Import of Carry-Over Wiring

Many vehicle programs have a high percentage of systems and legacy wiring that are carried-over from existing vehicles. If the new vehicle requires only minor changes, it may not be desirable to re-create all the system designs and attempt to re-create the existing wiring in a full generative process. Instead of this, you can import the wiring in X2ML format (Harness X2ML or Wiring X2ML) into a Capital Systems Integrator design and then integrate any new or changed systems into these existing harnesses. You can generate the required X2ML data from existing Capital Harness Designer or Capital Logic Designer wiring designs or you can potentially translate it from any third-party wiring format.

This enables the following:

• You can import X2ML data for a harness for re-use in a Capital Systems Integrator design. All connectors are imported as interface connectors. Note If the X2ML includes the bundle topology, the system imports it. Otherwise, it creates a dummy topology, which you can modify in Capital Systems Integrator.

                The Import Harness action does not support specialized
                    connectors.
  

• Each wire must be associated with a signal. You can define how signals are identified from the imported data (for example, extracted from the wire's name).

• You can incorporate new systems by associating a Capital Logic Designer design (system design) and placing the new devices into slots as normal.

• You can also retain imported wiring for modified devices by merging an imported interface connector into a new slot. For example, you have imported a harness that includes a radio. The radio is represented by an interface connector in Capital Systems Integrator. In a system design in Capital Logic Designer, you add some extra signals to the radio and then associate the system design with the Capital Systems Integrator design. The modified radio is represented as a device in Capital Systems Integrator. You want to use this device to determine the signals but want to keep the old wiring. To do this, you place the radio device in a slot and then merge the interface connector into that slot. This replaces the interface connector with a slot connector but retains the wiring.

• High-level Flow for Importing Carry-Over Wiring

• Importing Carry-Over Wiring

• Merging a Slot and Interface Connector

Parent Topic:

Wiring

Capital Systems Integrator User Guide, 2512.2606

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