Project 1

ROUTING THE WIRING HARNESS OF ENGINE AND PREPARE FLATTEN VIEW DRAWING IN CATIA V5

 

AIM- To route the wiring harness on given Engine and flatten view drawing in CATIA V5.

OBJECTIVE- The objective of the project is to route the wiring harness on given Bugatti V16 Engine and prepare flatten view drawing in CATIA V5. All types of packaging rules have to be considered while routing the harness. Also, Industry best practices should be demonstrated in design. All the necessary details like clearance, clipping/clamping selection, harness fixing requirements, harness continuity should be provided in order to design wiring harness.

Fig: Bugatti V16 Engine

WIRING HARNESS ROUTING OF ENGINE:

• Engine is taken to route the wiring harness. The engine modeller will provide the dummy connectors at all the locations.
• First check for all the connector and sensor locations. The present engine has 8 connector location on each side and 2 sensors at each side.
• The clips, clamps and channels can be used to route the harness with optimal solution.
• Also, there are 4 cam-shaft sensors, so there is total 20 sensors that we have to connected electrically.
• Generally, 4-pole connectors are used for fuel injectors of the engine.
• The engine will also have an interconnection connector which will connect the engine to other parts of the vehicle. We will be using a 12-pole electrical connector with a mounting clip feature as an interconnection connector.
• The plastic guiding channel used in this harness should be made of a material that can withstand at least 150 degrees Celsius.
• The bend ratio for the all-bundle segments should be 1.4

 

ASSUMPTION:

1. Provide clips/clamps as per requirement.
2. Make sure that there is no any fouling case while designing the wire harness. Additional clips/clamps may be used to avoid fouling case.
3. Give additional slack if needed. 5-10% slack is sufficient.
4. Avoid routing over bolt and bolted joints to avoid harness puncture.
5. Avoid routing on sharp edges or else provide protection over the harness.
6. Follow the clearance distance and keep away the harness from heat generation components.
7. Protection should be provided as needed according to surrounding temperature.
8. Avoid direct support for harness on fuel lines routed in the engine.
9. Use plastic guiding channels if needed.
10. Branch length should be greater than 50mm.
11. Minimum distance between two branch points should be at least 50mm.
12. Minimum distance between clip and branch point should be at least 25mm.
13. Avoid too many sheets metal brackets on the engine. Try to use available threaded bosses on the engine or demand for it.
14. The wiring harness should be easy to assemble and easy to access.
15. While using dummy connectors, ensure that whatever positions you are defining that are practical. Bundle diameters and other placements can be defined properly for the wire harness routing.
16. If the packaging area is too tight and there are many packaging constraints then we can think of creating harness channel which can be used to route and protect the wire harness effectively.

STEP 1: CREATING CONTEXT ASSEMBLY

• A Context Assembly for Engine Harness has created which will work as the main assembly as shown in above figure.
• A Context Assembly will contain Engine Assembly data for Engine V16 and Engine Harness Geometrical Bundle Assembly.
• If any sheet metal bracket will require then they are added in the context assembly.

 

STEP 2: TO DEFINE 4-POLE CONNECTOR ELECTRICALLY.

Here, according to the requirement we are using 'C-1563689' which is a 4-pole connector. This CAD data is downloaded from te.com. Now, to define a connector electrically we should define the geometrical parameters like bundle connection point in Electrical Part Design workbench for the downloaded connector.

Above figure shows the bundle connection point for the 4-pole connector 'C-1563689-4P'

STEP 3: ADDING CONNECTORS TO THE ALL 16 FUEL INJECTOR SENSORS AND 4 CAM-SHAFT SENSORS

In this step, we are placing connectors to fuel injector sensors and cam-shaft sensors. So, we will require total 20 connectors which have to be added in the Engine Harness Geometrical Bundle Assembly. We have to use manipulation tools along with compass, snap and smart move features to locate all the 20 connectors at their desired locations.

STEP 4: ADDING SHEET METAL BRACKET

Now, we have to add sheet metal bracket in order to provide mounting for the interconnection connector. Also, we have to make sure that the bracket is placed inside the context assembly and outside of engine and geometrical bundle assembly. The bracket should be mounted on the existing bolt as shown below. This bracket should have locked system in clockwise direction so that it can't be move freely. Herein below figure, rib is performing the locking feature for the bracket. All the design ideas should be discussed with the engine designing team so that there won't be any disturbance for the smooth working of engine in real world application.

STEP 5: MOUNTING THE INTERCONNECTION CONNECTOR ON THE SHEET METAL BRACKET AND MOUNTING THE P-CLAMPS FOR WIRE HARNESS

Here, a 12-pole connector "C-776438-4" and mounting cavity "C-1924487-2" is together used as interconnection connector. The required cad data is downloaded from te.com. First, we have to define 12 pole connector and mounting cavity electrically as below. 

Fig: 12 pole connector "C-776438-4"

Fig: Mounting cavity "C-1924487-2"

Now, we have to mount that electrically connected interconnection connector and cavity on sheet metal bracket as shown in above figure.

We have to mount 3 P-clamps also on the existing bolts of the engine so before that we have to define P-clamp electrically with geometrical parameters, entry and exit point on both left and right side of the P-clamp as shown in below figure.

Here, we have mounted 3 P-clamps on the existing bolts of the engine for the wire harness routing as shown in above figure.

In above figure, we have mounted fur tree clip also for the smooth path to wiring harness routing.

STEP 6: MOUNTING OF A PLASTIC GUIDING CHANNEL

We have to add now plastic guiding channel because Bugatti V16 engine has 8 injectors on right side and 8 injectors on left side which are very close to each other. Hence plastic guiding channel is best option for proper and easy routing of the wiring harness. It will reduce the complex wiring harness routing. We will require two different guiding channels for both right and left side of the engine. Now, before placing guiding channel, we have to define geometrical parameters of guiding channel as below.

In above figure, we have created point 1 at entry face and another point at endpoint at 550mm distance.

Now, join that both points and create a line which will be later used for routing the wire harness bundle inside the guiding channel.

Above figure shows for the left side guiding channel and same process will be repeated for the right-side channel.

 

After electrically define of guiding channel, we have located guiding channel at desired place as shown in above figure.

Here, we have used different commands like manipulation, snap, smart move, compass etc. for placing of guiding channel.

Now at this stage, we have just located bottom of the guiding channel.

In above figure, whole assembly is ready for the routing.

All 20 connectors, 3 P-clamps, 1 Interconnection connector, 2 fur tree clips and 2 plastic guiding channels are mounted.

STEP 7: BUNDLE ROUTING FROM INTERCONNECTION CONNECTOR TO 3 P-CLAMPS

Here, we are routing the bundle segment from interconnection connector to 3 P-clamps. The diameter for this routing path is 15mm and bend radius ratio is assumed to be 1.4.

 

 

STEP 8: ADDING BRANCH POINTS TO 4 CAM-SHAFT SENSORS

Adding branch point to the bundle segment at distance of 55mm from P-clamp as shown in below figure.

In above figure, two branches of 5mm are added from the created branch point to cam-shaft sensors.

 

STEP 9: ROUTING TO THE PLASTIC GUIDING CHANNEL AND ADDING BRANCH POINTS TO BUNDLE SEGMENT INSIDE THE GUIDING CHANNEL

In above figure, we can see that the bundle segment inside the guiding channel is created by using pre-made sketch as routing definition. The bundle diameter is assumed to be 15mm on left side and 10mm on right side

Here, from the entry side of the guiding channel, we have created first branch point at 120mm and then subsequently created six branch points at 65mm as shown in below figure.

Similarly, we have done routing for the left side guiding channel also as shown in above figure.

STEP 11: ADDING PROTECTIVE COVERINGS ON TOP SHELL TO HARNESS BUNDLE

 

STEP 12: CHECKING BUNDLE CONTINUITY

In this step, first we have to make sure that multi-branchable is selected then we have to go in Edit>Search>Advanced>Workbench-Electrical>Type-Bundle Segment>Attribute-Fully Connected

By selecting 'True' option will show all the connected bundle segments while selecting 'False' option will show all the non-connected bundle segments.

Here, we have selected for the 'True' option and searched for results. All the bundle segments are highlighted found showing that all the bundle segments are electrically connected as shown in below figure.

Here, we have selected for the 'True' option and searched for results. All the bundle segments are highlighted found showing that all the bundle segments are not electrically connected as shown in below figure.

 

STEP 13: CREATING FLATTEN VIEW OF THE ENGINE HARNESS GEOMETRICAL BUNDLE ASSEMBLY

In this step, for creating flatten view we have to work in Electrical Harness Flattening workbench of Catia V5. We should also make sure that the flattening file is saved in the same folder where other files of harness assembly are saved.

Before creating flatten view, first we have to define flattening parameters. Make sure that selecting ''Double line' for bundle segment and 'Double' line for protective covering.

We have extracted the bundle assembly into Engine Harness Flattening Product file and then flattened the file along face of interconnection connector as shown in above figure.

At this stage, for clarity, we have been hidden the flattening diagram of the plastic guiding channels from the drawing view.

We have created a flatten view as shown in above figure.

Here, we have used different features like bend, rotate, roll to streamline the harness for better representation.

STEP 14: CREATING A FLATTEN VIEW DRAWING FOR THE WIRING HARNESS ASSEMBLY

 

In above figure, we are creating new drawing file and defined all the necessary drawing parameters. We have to insert the front view of the Engine Harness Flattening Product file into the Drawing file.

We have to define drawing properties as shown in above figure. It should be noted that in 'Dress up' settings 3D wireframe is always ON. If this setting is not selected then the bundle segments won't be visible on drawing view.

Above figure shows, the final Drawing view of the Engine Harness Flatten view.

Conclusion:

In this way, we have routed wiring harness for the Bugatti V16 Engine. Also, prepared flatten view drawing with proper sheet in CATIA V5.