Composite Data Management > Harness Replacement Technology

Importing a Harness into Capital Systems Integrator

You can use Capital Systems Integrator to import the data for an individual harness from an XML file that you have exported from Capital. When importing the harness data, you can either create a new harness in the design or overwrite an existing harness.

Prerequisites

You must have a set of Capital Logic Designer designs that cover everything in the harness and those designs must be associated with the Capital Systems Integrator design into which you are importing the harness.

Procedure

With a Capital Systems Integrator diagram open, either:Press Space Bar and enter Import Harness.

Right-click the harness to be overwritten in the Design Browser (Design tab) and choose Import Harness.

An Import Harness dialog box displays

Browse to the XML file, select it and click Import.

Results

If you selected a harness to overwrite, the new harness data is imported and overwrites it.
If you did not select a harness to overwrite, the new harness is imported and is added to the Design Browser (Design tab) and is placed in free space in the diagram window. Note that if it has the same name as an existing harness in the design, a message displays on a Harness Import tab in the Output Window at the bottom of the application.
If you have overwritten a harness, the Harness Import tab in the Output Window also reports on any changes that are required to any other harnesses as a result of the import and displays any warnings where differing data has caused issues.
If you are importing a harness that was created across multiple diagrams, the system returns the objects to each diagram if they exist or creates the diagrams as required.
Although the data file does not include actual library parts, it does include object attributes such as Part Number so the import automatically re-associates any available library parts.
Slots on the imported harness that also exist on other harnesses are merged.
Constraints on the imported harness and its child objects are retained.
Rules that are on the imported harness and its children and are present (matched by UID and then name) on the harness to be overwritten are retained on the harness after the import.
Rules that are on the harness in the XML file but are not in the database are removed and do not appear on the harness after the import.
References to custom constraints are included in the transfer but the constraints themselves are not.
Harness levels on the imported harness are retained.
Vehicle models are not included in the transfer.
If an option (matched by UID and then name) does not exist on the target project. In this case, the import removes the option from any harness levels that reference it.
You can map a combined wire to an inline cavity. During export, all inlines convert to interface connectors. When an interface connector imports onto a target diagram, the signal carried by that wire is a combined signal. When an importing harness contains a combined signal that is not present on the diagram, the import combines the appropriate matching child signals on the design to create a new combined signal if the user has the diagram locked.
If an imported slot contains a device that is currently placed in a different slot on the target design, the device is unplaced from the slot on the target design and the wiring is deleted. The exception to this is when the device is variantly placed in both slots and the variants are different, in which case the device is left alone.
If a slot in the XML file already exists on the diagram but exists on multiple harnesses, the incoming slot merges with the target slot following these rules: All slot connectors on the incoming harness are added to the existing slot.

If the devices in a slot are not mapped to the connectors that are being imported, then they are left alone.

Properties of the incoming slot are merged into the existing slot. If there is a collision between properties, the incoming slot is the master.

Rules on the incoming slot are added to the existing slot - collisions are not resolved.

Connectors are imported following the same rules as described for slots.

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Harness Replacement Technology