the Add associated designs
											button (); the Add Selected Logical

Design Dialog Box is displayed.

											In the Logical designs window,
											select the logical designs to associate and click
											Add
											Selected; the logical designs are
											added to the Associated Designs window in the
											Associate Wiring Designs dialog box.

											An icon () is displayed next to the
											added designs.

											If you add a design that is a
											newer revision of an already associated design,
											the following indicates that the new one will
											replace the old: 

										

										
											Click OK to save the changes.

										

									
								

							

							
								
									Associate a build list

								

								
									
										
											Click the Managed by Build List
											dropdown list and select the build list; the
											design revisions from the build list are displayed
											in the Associated Designs window.

										

										
											Click OK to associate the design revisions
											from the build list.

										

									
								

							

						

			
			
				Tip 
					When associating individual designs, you can select the
						design in the Associated Designs window and click the Remove associated designs button () to remove the association with a logical
						design. An icon () displays to indicate
						that the association will be removed when you click OK.

Results

• The Wiring Browser in the Capital navigator window lists the devices, connectors, multicores, splices, and wires from the associated Capital Logic Designer designs. If a logical device has the same name as a topology slot, the device is placed in the slot (unless constraints dictate otherwise).

• If a harness connector has the same name as a slot connector in the 3D electrical context, an association is created between them. If a device connector is attached to a harness connector in the Capital Logic Designer design, a device connector is created as a separate object that is connected to the slot connector. The device connector is added to the Design Browser in the Capital Navigator..

• After placing devices in their assigned slots, the system places the connectors attached to each device as well. If there are leftover connectors that have not been placed yet, the system tries to match and place them into slot connectors based on their names. This placement is visible in the Design Browser. When a device is used in more than one slot, its relevant connectors are displayed in each slot’s Connectors node automatically. Note When importing designs from MCAD, sometimes the system does not receive complete device information. In these cases, the system creates slots using the connector names and places the corresponding slot connectors there.

• If an inline plug connector or an inline receptacle connector from the Capital Logic Designer designs has the same name as one in the 3D electrical context, an association is created between them.

• Wires associated with bundles in the 3D electrical context are added to the Design Browser, under the Unassigned node or, if grouped into signals, under the Signals node.

• Any items that have not been placed or routed are dimmed in the Wiring Browser.

• The Sync tab in the Capital Output Window displays any messages or errors related to this action.

Parent Topic:

Wiring Designs from Capital Logic Designer

3D Electrical Design User Guide, 2512.2606

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