Defining a Cable Harness
Create a cable harness consisting of a collection of cable instances routed along a cable path with a solution method specified for the outer conductor.
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On the Cables tab, in the
Create Instance group, click the
Cable Harness icon.
Figure 1. The Modify Cable Harness dialog.Note: An empty cable harness instance is created in the Configuration tab without launching a dialog.
View the cable instances routed along a specific cable path.
Specify the cable coupling properties for the cable harness.
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On the Solution tab, under Cable coupling
properties, select one of the following:
- To only consider the effect of external fields coupling into the cable harness, click Irradiating.
- To only consider the effect of currents radiating from the cable harness, click Radiating.
- To consider the combined effect of external fields coupling into the cable harness and currents radiating from the cable harness, click Radiating (taking irradiation into account).
- To consider the effect of intra coupling between cables in a harness (no
external field coupling into the harness), click Circuit
crosstalk.Note: The wideband Circuit crosstalk solution is active when:
- All cable harnesses have Circuit crosstalk cable coupling properties enabled.
- No requests (except cable probe requests) are defined or the requests for each configuration is excluded.
- No sources (except cable sources) are defined in the configuration.
Figure 2. The Modify Cable Harness dialog (Solution tab).
Specify the solution method for the harness (outer cable).