Combination of ground devices in wiring harness designs
First Claim
1. A method of combining ground devices in an electronic wire harness design tool, comprising:
- displaying a plurality of passive ground devices on the wire harness design tool;
automatically combining by connecting at least two of the plurality of ground devices into a combined ground device according to at least one electronically stored ground combination rule, wherein the ground combination rule is to combine the passive ground devices having a substantially equivalent property, which includes at least one of the following;
having a same color or made from a same material.
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Abstract
A method can include allowing a user to place a first wiring harness design component within a wiring harness topology in a wiring harness design workspace, allowing the user to place a first plurality of ground devices within the first wiring harness design component placed in the wiring harness topology, allowing the user to request an automatic ground combination, and, in response to the user requesting an automatic ground combination, automatically applying at least one electronically stored ground combination rule to a first set of ground devices comprising a plurality of the first plurality of ground devices and automatically combining at least two of the first set of ground devices into a first combined ground device based at least in part on the applied at least one electronically stored ground combination rule.
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31 Claims
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1. A method of combining ground devices in an electronic wire harness design tool, comprising:
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displaying a plurality of passive ground devices on the wire harness design tool; automatically combining by connecting at least two of the plurality of ground devices into a combined ground device according to at least one electronically stored ground combination rule, wherein the ground combination rule is to combine the passive ground devices having a substantially equivalent property, which includes at least one of the following;
having a same color or made from a same material. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. One or more computer readable storage devices comprising computer executable instructions for performing a method, comprising:
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providing a plurality of passive ground devices on the wire harness design tool; automatically combining through connecting at least two of the plurality of ground devices into a combined ground device according to at least one electronically stored ground combination rule; providing a ground combination rule tool associated with the wire harness design tools; receiving user input to create the at least one ground combination rule using the ground combination rule tool; and receiving user input to edit the at least one ground combination rule using the ground combination rule tool. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method of combining ground devices in an electronic wire harness design tool, comprising:
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displaying a plurality of passive ground devices on the wire harness design tool; automatically combining by connecting at least two of the plurality of ground devices into a combined ground device according to at least one electronically stored ground combination rule; providing a ground combination rule tool associated with the electronic wire harness design tool, which allows a user to create the at least one ground combination rule; and receiving user input to allow the user to edit at least one ground combination rule using the ground combination rule tool. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. One or more computer readable storage devices comprising computer executable instructions for performing a method, comprising:
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providing a plurality of passive ground devices on the wire harness design tool; and automatically combining through connecting at least two of the plurality of ground devices into a combined ground device according to at least one electronically stored ground combination rule, wherein the at least one ground combination rule comprises a rule setting a maximum number of the plurality of ground devices to be combined into a combination ground device. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. One or more computer readable storage devices comprising computer executable instructions for performing a method, comprising:
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providing a plurality of passive ground devices on the wire harness design tool; automatically combining through connecting at least two of the plurality of ground devices into a combined ground device according to at least one electronically stored ground combination rule, wherein the stored ground combination rule includes attributes of the ground devices and attributes of ground lines that terminate at the ground devices.
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Specification