kvid
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3 days ago Hi, I find myself in need of designing a pretty complicated harness (for a small aircraft) so I'm looking around for options and came across Wireviz. I couldn't figure out whether there's a distinction between a wire and a bundle in Wireviz:
In my mind, a harness typically has an acyclical graph structure, with copper wires going between the various nodes (generally leaf nodes, but not necessarily in the case of in-line splices) in the graph. A "bundle" to me denotes an edge in this graph. So, a wire from X1 to X2 will traverse several different bundles of different lengths, bundled together with different sets of wires in any of them, on its way between the end points.
- Your definition of a bundle seems to be equal to how this term is used in WireViz.
- A cable or bundle in WireViz currently consist of one or more wires with a common length.
- Variations of extra wire lengths at both ends is suggested in https://github.com/wireviz/WireViz/issues/268#issuecomment-1024807332
- How to make a wire continue through several bundles is suggested in https://github.com/wireviz/WireViz/issues/270#issuecomment-1029535877
To me, the real utility of defining the harness would be to be able to input the harness physical layout, ie the bundle graph with edge lengths, separately define the electrical connections, i.e. the wires, connecting the nodes, along with their color/gauge, and then have the software calculate where the wire goes and how long the wire needs to be. It looks like this is not the problem Wireviz is attempting to solve?
In WireViz the electrical connections are specified for each connection set - which is one or more connections sharing the same sequence of alternating connectors and cables/bundles, i.e. a botton-up approach connecting each segment instead of the top-down approach in your request to connect leaf nodes.
However, WireViz calculates the sum length of wires with equal properties for the BOM.
lutorm
Hi, I find myself in need of designing a pretty complicated harness (for a small aircraft) so I'm looking around for options and came across Wireviz. I couldn't figure out whether there's a distinction between a wire and a bundle in Wireviz:
In my mind, a harness typically has an acyclical graph structure, with copper wires going between the various nodes (generally leaf nodes, but not necessarily in the case of in-line splices) in the graph. A "bundle" to me denotes an edge in this graph. So, a wire from X1 to X2 will traverse several different bundles of different lengths, bundled together with different sets of wires in any of them, on its way between the end points.
To me, the real utility of defining the harness would be to be able to input the harness physical layout, ie the bundle graph with edge lengths, separately define the electrical connections, i.e. the wires, connecting the nodes, along with their color/gauge, and then have the software calculate where the wire goes and how long the wire needs to be. It looks like this is not the problem Wireviz is attempting to solve?