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

  WIRING HARNESS DESIGN IN CATIA V5 - 3D MODELING WEEK 5 & 6 CHALLENGE

AIM-  

Route two electrical harnesses as per the given layout and interconnect them as a single harness assembly and then check for bundle continuity, bundle warnings, and then give annotations to the final harness assembly.

OBJECTIVE-  

The objective of this project is to first route the two Harness A and Harness B as per the given harness layout.

• First we have defined the all connectors to electrically

HARNESS B

HARNESS A

HARNESS A & B ASSEMBLY

• In this step, we have to interconnect both Harness A & Harness B.
• For that, we have to create new product file and can give name as Assembly.
• Then, copy both harnesses and paste it in newly created product file or both harnesses in mechanical assembly design .
• We have to go in Electrical Assembly Design to connect both the harnesses electrically. So for that, select the option 'connect electrical devices' and both the harnesses will get connected electrically as below.

WARNING HARNESS BUNDLE

• In this step, we will be checking the bundle warning in Harness A & B.
• Geometrical bundle warnings are shown for bend radius, bundle diameter and vector position.
• So if there is any incorrect value or input regarding these factors then yellow colored flash wiil be appear in the model tree structure next to the branchable with problems.

3D ANNOTATIONS:

• In this step, we have to add annotations for all the connectors in mechanical assembly design workbench.
• Annotations are used for giving connector name, functions etc.
• For this, we have to select plane where annotation will be placed. In below image, we have selected front plane.

GENERATE CAT PART FROM PRODUCT

• Now, in this step we have to convert final harness assembly file into IGS format. So for that we need to follow below steps.
• Mechanical Assembly Design workbench>Tools>Generate CAT Part from product.
• Once the CAT part is created, the whole product file is converted into a single part.
• Now, whole file is converted into the IGS format and we can see all the harness assembly is looking in grey color.
• If we need to change color as before in green, we can go back and give green color to each bundle segment.