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7 Assign the reference designator for an individual occurrence or group.
The reference designator for the individual occurrence or group is required
in each harness assembly that uses the electrical part, not once on each
part occurrence.
Creating Electrical Parts
Use the Harness Part Features panel bar to add pins and the reference designator
placeholder. The reference designator and pins are specified while editing the
part file or editing the part in place. Pause the cursor over the toolbar to view
the tooltips.
Place Pins and Define Pin-level Properties
A connector can contain one or more pins. Valid geometry for pin selections
includes both associative and non associative points. The points you select
determine whether the pins are updated if the geometry to which they are
associated changes.
Non associative points are arbitrary points on any face. They do not update
if the geometry changes. Associative points, which update as the geometry is
changed, include any one of the following:
■ Existing work points
■ Center points on any circular component such as a face, a hole, and
cylindrical cuts or arc edges
■ Existing sketch points
■ Model vertices
Each pin must have a unique name. By default, each individual pin name is
a sequential number starting with 1. For pin groups, you provide a prefix letter
and start number, and then select the naming scheme that you need. Each
pin name within a part must be unique. When the browser name changes for
an individual pin, the pin name updates. The reverse is also true. To change
naming for a pin group, delete the pin group and recreate it with the naming
you need.
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