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

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

Routing the following harness layout in Electrical workbench. Using the connectors provided.

IN THIS CHALLENGE AND REPORT:

• ELECTRICAL DEFINITIONN AND CATALOGUE CREATION.
• BUNDLE CONTINUITY AND ANNOTATION CREATION.
• THE INTERCONNECTION FOR HARNESS A AND B.
• BUNDLE WARNING AND GENERATION OF CATpart AND CONVERSION TO Iges FILE.

ELECTRICAL DEFINITIONN AND CATALOGUE CREATION:

• All connectors are defined as electrical parts before adding in the product file using Electrical part workbench.
• the geometrical supports like points and axis systems are created in the mechanical part workbench.

• Electrically defined connectors are saved in the Specific Catalogue for assembly and reusage.

BUNDLE CONTINUITY AND ANNOTATION CREATION:

• Create a Product file then, add the Connectors in to the product from the Catalogue, based on requirement.
• Connectors are positioned at the exact location in Mechanical Assembly using the move toolbar commands like manipulation,tranformation,rotation and compass.
• Define the Product into Electrical Product, using the Geometrical Bundle command in Electrical Harness Assembly workbench.
• now, use Multi Branchable Document command in product and create a main Branch using Branch Definition and split the branch for sub branch using Add Branch Point then use Branch Definition for Sub Branch creation.

• check the boundle continuity using search
• Edit-->Search-->Advanced-->Electrical -->Bundle Segment-->Fully Connected--> chosse TRUE or FALSE then click a search.

• This is harness B, all bundle are successfully connected.

• This is harness A, all bundle are successfully connected.

• using the annotation toolbar for annotation
• Annotaion Tool Bar-->View from reference-->Front view-->Flag note with reader then select a connector and its face for plane then type the name and fix the annotation.

THE INTERCONNECTION FOR HARNESS A AND B:

• We use the move toolbar commands like manipulation, rotation, transformation, and compass for the Interconnection of two connectors from two different products in assembly.
• In this condition we don't use the Coincident command for interconnection for harness A and B bcoz, it is not recommended to use the coincident command from the external product and interconnect the connectors from two different products.

BUNDLE WARNING AND GENERATION OF CATpart AND CONVERSION TO Iges FILE:

• All bundle warnings are cleared by modifiying the slack, bundle radius, connnector location and reverse tangent in routing.

• Tools --> Generate CATPart from Product --> select the product, now you got a part file.
• If you need any graphical changes then do it and save it as CATPart.

• Fnally select a CATPart and save as igs file format.