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Wiring harness design in CATIA V5 - 3D modeling Week 4 Challenge

AAditya Raj3 Mar 2023

Wiring harness design in CATIA V5 - 3D modeling Week 4 Challenge

AIM:- Route the following harness layout in Electrical workbench. Make assumption for harness bundle diameters. Use Following connectors as shown in layout diagram.

Add protective covering on all branches connected to DT06-2S & DT06-4S connectors. Keep end extremity at 30mm (from connectors end)

Download connector 3D data from www.te.com

DT06-4S
DT06-6S
DT06-2S
DT06-08SA

01. CONNECTOR DEFINATIONS IN CATIA V5:-

Create midpoint on the contact face which will be normal to wire bunddle insertion.Craete Axis System with respect to the point which we have created and define the axis direction.

1) Go to electrical part design.

2) Define the connectors by using the CONNECTORS command.

3) Define the CONNECTORS CONNECTION POINT and BUNDLE CONNECTORS POINT to the CONNECTORS.

NOTE:- Same procedure apply for defining the all given connector.

1. c-dt06-08sa:-

2. c-dt06-6s-a:-

3. c-dt06-4s-a:-

4. c-dt06-2s-a:-

02. Create the Electric wire harness context assembly and Geometric bundle as a subassembly containing all the electric parameters:-

CREATING WIRING HARNESS:-

1) Create the assembly of geometrical bundle products in CATIA V5.

2) Open all the required connectors into the geometrical bundle assembly product. Note that all the connectors must be electrically defined, define this Geomteric bundle assembly as electricaly, for that we need to switch to Electric harness assembly workbench.

3) As mentioned in the figure, the connectors are placed al the required positions using the SNAP, SMART MOVE, COORDINATE SYSTEM, and MANIPULATION COMMANDS.

4) Now enter into the WIRING HARNESS ASSEMBLY workbench.

5) Click on MULTI-BRANCHABLE DOCUMENT, give the branch diameter and the bend ratio. Open the route definition and connect the bundle connection points.