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catipash1-Visitor
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October 17, 2014
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Creating Flattening Harness

  • October 17, 2014
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Say for Example I have 20 wire routed, out of which

1) 10 wire follow network path A

2) 5 wires follow network path B

3) another 5 wires follow network path C.

While creating flatten harness it will ask for start point when we give start point it will create flatten Harness only for

a) 1st 10 wires following network path A

and i will have to create 2 more separate flatten harness for 5+5 wires passing through Network Path B and Path C.

I want to know is this the right procedure? or I can create one single Flatten Harness for all the 20 wires passing through different network path that is "A","B" and "C".


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gkoch1-Visitor
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October 20, 2014

If all wires start at the same location or meet in common locations, then you can create one flat harness of them.

Select the common locations as start points to fan out the different branches (you can fan out in multiple steps)

Otherwise I see no reason why you want to have one flat harness for different, non-connected harnesses.

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catipash1-VisitorAuthor
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October 21, 2014

Hi Gunter,

Thank you for your answer, It gave me some good clarity, I want to understand few things:

1) If I have 20 wires few starting from different start points and few from same start points and ending at different end points but all the 20 wires are passing through say at least 2-3 location point of the Network created through which the cables are flowing. do I need to create one flatten harness the answer will be "yes" but the drawing looks very confusing so is there any solution?

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gkoch1-Visitor
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October 22, 2014

Flat harness is a completely new model that references your cabling.

You have control over what you want to "fan out", you do not have to do this for all cables and wires.

There is an automatic option that tries to fan out in all directions based from your starting point. But you can also select a point where you want to fan to. Then you can select a new start and end point to fan in this direction. In the end you have only those cables in your flat harness, that you need and you can automatically attach the connectors you want to see.

If you want to have multiple separate flat harnesses (for being less confusing), you can simply create multiple flat harness models.

Talking about at least 2-3 common locations: In some harnesses with multiple common locations there may be closed loops. This is always a situation, where the user has to take control and solve those loops. Harness MFG allows you to open the loops where you want them opened, in order to be able to create a flat representation.

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