Copy and Paste a Harness Section

You can copy and paste a section of a harness onto any diagram in your design or between diagrams in different designs or projects to reduce the time to replicate branches and associated objects, such as bundles, connectors, additional components, properties, or insulations.

This video shows how you can use the copy and paste actions.

You can copy and paste the following design objects in accordance with the rules:

• Assemblies

• Bundles

• Clips

• Comments

• Connectors

• Devices

• Dimensions

• Grommets

• Insulation Runs

• Multi-Location Node Cavity and Wire End Components

• Multicores

• Node

• Other Components

• Ring Terminals

• Splices

• Spot and Breakout Tape

• Wires

Restriction

You cannot select mid or end-branch objects (clips, grommets, splices, and connectors) on their own to copy because they are linked to a bundle. You must select a part of their associated bundle to copy them.

You can use the Grid Snap icon () on the Status Bar to copy and paste bundles on the target diagram on or off the grid.

If you copy a bundle which contains nodes on the grid, you can select the Grid Snap icon to pasted the bundle on the grid to easily reconnect to the harness. If the Grid Snap icon is off, the bundle is pasted off grid at the cursor location.

Styling Included with Copy / Paste

You can use the “Retain decoration overrides on paste to diagram” system preference to preserve the current style set and any overridden decorations when you copy and paste the harness or section of the harness, or apply the style set associated with the target design.

See also “Project Preferences for Capital Harness Designer and Capital Harness Designer Modular Designs” in the Capital Design Tools - Common Functions User Guide.

Data

Included with Copy / Paste

The following information is included with the copy / paste for all objects, where applicable:

• Name Names are copied according to the Pasting rules.

• Part Number The same part number is assigned.

• Properties All properties are copied.

• Option Expressions Option codes configured against a copied component are only pasted if they already exist in the target project / design.

• Functional and Production Modular Expressions Functional module codes configured against a copied component are pasted only to targets in the same project. They are not pasted to targets in different projects. Production module codes configured against a copied component are never pasted to a target diagram.

• Editable Attributes All are copy / pasted with the object.

Note

You can only copy / paste between diagrams of the same type:

• A non-full scale diagram to a non-full scale diagram.

• A full scale diagram to a full scale diagram.

Object	Selection Method	Additional Data Copy / Pasted
Assemblies	Select all component parts of one assembly. Select all component parts of one assembly and the assembly.
Breakout Tape	Select with an associated bundle.	Insulation code, insulation details.
Bundle	Select one or more.	Lengths, variant option expression codes, variant functional / production module codes, rules, variant length option, variant length functional, and production module. Note The pasted codes display in red if they do not currently exist on the target design.
Clip	Select with an associated bundle.	Additional components, variant positions.
Comment	Select comment and optionally another object.
Connector	Select with an associated bundle.	Route, cavity properties, backshells, additional components, modular configuration, variant position details, cavity components (terminals, seals and plugs), extra cavity components, multi-end connectors.
Device	Select with an associated bundle.	Additional components, variant positions.
Dimensions	Select any of the following with an associated bundle: Reference Standard Contiguous External Axial X Axial Y Axial XY	Properties. Note Dimensions to symbol datum nodes are only copied if the “Retain decoration overrides on paste to diagram” preference is selected. See Project Preferences for Capital Harness Designer and Capital Harness Designer Modular Designs.
Grommet	Select with an associated bundle.	Additional components, variant positions.
Insulation Run	Select with an associated bundle.	Insulation code, insulation details.
Multicore	Select one or more multicores in the Harness Design browser.	Inner core wires, inner wire markers, inner wire notes. Note Inner wire end components are not pasted.
	Select one or more multicores, including one or more ends using the Extending a Selection action.	Inner core wires including End 1 and End 2 termination details as per selection, inner wire markers, inner wire notes, inner wire end components.
Multi-location Node / Cavity / Wire End Components	Select one MLC and all or partial linked components.	Additional components, MLC component.
Node	One or more nodes with a connected bundle.
Other Component	Select with an associated bundle.	Additional components, variant positions.
Ring Terminal	Select with an associated bundle.	Route, additional components, variant positions.
Splice	Select with an associated bundle.	Additional components, variant positions.
Spot Tape	Select with an associated bundle.	Insulation code, insulation details, variant positions.
Wire	Select one or more wires in the Harness Design browser.	Wire markers, wire notes Note End 1, End 2 termination details, wire end components, center strip splices are not pasted.
	Select one or more wires, including one or more ends using the Extending a Selection action.	End 1 and End 2 termination details as per selection, wire end components, wire markers, wire notes, center strip splices.

Parent Topic:

Copy Paste and Duplicate Objects

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