Synchronizing the Environment

This task shows you how to automatically synchronize your 3D flattened geometry at any time during your session. You can add missing components or remove additional components, as well as synchronize the bundle segment structure.
Make sure you have correctly specified the synchronization report repository path.

The document containing the flattened harness is open from the previous task.
Open the initial document as well.

1. In the initial document, select a bundle segment and modify its length, diameter, bend radius, instance name or color.

2. Save your document.

3. Switch back to the flattened harness.

4. Click Synchronize .

   	If there is no selection in the specification tree, the first electrical bundle modified will be synchronized. But, if more than one electrical bundle has been modified, you must select a bundle otherwise a warning will be displayed. If there are no electrical bundles, all the geometrical bundles will be selected and updated. You can do a multi-selection (devices, supports, etc. at the same time).
   The Synchronize dialog box pops up: During the synchronization step, only the selected options will be performed. This optimizes the amount of time taken to synchronize. A html report will be generated accordingly and will show only the selected options.
   This dialog box lets you define what you want to synchronize:
   Components
   Components allows you to choose which components you want to update: Devices Bundle segments Supports Wires. You can select at the same time as many components as needed.
   Actions
   Actions allows you to customize the actions during the synchronization step: Remove components from the flattened view that were deleted in the 3D harness Add components that were added to the 3D harness and are missing in the flattened view Replace the reference of components changed in the 3D harness  (this option can only be used with the Supports or Devices options activated.) Update the bundle segment structure (this option can only be used with the Bundle Segments option activated.) This options allows you to: add or remove intermediate bundle segments replace one or more bundle segments with one or more different bundle segments. Update attributes. To synchronize the position of supports, you must select Bundle Segments instead of Supports. You can select as many actions as needed.
   Options
   Options: 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 Automatic flatten any added components Reset the synchronization history of all components: the synchronize property of all components will be set to False, so that only newly changed components will be set to True after the synchronization operation. You can use Edit/Search to retrieve quickly all components.

5. Click OK to validate.

   A status bar appears showing the synchronization progress: Here are the different steps that can be seen through the synchronization process according to the options previously selected: Analyze step is processing Replaced components synchronization is processing Removed components synchronization is processing Bundle segment structure synchronization is processing Added components synchronization is processing Attributes synchronization is processing Generating Html report An HTML file is generated in the synchronization report repository if Html report is checked. For more information about the html report, see Generating the HTML Report during the Synchronization.

   The extracted document is updated if Simulate  is not checked: The attributes that have been modified will show the Synchronize property set to True. Once the attributes have been reset, the Synchronize property will turn back to False. Thus you can visualize what electrical attributes have been modified in the initial model.