Defining Harness Design Preferences for Altium Designer

The page in the Harness Design category of the Preferences dialog provides access to preferences relating to features and functionality of Harness Design.

Defaults

The Harness Design - Defaults page of the Preferences dialog provides numerous controls relating to the default settings within the harness design space.

The Harness Design – Defaults page of the Preferences dialog

Default Primitives

• Primitives - use this field to change the units.
• Primitive List - a list of primitives that can be used in the harness design editor (filtered in accordance with the chosen entry for the Primitives field above). Click on the listed Primitives to change the available default values as described.

To view and edit the settings and options for each primitive, click on the desired entry in the Primitive List. Information for each primitive can be found at the following links:

• Bundle
• Cable
• Component
• Covering
• Layout Connection Point
• Layout Label
• No Connect
• Pin
• Shield
• Splice
• Twist
• Wire