In this video, we show the existing and enhanced cable harness design features integrated in Altium Designer. In addition, the advantages over conventional cable design in third-party tools are shown. The features are presented step-by-step in a harness project which in turn is part of a Multiboard project. The schematic wiring document is synchronised with the Multiboard schematic via an Engineering Change Order. Creating a new harness component in an Altium 365 workspace is shown, as well as placement from the library. Finally, we show how to deal with multiple harnesses in a Multiboard project.

The project files being used in the demo are included in your set of Altium Designer’s example projects in the C:\Users\Public\Documents\Altium\AD<version>\Examples\HarnessDemo MB\Harness_Demo_Prj folder. In addition, 2 libraries are being used which can be downloaded here.