About Synchronization

Synchronize Options

The Synchronize dialog box provides a number of options you need to select. During the synchronization step, the selected options only will be performed. This optimizes the amount of time taken to synchronize.

A HTML report will be generated accordingly and will only show the selected options. For more information about the HTML report, see About the HTML Report.

This dialog box lets you define what you want to synchronize:

• Components
• Actions
• Options

Components

Components allows you to select which components you want to update:

• Devices
• Segments
• Supports
• Protective coverings
• Conductors
• Mechanical parts linked to the geometry . You can add, remove and replace these parts.

  Tip: To synchronize the dashed green line, select Mechanical Part under Components and Attributes under Actions. Moreover, you can use your own execution Business Rules to customize the Synchronization behavior on these components. For more information, please refer to: Using Business Rule Integration in the Extract and Synchronize commands.

You can select as many components as needed at the same time.

Actions

Actions allows you to customize the actions during the synchronization step:

• : Removes components from the flattened view that were deleted in the 3D geometry
• : Adds components that were added to the 3D harness and are missing in the flattened view
• : Replaces the reference of components changed in the 3D geometry (this option can only be used with the Supports or Devices options activated.)
• : Updates the segment structure (this option can only be used with the Segments option activated).

  This option allows you to:

  
  
  • Add a branch or a branch point,
  • Add or remove intermediate segments
  • Replace one or more segments with one or more different segments.

  Important: If you transfer a branch to another electrical branch geometry, it will remain under the original electrical branch geometry in the flattened view when you synchronize.

• : Updates attributes This option allows you to:
  
  • Synchronize the position of protective coverings. To do so, select Protective coverings under Components.
  • Synchronize the position of supports. To do so, select Segments and Supports under Components.
  • Synchronize relationships (manually made using the Adjust command in Electrical 3D Installation) between the following components: (1) tape and segments or other protective coverings (2) adaptive supports and retainers, and segments or protective coverings. To do so, select Protective Coverings or Supports under Components as appropriate.
  • Update the length of segments created along external curves.

• : Updates knowledge parameters. This option allows you to synchronize the knowledge parameters added to the protective coverings and segments. They must be located under a parameter set named To be synchronized, under the protective covering or segment node.

  This set needs to be created in the Knowledge Advisor workbench: To do so:

  
  
  • Click Add a set of Parameters .
  • Change the name in the Properties dialog box to: To be synchronized.
  • Place your parameters in this set by drag & drop.

  Note:
  

  • The synchronization does not manage the Remove of the knowledge para meters from flatten date whose corresponding parameter does not exist in the electrical geometry data.
  • In the Specification Tree, only the protection knowledge parameters are visible whereas both protection and segment parameters can be found in the Parameters Explorer.

Note:

• The changes to the segment shape are not updated on synchronization.
• On synchronizing a scaled branch or segment in the 3D flatten model, only the true length is synchronized, that is, the geometrical length is not changed. The position of the protective covering and support is updated to keep the same relative position.

Important: During the synchronization process, the orientation angle between the single insert connector and the backshell is synchronized with the 3D geometry model. The synchronization of the orientation angle is done only if Devices and Attributes are selected in the Synchronize dialog box. Synchronization of orientation can be done even if the orientation constraint is not defined while defining the backshell connection point.

If a design table has been used to build the protective covering, its Configuration parameter is synchronized at the same time.

Previously this action was performed when Attributes was selected.

• Update profiles

  This option allows you to synchronize the multi-profile branch structure and associated attributes. To do so, select Segments under Components and Attributes under Actions.

  You must also select Any Profile under Segment Profile (Tools > Options > Equipment > Electrical Discipline > Electrical Assembly Design >Electrical Geometry Management).

  
  
  

You can select as many actions as needed.

Options

Options lets you select the operations to run during synchronization:

• Simulate: generates a report without applying changes to the flattened document
• HTML Report: generates the report in the predefined folder specified in the Options dialog box
• Flatten: Automatically flattens any added components
• Synchronize Flag: Resets the synchronization history of all components: the synchronize property of all components is set to False, so that only newly changed components will be set to True after the synchronization operation.