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Managing Wire Harnesses

Wire harnesses can be managed via the wire harness definition. The wire harness definition identifies the wire harness and contains all the relevant data of the wire harness as well as the parts of the wire harness.

Editing wire harness data

You can edit wire harness properties at a variety of locations:

Assigning functions and connections to a wire harness

The assignment of functions and connections to a specific wire harness is carried out via the property Wire harness name (ID 31143). In the properties table of the objects you enter the respective wire harness name for this property. In the navigators that display the wire harness data you can use the Wire harness name property as a filter criterion or display it in the list view as a column.

Through editing in tables you can assign or change a wire harness name rapidly and easily for selected functions and / or connections.

Part

The part of a wire harness assembly can be entered at the wire harness definition in the first line of the Part tab. The further lines of this tab are provided for parts (up to a maximum of 999) for which no corresponding EPLAN functions are available by default.

It is not absolutely necessary to create a wire harness assembly in the parts management. It is also possible to store parts only at the individual components of a wire harness (connections, cables, pins, etc.) during designing.

Reports

The parts data of the wire harnesses contained in a project can be listed in the bill of materials are be output in the corresponding reports (for example parts list, summarized parts list, etc.). You can specify in the dialog Settings: Parts whether only the wire harness assembly parts or / and the parts of the wire harness components are to be taken into consideration.

The following points are to be considered:

The parts data of the wire harnesses can also be taken into consideration at the output of manufacturing data / labeling. Analog setting options as for the parts reports are available in the Settings tab of the dialog Settings: Manufacturing data export / labeling.

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