Wire

A wire represents an electrical connection between two components in the harness. Each wire can be assigned a wire part.

Adding a Wire

In the Schematic View, drag from the connection handle of one component to another to create a wire.

Assigning Color

If no part is assigned to a Wire, you can manually set its color. Right-click the wire in the Schematic, Layout, or Connection view and choose a Color from the menu. More colors can be selected by clicking More at the bottom of the color list. The Stripe color can be assigned in the same way but selecting Stripe from the menu.

Assigning Idents

To add a color ident band to a wire, right-click the wire and then click the + button next to Ident. You can add multiple color ident bands to a wire and they will be displayed in the order they were added. To remove a color band, right-click on the wire and then click the color square for that ident.

To add a label ident to a wire, right-click the wire and then click on the Ident placeholder text in the menu.

The label background color can be set by clicking the + button and adding a color ident. If the number of color idents matches the number of characters in the label, each character will be displayed with a background color corresponding to the color ident.

Layout a Wire

To layout a Wire you use Layout Points.

Dimmed Wire Path

The Dim path feature improves schematic readability by visually breaking a Wire. This is useful when a Wire spans the full width of the schematic or crosses beneath other components. Dimming a wire has no effect on the physical harness and is purely for making the Schematic View visually cleaner.

To dim a wire path, right-click a wire and select Dim path from the dropdown menu.

A Dimmed Wire will show up as two arrows connected by a faint bezier line.

Dashed Wires

Wires appear as dashed lines in the Schematic View when they are not yet routed through a bundle in the Layout View.

You can hide the dashed lines by de-selecting Dash undefined routes from the Schematic View Options menu.

Jumper Wire

A Jumper Wire (loopback wire) can be created by dragging from one cavity to another within the same connector in the Schematic View.