Wiring Harness Software – Reinvented

RapidHarness is a full lifecycle CAD solution built for designing production-ready wire harness schematics. Whether you’re working on quick test articles or aerospace grade drawings, RapidHarness draws your schematics for you and generates the documents your manufacturing floor needs.

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Instant, Automatic Drawing

RapidHarness was designed from the beginning to automatically draw your schematics for you in real-time. Top-level systems, top-level harnesses, and harness wiring tables are all drawn for you, so you can focus on your electrical design.

Focus on the core of your electrical design, not the artwork
Save time designing, reviewing, and updating your wiring diagrams
Develop consistent drawings across engineering and manufacturing teams
Generate to-scale 1:1 formboards ready for production
Finish your drawings with shapes, arrows, text, and images, arranged front to back
Work in imperial or metric, with matching rulers and snap grids

Auto-Generated Manufacturing Documents

RapidHarness drawings can be taken straight to the manufacturing floor. Our software automatically generates all of the outputs you need in PDF and Excel format, one drawing or many at once, or you can print them directly.

Top Level Drawing - the visual layout of your schematic, which can be drawn to-scale
Bill of Materials (BOM) - a complete listing of all the parts needed to build your wire harness
Wiring Tables and Connection Tables - every wire, cable, and connection in your drawing
Cut Lists - all of the wire and cable cut lengths
Tools - the crimp tools, equipment, and fixtures each harness needs
Notes and Revisions - build callouts and revision history, on the drawing or as their own tables
Labels - a listing of all bundle labels to be printed
Netlists - system-level output showing electrical nets as propagated through various harnesses, devices, and systems
Drawing and table templates with your company's logo, title block, and page sizes

Integrated Library of Parts

RapidHarness is connected to a library of 95+ million parts, which means you never need to start your designs from scratch! Find the part you need, specify just the attributes you want, and start designing now.

Search millions of existing parts and add them to your library in one step
Utilize generic parts to start designing now, and pick an exact part later in the design process
Create new parts, clone and modify existing parts, share and reuse with your team
Design Configurations attach related parts (contacts, seals, backshells, tools) so they are added automatically when a connector or terminal is placed
Library tools find where a design is used, unused designs, duplicates, and missing designs

Complete Harness Modeling

Model your harness the way it is built. Every part you place, from contacts and seals to backshells and coverings, is carried through your drawing, tables, and BOM.

Connectors with contacts, wire seals, sealing plugs, backshells, boots, and named cavities
Pigtail connectors with pre-wired leads, fully carried through all outputs
Cables with shields, drain wires, and twisted pairs; multi-wire twist management
Splices with cavities, ferrules, ring, spade, and quick-connect terminals, diodes, and resistors
Bundle coverings such as sleeving, braid, and tape
AWG or mm² wire sizes, including custom sizes

Connector
Contact
Wire Seal
Backshell
Boot
Transition Boot
Wire
Cable
Twisted Wires
Covering
Heat Shrink
Splice
Ferrule
Ring Terminal
Spade Terminal
Quick-Connect Terminal
Diode
Resistor

Leverage Harness Power Tools

Our team has built an assortment of tools to help you accelerate your harness design process.

Rule Checker catches common mistakes and jumps straight to the offending item on your drawing
Bundle inspection shows exactly which wires and cables run through each section of your harness
Configurable bundle routing and layout
Twist and untwist wires, or swap a wire's part, right from the connection editor
Copy and paste whole sections of a harness, wires included
Remap connections when designs are changed
Switch terminal types on the fly
Edit, override, and sort your BOM

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Accurate Wire Lengths

RapidHarness builds every connection length from your harness drawing and the parts on each end, so your cut lists and BOM match what goes on the formboard.

Connection lengths include connector insertion depth and backshell entry length
Strip lengths for contacts, ferrules, terminals, and splices carried into your wiring tables and cut lists
Review and override every input in one place, on one connection or many at once
Set an extra length per connection and a default loopback length for the whole drawing
Totals flow straight into your BOM and manufacturing documents

Design at the System Level

System level design allows you to decompose complex systems into fully reusable designs. By breaking apart your wiring diagrams into smaller components, RapidHarness enables you to design your schematics from a new perspective.

Save, version, and re-use all designs independently
Reduce and encapsulate complexity using hierarchical systems of devices and harnesses
Trace signal propagation through networks of harnesses, systems, and subsystems
Build & debug your schematics to match your products' assembly throughout different configurations (eg: engineering, build-up, test, integration, final-assembly)
Aggregate the BOM across an entire system, custom parts included
Import a device's pin list from an ICD spreadsheet

Create a system composed of devices and harnesses

Reuse and add multiple instances of this system within other systems

Built For Teams

RapidHarness is designed to work for people working independently or large groups collaborating together. Share your Library of designs within your organization to streamline your workflow.

View and review designs developed by anyone in your team
Use team-members designs in your work, or revise them further
Status tags show who is editing what at a glance
Organize your projects with folders
Search instantly to find any design in your library
Team administrators can version a drawing left open by a teammate who is away

Integrated Version Control

RapidHarness comes with a fully integrated version control system. With the click of a button, you can create a new version of a design, create an immutable version of your design, and clone an existing design.

Create designs in your own private sandbox, prior to sharing any changes
Track all design changes with a fully integrated version history
View read only copies of all historical designs
Update subdesigns as necessary when new versions are created
Restore deleted designs from the Recycle Bin

Secure Cloud Platform

RapidHarness is a Windows desktop app with your designs stored securely in the cloud, so your whole team works from the same library on any machine.

Reach your designs from any machine you sign in on
Encrypted in transit and at rest, on Microsoft Azure in United States data centers
You own your content, and it is never made public
Backups are included
Automatic updates deliver new features as soon as they are released