Creating Bundles and Harnesses > Harness

Creating a Bundle in a Diagram

You can create a bundle in a diagram to join together slots. It represents an available wire routing path within the electrical system.

Procedure

Press Space Bar and enter Bundle.
Position the mouse cursor over a grid point where you want to place one end of the bundle.You can define sections in the bundle by clicking once to place a segment end-point and then continuing to drag the line.
You can connect a bundle to a slot or another bundle. To place the end-point of the bundle, double-click the location where you want the bundle to end. Alternatively, left-click once with the mouse on the location and then right-click to display a pop-up menu and choose Commit.

The line color changes and the bundle is added to the list in the Design Browser (Design tab).
Bundles that are connected together form a harness and these bundles are listed under the harness in the Design Browser (Design tab).
A single bundle that is not connected to any other harnesses is listed under a harness by itself.
When you connect bundles from two separate harnesses together, the harnesses merge to form one harness in the diagram and in the Design Browser (Design tab).
If you connect bundles together in such a way that it forms a loop, a through node is created on the last bundle that you create in the loop. A Through Node is green, whereas other nodes are blue. You can manually add through nodes to bundles. See Creating a Through Node on a Bundle for more information on through nodes.
If you connect a bundle to a slot, a slot connector is created automatically where the bundle and slot connect. The slot connector displays as a gray square on the diagram.
You can connect further bundles from different harnesses to the same connector without the harnesses merging. See Multiple Harnesses at Connectors for more information.
When you have finished creating the bundles that make up a harness. You can specify the name for the harness by using the Properties dialog box. See Specifying the Name of an Object in a Design or Diagram for more information about specifying the name.

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Harness