Wiring harness design in CATIA V5 - 3D modeling Week 7 Challenge

Aim :

To flatten the given wire harness assembly and place the flattened view on a drawing sheet.

Steps and procedures :

• First open the harness assemby design ready with all the deisred parts in it.
• Then open a new product file and save it as flattening product.
• Then save both the file in the same folder.
• Now open the electrical harness flattening workbench.
• Initially set the flattening parameters.

• Now view both the harness assemby file and the flattening product file in a vertical view.
• Now insert the harness assembly into electrical harness assembly workbench using the extract command.
• Arrange all the connectors and the pins in the desired view.
• Now click the flatten command and select the desired plane and click okay.
• Now the product will be flattened.

• Now arrange the flatness assembly as given in the question using the rotate command.

• Now open a new drawing file and select the desired sheet size.
• Now view the flattening product file and the drawing sheet vertically.
• Now click the front view command and select the drawing tree to insert the diagram.
• Now adjust the diagram and select the desired parameters.

Conclusion :

From the above assignment we learnt how to flatten a given wire harness assembly and how to place the flattened view on a drawing sheet and show all its components.