Altium Schematics #04: Using signal harness in hierarchical design

[@jayman6555]

Woooooooow this is so great pls don't stop the goooood deed, some one out there is so thankful of ur lecture I would say

[@유정의-p3w]

Been using Orcad, but recently been ordered to use Altium, Thanks your lecture are quite useful tips sir!

[@kwekker]

you can delete individual bus segments with the break wire tool. I personally set it to shift+B in my Altium. You can set it by holding control and then pressing "break wire" in the edit menu at the top of the screen

[@alexbrno]

Dober dan, thank you very much!

[@pfabri]

To remove the bus segment-by-segment: _Edit-->Break Wire_ or use the shortcut: _EW_

[@dmitry.shpakov]

Thank you! That helped me.

[@sharkdavid]

Very nice, thank you!

[@stevemohammadi4126]

thank you

[@alejandrocalero6398]

Can we use the signal harnessed as an input for a repeated block?

[@andrewwhite1793]

Can harnesses have end points that only break-out some of the connections but not all? Is a bus better for this?

[@elektronika-fe1325]

I don't think so. However, you can freely rearrange the order of harness connectors to make the connection more tidy. A bus would be better, but to be able to use a bus in hierarchical design, you have to keep a strict net naming with successive numbering at the end.

[@blazetheblackmagnet6573]

Try copying a set of net names to the clipboard and then ctrl+shift+v and select Harness connector and port. shazzamm you just created all the entry names and the entire harness.

[@BS-my2ky]

Thank you! What is the different between signal harness and a bus?

[@elektronika-fe1325]

If you are a programmer is like the difference between structure and array in c.

[@andrewwhite1793]

Your busses do not conform to the "The individual nets must be named using the standard naming pattern , , for example Address0, Address1, ..., Address n." (Altium Documentation) Does this get you lots of warnings?

[@elektronika-fe1325]

If you dont use the standard naming pattern as in this case, the busses loose some of the functionality and act mostly just as graphical representations of which nets belong together. IN old times this perfectly made sense, but now it is treated more as a misuse of busses.