Challenge

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

Objective:

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

Process:

Defining the cad files:

Open the igs files and create a midpoint on the face using point type as between.
Now we can create an axis system to the point we have created by using the command axis system
definition.
Make sure the x-axis is pointing towards the locking mechanism of the clip and the y-axis is pointing
towards the face of the connector.
We can create a midpoint on the entry using point type as between.
Now we can switch to electric part design.
Select the command bundle connection point.
Enter the number of terminals required.

Harness assembly:

Now we can open the electrical harness design workbench.
Select the parent part and copy, and paste all the connectors we have defined.
Now using line command in the assembly design.
We assign the lines in the required dimensions.
After creating the lines we can use the snap command to snap the connectors on the lines.
Now we can select branch definition.
We can select the branch and enter the dimensions.
Now click on the protective covering command and set the end extremity value as 30mm.

Flattening:

Drawing:

Open a new drawing file.
Click on the front view option.
Now open the flatten assembly and select the face we have selected for flattening.
Right-click on the red box around the drawing.
Now enable the 3D wireframe option and is always visible option.
Select the text option and name all the parts.
To insert the Bill of materials, click on insert- Generate- Bill of material.
We can also save the drawing in pdf format.

Result:

We have created the flattened view and flattened drawing of the harness assembly.

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