Harness Entry

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A placed Harness Entry.

Summary

A Harness Entry is an electrical design primitive that is placed within a Harness Connector. A Harness Entry is the connection point through which actual nets, buses and Signal Harnesses are combined to form a higher level Signal Harness.

Availability

Harness Entries are available for placement in the Schematic Editor only. Use one of the following methods to access the placement command:

choose Place » Harness » Harness Entry [P, H, E] from the 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 Entry placement mode. Placement is made by performing the following sequence of actions:

the Harness Connector is implicitly chosen by the position for the new Harness Entry by the mouse on the schematic sheet (this sheet needs to have at least one Harness Connector).
move the cursor to adjust the position of the Harness Entry in relation to any edge of the Harness Connector, then click or press Enter to anchor the Harness Entry and complete placement.
Continue placing further Harness Entries, or right-click or press Esc to exit placement mode.

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 Entry object.

The Hareness Entry dialog.

The Harness Entry 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 Entry object, which will be applied when placing subsequent Harness Entries.
During placement, the Harness Entry dialog can be accessed by pressing the Tab key.
After placement, the Harness Entry dialog can be accessed in one of the following ways:

double-clicking on the placed Harness Entry object
selecting the Harness Entry object and choosing Properties from the right-click pop-up menu
choosing the Change command from the Edit menu and then clicking once over the placed Harness Entry 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 Entry object directly in the workspace and change its location graphically. The Harness Connector itself gets resized automatically when you attempt to move the existing Harness Entry beyond the current extends of the Harness Connector.

A placed Harness Entry.

Click anywhere inside the dashed box and drag to reposition the Harness Entry within the Harness Connector as required. You can move a Harness Entry object outside of the Harness Connector and into another Harness Connector by holding down the Ctrl key while dragging the object.

If the Enable In-Place Editing option is enabled on the Schematic - General page of the Preferences dialog (Tools » Schematic Preferences), you will be able to edit the name for the Harness Entry directly in the workspace. Select the Harness Entry object and then click once to invoke the feature. Type the new name as required and then click away from the Harness Entry object or press Enter to effect the change.

If you attempt to graphically modify a Harness Entry 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

A Harness Entry can be connected directly to a wire, a bus or a Signal Harness. The Harness Type field in the Harness Entry dialog is used in special cases.
Should you need to negate (include a bar over the top of) a Harness Entry name, this can be done in one of two ways:

Include a backslash character after each character in the name (e.g. E\N\A\B\L\E).
Enable the Single '\' Negation option on the Schematic- Graphical Editing page of the Preferences dialog, then include one backslash character at the start of the name (e.g. \ENABLE).