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Wire Harness Workbench

The Wire Harness workbench is for routed wire runs across assembly ports and spline-guided harness paths. It narrows creation tools to the geometry needed for harness authoring and exposes the harness connection list in the sidebar.

Features

Side Panels

  • Harness Connections: create wires, set From and To, assign diameters, route the harness, inspect status and length, and insert the current connection list into a 2D sheet table.
  • Assembly Constraints: position the components that own the ports.
  • PMI Views: remains available like it does in other modeling-oriented workbenches.

Typical Workflow

  1. Add the assembly components that contain the ports you want to connect.
  2. Add ports and create spline features that define the allowed harness path through the model.
  3. Attach spline points to ports and confirm the correct side selection (A or B) for each attachment.
  4. Use the Harness Connections panel to add wires, set endpoint labels, and enter the wire diameter for each connection.
  5. Click Route to rebuild the harness. The list reports route length and status for each wire.
  6. Hover a row to highlight the related ports and routed tube geometry.
  7. Click To Sheet to place the current connection list on a 2D sheet.

Routing Notes

  • Routing operates on the spline network built from the current harness splines and attached ports.
  • The router respects attached port side selection. If no valid sided path exists, the wire remains unrouted and the status column shows the failure.
  • Shared spline segments render as a bundle. Segment diameter increases as more wires use that segment.
  • The Route action also shows the JSON payload passed into the routing logic, which is useful when debugging a harness setup.

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