Electrical Systems, Networks & Harnesses

Captial Harness Designer Essentials

Rapid harness design completion.
Capital Harness Designer Essentials enables rapid harness design completion (addition of clips, tubes, seals, etc) and creation of 2D harness drawings.

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Rapid graphical layout and engineering of harness and formboard designs
Automatic generation of harness manufacturing reports including BOMs and cutting lists
Imports / Exports industry-standard harness exchange formats such as Capital 3D Harness (*.XML) and DS

Features and Benefits

Rapid graphical layout and engineering of harness and formboard designs
Automatic part selection of terminals, seals and connectors parts etc.
Automatic generation of harness manufacturing reports including BOMs and cutting lists
Harnesses can be drawn non-scaled or full size using formboard layout capabilities
Automated generation of connector, wire and splice tables
Built-in intelligent libraries for components and symbols
Wire lengths calculations include terminal and connector add-on/knock-off values
Integrates with VeSys Design to import wires, connectors and splices and then back-annotate wire lengths
Imports / Exports industry-standard harness exchange formats such as Capital 3D Harness (*.XML) and DSI
Test Drive tutorial included

Intuitive

Capital Harness Designer Essentials provides a graphical environment for creating harness and formboard drawings. Harness design authoring is made easy via an intuitive user interface. Built-in harness-engineering intelligence automates many design tasks. For example, connector table are automatically populated as wires are added, terminals are automatically selected and wire tables generated automatically . Furthermore, all entities have context sensitive menus giving the user the modification options appropriate for each different type of component. These and many other facilities make harness design a simple and quick task.

Powerful

Capital Harness Designer Essentials includes a powerful automated parts selector that automatically configures and selects terminals, seals, and wires for each connector, including allowances for add-ons and knock-offs, speeding design and eliminating a major source of problems found in the traditional design process.

Details including wire lengths and manufacturing reports are available instantly for viewing. New harness design data is validated prior to automatically generating the manufacturing documentation. The result is unsurpassed accuracy and productivity in harness design.
Diagram appearance–line weights, fonts, colors, symbols, borders, etc.–are fully customizable.
Libraries are provided for components and symbols and these can be shared and exchanged with other companies

Capital Harness Designer Essentials designs can be linked with Captial Essential Design diagrams, enabling wires, connectors and splices from the circuit to automatically populate the harness layout. Harness information such as wire lengths can be back annotated to the circuit diagram, further refining the electrical simulation accuracy.

Productive

Once a harness is complete, the powerful Capital Harness Designer Essentials reporting capabilities can be used to generate the documentation required for manufacturing. Because the reports are automatically generated directly from the design drawing, fast and accurate information is assured, significantly reducing production lead times and preventing manufacturing errors.

Capital Harness Designer Essentials interfaces with most major MCAD systems allowing accurate wire length information to be defined by the MCAD system.

Capital Harness Designer Essentials is simple to use, ships with a detailed video tutorial and requires minimal training allowing companies to become productive quickly. Experienced support staff and an active user community forum provide immediate support and answers to new and experienced users alike.

Future Proof

Capital Harness Designer Essentials is optimized for rapid deployment, with a small IT footprint, allowing companies to rapidly adopt an improved design process. Capital Essentials is also designed to support companies as they grow their business – Captial Essentials parts and symbols libraries are fully compatible with the powerful Capital electrical design system used by many large multi-site companies and Capital Harness Designer Essentials designs can be used directly by customers and suppliers using Capital or tools supporting DSI. Capital Harness Designer Essential users can implement a mixed Capital Essentials and Capital environment across multiple sites, all sharing the same library data, allowing companies to upgrade their Capital Essential installations to Capital as their business needs expand.