How to draw wire studs?

[0x0fe]

I am struggling to reproduce something like this, no problem with the conenctors, however i am really not sure how to generate the two wire studs (red and green) i tried to add two ferrules but i always get errors since the synthax of using ferrules is unclear.

[0x0fe]

So this is the best i can do, i wish we could make X3 view less anbiguous, for example if it could be a little higher the wiers bend would be more clear.

connectors:
  X1:
    type: VH3.96
    subtype: female
    pinlabels: [12V, R1CO, R2CO, R1NO, R2NO, GND]
    image:
      src: VHR-6N.png
      height: 70  
      caption: 

  X2: 
    type: TOYOTA
    subtype: female
    pinlabels: [R2CO, GND, R1CO, W4, R1NO, W6, R2NO]
    image:
      src: toyota7p_f.png
      height: 70  
      caption: 
  X3:
    type: TOYOTA
    subtype: male
    pinlabels: [R2CO, GND, R1CO, W4, R1NO, W6, R2NO]
    image:
      src: toyota7p_m.png
      height: 70  
      caption: 

cables:
  W1: 
    gauge: 20 awg
    length: 0.1
    colors: [GN, VT, BN, VT, RD]
    category: bundle
  W2: 
    gauge: 20 awg
    length: 0.1
    colors: [VT, RD, GN, BK, BN, OG, VT]
    category: bundle
  W3: 
    gauge: 20 awg
    length: 0.1
    colors: [RD, GN]
    category: bundle

connections:
  -
    - X1: [2-6]
    - W1: [1,2,3,4,5]
    - X3: [3,1,5,7,2]
  -  
    - X2: [1-7]
    - W2: [1-7]
    - X3: [1-7]
  -
    - X1: [1-2]
    - W3: [1-2]

[kvid]

@0x0fe wrote:

I am struggling to reproduce something like this, no problem with the conenctors, however i am really not sure how to generate the two wire studs (red and green) i tried to add two ferrules but i always get errors since the synthax of using ferrules is unclear.

Please help us understand what parts (of docs/examples/tutorial) are unclear, so we can try improving them. I assume you want two equal ferrules in your use case. Then you only need to define it once, e.g. like this:

connectors:
  F1:
    style: simple  # Single-pin connector with simplified rendering
    type: Ferrule  # Type of connector
    color: OG  # Optional color
  # together with the other connectors

Then you add F1. to your last connection set where F1 is the designator of the ferrule definition in connectors and the trailing dot indicates you want separate anonymous instances created for each wire using F1 as a template, like this:

connections:
  -  # 1st connection set
  -  # 2nd connection set
  -
    - X1: [1-2]
    - W3: [1-2]
    - F1.

In rare cases you might want to specify designators to each ferrule instance, and then you can replace the simple F1. syntax with [F1.F11, F1.F12] to use F1 as a template for both F11 and F12. These latter designators are not shown in the diagram unless you also add show_name: true to the F1 definition because it is default false for simple connectors.

[kvid]

@0x0fe wrote:

So this is the best i can do, i wish we could make X3 view less anbiguous, for example if it could be a little higher the wiers bend would be more clear.

I can see the wire splines between W1 and X3 are a bit hard to separate. This layout is made by the Graphwiz back-end that probably optimize on shortest total spline lengths, and places X3 close to W2 because there are more splines between W2 and X3 than between W1 and X3. There are a couple of things you might try:

• Increase the global horizontal spacing to make more space for the splines.
• Add an invisible edge/spline between W3 and X3 to encourage Graphviz to place X3 closer to W3.

This is a combination of the two techniques, and you can try different ranksep and weight values to suit your needs:

tweak:
  override:
    graph:
      ranksep: '3'  # Global horizontal spacing (default 2)
  append: |
    "W3" -- "X3" [style=invis weight=2]  // Invisible edge to bring X3 closer to W3