Challenge

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

DDazzle Salunke25 Apr 2023

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

Aim: In the Wiring Harness Design challenge using CATIA V5, you will be tasked with designing and modelling two electrical harnesses according to a given layout. You will need to ensure that both harnesses are correctly routed and interconnected to form a single harness assembly. To ensure that the final assembly is of high quality, you will need to check for bundle continuity and any warnings related to the bundle. Finally, you will need to provide annotations for the completed harness assembly. This challenge will test your ability to use CATIA V5 software to create accurate and detailed models of complex mechanical systems.

Objective:

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

Figure 1: Shows the layout of two Harness A and Harness B

The electrical connectors are represented by numbers in the above figure. There are 8 different types of connectors at 10 different locations.

2. Bundle continuity has to be checked for the two created harnesses.

3. After the two Harnesses are created, the next objective is to have them interconnected electrically.

4. Check for bundle warnings in Harness A and Harness B.

5. Add annotations to all the connectors in Harness A and Harness B.

Content:

The following steps are to be done to complete this project.

Step-1:

Define all the electrical connectors geometrically and electrically so that they can be used in the wiring harness.

HARNESS A

After all the connectors are defined, the workbench was switched to Electrical Harness Assembly where Geometrical Bundle was activated. All the connectors were routed using the Multi-Branchable Document command.