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

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

AIM

Flatten the harness assembly completed in “ week 4 challenge”. Place the flattened view on drawing sheet. Ensure bundles with protective coverings has different visuals on drawing view.

PROCEDURE

STEP 1: Mechanical Part into Electrical Part

Creation of connector connection point:

• Make a midpoint on the contact face for wire bunddle insertion.
• Create an axis system referencing the newly generated point and specifying the axis direction.
• The Y-Axis should be oriented towards the connector's front face.
• The X-Axis should be oriented towards the clip's locking mechanism.
• The Z-axis should be pointing across the connector from left to right.

Creation of Bundle Conncection Point.

Define the part as a connector and specify terminations.

Define Bundle connection point.

Define connector connection point.

STEP 2: As per the Design, Arranging the Connectors & Creating Multi-Branching to the connectors

Branches inner diameter are 10mm and 5mm

STEP 3:  Creating a protective covering with Cot tubes of 10mm and 15mm

HARNESS FLATTENING

• We define the flattening parameters at the harness flattening workbench.
• The harness assembly is brought here to the flattening workbench using the extract command.
• The harness assembly is flattened once we select an appropriate plane.
• The needed angles are used to ROTATE the bundle segments. After that, the harness assembly is drafted.
• To make the bundle and the corrugated Tubes visible in the 3D drawings, flattening settings are defined.

HARNESS DRAWING

CONCLUSION

Thus, 

• Flattened the harness assembly completed in “ week 4 challenge”.
• Placed the flattened view on drawing sheet.
• Ensured bundles with protective coverings has different visuals on drawing view.