Wiring harness design in CATIA V5 - 3D modeling Week 2 Challenge

ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM(EDS):

EDS basicaly deals with physical and logical architecture,schematic development,power distribution,wiring harness design,wiring harness component design of given electrical system.

E & E ARCHITECTURE:

It is high level logical connectivity diagram represents the number of systems,subsystem and logical connectivity between them. it is also extended to show CAN(CONTROL AREA NETWORK) between different electronic controllers.

EDS:(ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM)

IT CONSIST OF 4 COMPONENTS

1. E&E ARCHITECTURE

2. LOGICAL SCHEMATIC

3. SCHEMATIC DEVELOPMENT

4. WH ROUTING AND PACKING

The term wiring harness refers to assembly of wires,connectors,terminals,protection covering,insulations,clips and clamps,fuse and relay boxes,retention devices,guiding channels,elctronic components

CONNECTORS:

Connectors are plastic molded housing with locking and retention features.

first import the file CAD file in catia-V5

then start with part design and select point option to create midpoint

then create axis on the midpoint( Y axis should be facing the front face of connector

X axis should be pointing in the direction of lock

Z axis should be pointing across the connector from left to right)

then select electrical part design

define the part as a connector by selecting it

also provide number of terminals

define bundle connection point

define connector connection point

in TYCO 174357-2

in this follow same step till connector connection point

then create cavity connection point

in clip also after defining connector connection point

then cavity connection point

now we after defining both part as electrical part

in ASSEMBLY

import both the part to new file or tab

now select connect electrical devices and select both connector and clip and click ok