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Determine Best Cable Lays, Diameters & Construction

The HarnWare Cable Lay Design option determines the optimum lay of wires in each harness leg and produces cable cross-section drawings. Alternative lays of cables containing mixed diameter wires are automatically analysed to identify the smallest diameter and most even construction.

In the above example, the listbox contains the quantity of each wire diameter for which HarnWare has automatically developed 19 alternative design solutions. The minimum diameter alternative, which is shown, is 14.58 mm diameter. These diameters are calculated much more accurately by HarnWare than is possible with the simple formulae which are commonly used to estimate mixed diameter wire bundles. Three other examples of cable cross-sections included in a harness assembly drawing are shown below.