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Wire Harness Panel
The Wire Harness panel is the connection list: one row per wire in the document's
wireHarness block, with its endpoints, diameter, routed length and status. It is a dock
tab titled Wire Harness, shown in the Wire harness and
All workbenches.
Header
- Add wire — adds a connection between the first two termination points in the model
(change them in the row) with diameter
1. Ids are mintedwire-1,wire-2, … and never reused; the name defaults toWire N. - Build bundles — on by default. Off keeps the routing (lengths and statuses) but sweeps no bundle solids.
- The summary
N connections | M endpoints | K routed. Endpoints counts every connection point in the model, waypoints included. - Below the header, any spline that could not become a network segment is listed with the reason (attached at one end only, or both ends on the same point).
- Below that, any bundle that was not built says why on its own line —
bend too tight for the bundle, orthe bundle could not be swept— with the kernel's full sentence on hover.
Columns
| Column | Editor | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| Wire | text | The connection's name |
| From / To | dropdown | The endpoint connection points, listed by their address — J1.VCC, or ACOMP1:J1.VCC for a point carried by a placed part. The address is unique by construction, so no disambiguation suffix is needed. Only terminations are offered, never a Waypoint. The document stores the address. |
| Dia | number | The wire diameter, must be positive |
| Length | read-only | The routed length (the exact arc length of every spline crossed, base point to base point), or — |
| Status | badge | Routed, Not routed before the model has run, or the reason: Missing port, Waypoint end, Same port, No splines, No route, Port reused. Hover the badge for the detail. |
| menu | Remove wire |
Every edit is one undo step and re-runs the history; the tail of the run re-routes the wires, so lengths and statuses update with the model.
Hover
Hovering a row highlights, in the viewport, the wire's two end points and the bundle solid of every spline its route crosses.
Cut lengths
Each wire's cut length, the routed length plus the cut margin, is its line in the BOM panel.
Related
- Wire Harness Workbench
- BOM panel
- Qualify panel (connection points), Waypoint, Spline