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

Wiring harness design in CATIA V5

Aim:

Route two electrical harnesses per the given layout and interconnect them as a single harness assembly

check for bundle continuity, and bundle warnings, and then provide annotations for 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.

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.
• Bundle continuity has to be checked for the two created harnesses.
• After the two Harnesses are created, the next objective is to have them interconnected electrically.
• Check for bundle warnings in Harness A and Harness B.
• 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.

HARNESS B:

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.

HARNESS ASSEMBLY

CONNECTIVITY CHECK:

ANNOTATIONS:

Converted as a part body and save as IGS Format: