Wiring harness design in CATIA V5 - 3D modeling Week 7 Challenge
Q1. 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.
Answer:
1.DT06-2S
• Create midpoint on the contact face which will be normal to wire bundle insertion.
•Create Axis System with respect to the point which we have created and defining the axis direction.
Switch to 'Electric Part Design'
•Define the part as connector in catia, give no. of termination as 2 because we have 2 entry points for wire.
•Bundle connection point:
•Connector connection point:
2. DT06-4S
•Create midpoint on the contact face which will be normal to wire bundle insertion.
•Create Axis System with respect to the point which we have created and defining the axis direction.
Switch to 'Electric Part Design'
•Define the part as connector in catia, give no. of termination as 4 because we have 4 entry points for wire.
•Define Bundle connection point
•Define connector connection point
3.DT06-6S
•Create midpoint on the contact face which will be normal to wire bundle insertion.
•Create Axis System with respect to the point which we have created and defining the axis direction .
Switch to 'Electric Part Design'
•Define the part as connector in catia, give no. of termination as 6 because we have 6 entry points for wire.
• Define Bundle connection point:
•Define connector connection point
4.DT06-08SA
•Create midpoint on the contact face which will be normal to wire bundle insertion.
•Create Axis System with respect to the point which we have created and defining the axis direction as shown below.
Switch to 'Electric Part Design'
•Define the part as connector in catia, give no. of termination as 8 because we have 8 entry points for wire.
•Define Bundle connection point:
•Define connector connection point:
Product
•Open a new product file and imported all the defined models into it.
•Draw a sketch as required.
•Using snap arranging the Connectors by following the Layout.
Creating Multi-Branching to the connectors
creating a protective covering
Harness Flattening Procedure:
•Harness flattening can be created from the Electrical Harness Flattening Workbench in CATIA V5.
•Create a new product file in the Electrical Harness Flattening workbench and rename it as of our requirement.
•Select the product file and define Flattening parameters to it. And we can rename it as of our requirement.
•Save the flattening product file in the same folder which is having all the other required documents.
•Create vertical windows with Harness assembly product and flattening product files.
•Using the Extract option, extract the harness assembly into the flattening product.
•Convert the extracted harness assembly into the flattened harness assembly by using the Flatten commend.
Create a Drawing File for the flattened harness product.
•First, we need to make sure that in the flatten parameter settings bundles and protective coverings have different graphical representation which are,
Bundle Segments – Singe line representation
Protective coverings – Double line representation.
With 3D-Color
Drawing without protective covering:
Drawing with protective covering
