Harness Connector

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A placed Harness Connector.

Summary

A Harness Connector object is an electrical drawing primitive. It is essentially a container to group various signals together to form a Signal Harness including buses and wires. A Harness Connector is defined by the Harness Type.

Availability

Harness Connector objects are available for placement in the Schematic editor only:

Choose Place » Harness » Harness Connector [P, H, C] from the Schematic Editor main menus.
Click the button on the Wiring toolbar.

Placement

After launching the command, the cursor will change to a cross-hair and you will enter Harness Connector placement mode. Placement is made by performing the following sequence of actions:

click or press Enter to anchor the tip of the Harness Connector.
move the cursor to adjust the size of the Harness Connector, then click or press Enter to anchor the corner and thereby complete placement of the Harness Connector.
Continue to place other Harness Connectors or right-click or press Esc to exit placement mode.

Additional Placement Actions

Press the Spacebar to rotate the Harness Connector. Rotation is anti-clockwise and in steps of 90°
Press the X or Y keys to flip the Harness Connector along the X-axis or Y-axis respectively.

Any changes made to object properties during placement will cause the default properties for the object to be updated, unless the Permanent option on the Schematic - Default Primitives page of the Preferences dialog is enabled. When this option is enabled, changes made will affect only the object being placed and subsequent objects placed during the same placement session.

Non-Graphical Editing

The following three methods of non-graphical editing are available:

...via an associated properties dialog

This method of editing uses the following dialog to modify the properties of a Harness Connector object.

The Harness Connector Dialog.

The Harness Connector dialog can be accessed prior to entering placement mode, from the Schematic - Default Primitives page of the Preferences dialog (Tools » Schematic Preferences). This allows you to change the default properties for the Harness Connector object, which will be applied when placing subsequent Harness Connector objects.
During placement, the Harness Connector dialog can be accessed by pressing the Tab key.
After placement, the Harness Connector dialog can be accessed in one of the following ways:

double-clicking on the placed Harness Connector object.
selecting the graphic object and choosing Properties from the right-click pop-up menu (Schematic Editor only).
choosing the Change command from the Edit menu and then clicking once over the placed harness connector object.

...via the SCH Inspector panel

The SCH Inspector panel enables you to interrogate and edit the properties of one or more design objects in the active document. Used in conjunction with appropriate filtering, the panel can be used to make changes to multiple objects of the same kind, from one convenient location.

...via the SCH List panel

The SCH List panel allows you to display design objects from one or more documents in tabular format, enabling you to quickly inspect and modify object attributes. When used in conjunction with the SCH Filter panel, it enables you to display just those objects falling under the scope of the active filter - allowing you to target and edit multiple design objects with greater accuracy and efficiency.

Graphical editing

This method of editing allows you to select a placed Harness Connector object directly in the workspace and change its size, shape or location, graphically.
When a Harness Connector object is selected, the following editing handles are available:

A selected Harness Connector.

Click and drag A to resize the Harness Connector in the vertical and horizontal directions simultaneously.
Click and drag B to resize the Harness Connector in the vertical and horizontal directions separately.
Click anywhere on the Harness Connector - away from editing handles - and drag to reposition it. The Harness Connector can be rotated or flipped while dragging.

If you attempt to graphically modify a Harness Connector object that has its Locked property enabled, a dialog will appear asking for confirmation to proceed with the edit.
If the Protect Locked Objects option is enabled in the Schematic - Graphical Editing page of the Preferences dialog (Tools » Schematic Preferences), and the Locked option for this design object is enabled as well then this object cannot be selected or graphically edited. You will have to double click on this locked object directly and disable the Locked property or disable the Protect Locked Objects option to graphically edit this object.

Notes

The Harness Type option in the Harness Connector dialog defines the type of the Harness Connector. When a Harness Type is used within your project, the corresponding Harness Definition for this Harness Type is referenced.
When you place a Harness Connector, you can specify the Harness Type by double clicking on the Harness Connector object and populating the Harness Type field in the dialog or clicking directly on the Harness Connector Type field. By default, newly placed Harness Connectors are given the Harness Type Harness.
The Harness Type can be hidden from view or moved to save space in your design. Enable the Hide Harness Type option in the Harness Connector dialog or select the Harness Connector, open the SCH List panel and enable the Hide Harness Type option or double click on the Harness Type object and enable the Hide option.