Patent ID: 7735044
Filing Date: 2010-06-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: allowing a user to place a first wiring harness design component within a wiring harness topology in a wiring harness design workspace in an electronic wiring harness design tool on a computer; allowing the user to place a first plurality of ground devices within the first wiring harness design component placed in the wiring harness topology; allowing the user to request an automatic ground combination; and in response to the user requesting an automatic ground combination, automatically applying at least one electronically stored ground combination rule to a first set of ground devices comprising a plurality of the first plurality of ground devices and automatically combining at least two of the first set of ground devices into a first combined ground device based at least in part on the applied at least one electronically stored ground combination rule; wherein each of the at least two of the first set of ground devices has a substantially equivalent property.