Properties dialog box (Electrical Routing)

Specifies the material for the harness conductor.

Displays property information about the selected wire harness element. For example, if you select a wire, the drop-down menu will list all of the wires found in the SEConductors.txt file.

Custom

Displays the Custom Attributes dialog box which so you can add custom attributes to a wire, cable, or bundle.

Use Default Values

Specifies how you want to define the values for the pre-defined property options. If you select this option, the default value defined on the Electrical Routing tab of the Options dialog box is used. If you de-select this option, you can type values for these options.

Slack

Specifies the percentage of slack you want to add to the true length of the harness element when computing the cut length.

Added Length

Specifies the fixed amount of slack you want to add to the true length of the harness element when computing the cut length.

Clearance Through Holes

Specifies the percentage to be used when computing the clearance between the harness element and any holes through which it passes. The default is 20 percent, which means the hole diameter must be 1.2 times the harness element diameter.

Clearance Through Bundles

Specifies the percentage to be used when computing the clearance between the bundle and the harness elements making up the bundle. The default is 10 percent, which means the inside diameter of the bundle must be 1.1 times the sum of the diameters of the harness elements.

True Length

Displays the actual length of the harness element, with no compensation for slack.

Cut Length

Displays the cut length of the harness element, which is computed by taking the true length of the harness element and adding any slack compensation, based on the Percentage and Fixed Amount values.

The calculated cut length of a cable is based on the wires it contains.  If the cable contains no wires, the cut length is the same as the path length. If the cable contains wires, the cut length is based on the longest wire it contains, including the slack compensation.

Mass

Displays the mass for the harness element, which is computed by multiplying the cut length by the element's linear density.