Wiring harness design in CATIA V5 - 3D modeling Week 5 & 6 Challenge

Aim: To Route the following harness layout in the Electrical workbench and make assumptions for harness bundle diameters by using the connectors provided.

converting the Connectors of Harness A and B from mechanical to electrical parts and defining it as a connector:

Harness_A connectors:

Harness_B connectors:

Adding the connectors to the connectors catalog:

Drawing the base Sketch for harnessing:

Harness_A:

Harness_B:

Creating a product file and routing both the harnesses:

Harness_A:

Harness_B:

Adding a protective covering to the Harness:

Harnes_A:

Harness_B:

Annotating both the harnesses:

Harness_A:

Harness_B:

Converting the Files to ALLCATParts:

Harness A:

Harness B:

Joining Both the harnesses and combining them:

Harness A & B:

Conclusion:

In the above task given the connectors are routed in two different harnesses and then the two harnesses are joined together in a product file as shown above.

Here Different tasks are performed;

1. First, the connectors are defined and converted into electrical parts.
2. Then a base sketch is drawn for both the harnesses.
3. After that, the connectors are placed according to the base sketch, and routing is done.
4. protective covering is then added to each harness.
5. Then each harness file is converted to an ALLCATPart file.
6. And at last both the harnesses are joined together.

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