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

WIRING HARNESS ASSEMBLY.

- Sometimes called a cable or wiring loom, a harness assembly arranges groups of wires and/or cables into a single unit for protection and organization with various different terminals and connectors attached, that are formed in shape or layout that routes the connectors to the various connection points of an assembly.

WIRING HARNESS ROUTING.

- A wiring harness routing structure includes a wiring harness routing member configured to be attached to a vehicle body and a protector that accommodates and holds a wiring harness. The protector has a recess shape in which the protector is opened in one direction in a sectional view.

- A wire harness is a specially-designed bundling system used to keep numerous wires or cables organized. Rather than manually routing and connecting every individual strand, wires are cut to length, bundled and clamped to terminal or connector housings to form a single piece.

THIS IS 2D REPRESENTATION GIVEN OF WIRING HARNESS ROUTING :

- IN THE DIAGRAM WE CAN SEE ONE MAIN BRANCH FROM DT06-6S CONNECTOR TO DT05-08SA.

- FROM THERE ARE TWO SUB BRANCH AND THREE BRANCH POINTS.

- AND WE CAN SEE DIMENSIONS ARE ALSO GIVEN WHICHS PROVIDES DISTANCE BETWEEN EACH CONNECTORS.

- SO FIRST TASK IS TO CHECK ALL THE CONNECTORS ARE ELECTRICALLY DEFINED OR NOT , SO I DOWNLOAD ALL THE GIVEN CONNECTORS AND DEFINED THEM ELECTRICALLY ALSO DEFINED CONNCETOR

CONNECTION POINT & BUNDLE ENTRY POINT.

- AFTER THAT CREATE A ASSEMBLY FILE WHICH WILL THE MAIN PART ASSEMBLY UNDER THAT WE NEED CREATE ANOTHER ASSEM. WHICH WILL GEOMETRICAL BUNDLE.

- DEFINE THIS ASSEMBLY AS ELECTRICAL ASSEMBLY.

- NOW WE HAVE TO PLACE ALL THE CONNECTORS IN GIVEN POSITIONS SO IT WILL BE NOT IN AN OPEN SPACE TO PLACE IT ACCURATELY.

- SO FOR THAT I CREATED A SERPARATE PART FILE AND CREATE REFERANCE LINES & POINTS THERE WITH THE GIVEN DIMENSIONS.

- AS YOU CAN SEE IN ABOVE IMAGE I JUST CREATED A SIMPLE SKETCH SAME AS THE GIVEN DIAGRAM.

- AND THEN PLACED ALL THE CONNECTOR USING ASSEMBLY MOVING COMMANDS.

- AS SEEN IN THE ABOVE IMAGE , NOW WE START CREATING BUNDLES.

- FIRST DEFINE THE IT AS A GEOMETRICAL BUNDLE AND THEN ADD MULTI BRANCH DOCUMENTS.

- THAN I CREATED BUNDLE FROM DT06-08SA TO DT06-6S WHICH WILL BE OUR MAIN BRANCH.

- AFTER THAT I CREATED BRANCH POINT FROM DT06-08SA AT 100 MM AND FROM THAT BRANCH POINT A SECOND BRANCH POINT AT 150 MM (ANGULAR)

- SIMILAR CREATED BUNDLE FROM THERE , AND AFTER THAT THIRD BRANCH POINT FROM DT06-6S AT 250 MM.

- FROM THAT POINT TWO BUNDLE TO THE CONNECTORS.

- WITH THIS MY WIRING HARNESS ROUTING IS READY.

- WE NEED TO PROVIDE PROTECTION COVERING TO THE HARNESS.

- WE HAVE SAVED COT TUBES EARLIER , SO FROM THAT CATALOGUE I PROVIDED COT TUBES TO THE HARNESS.

- THERE WAS CONDITON GIVEN FOR END EXTREMITY OF 30 MM.