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

procedure for defining connector into elctrical part

• Download the connector from the given link.
• Load the connector in mechanical part design and given point and axis by using point definition and axis definition.
• Then go to the elecrical part design and define it as a connector.
• Give bundle point and connector connection point.

procedure to draw sketch

• Go to the file select new and then select part.
• In the part select any plane and draw the sketch by given mesaurement.

• As shown in the above diagram and save the sketch.

procedure for the elctrical assembly design

• Load all the connector in the elctrical assembly .
• For the manipulation of the connector go to the mechanical assembly design.
• Use the tool manipulation for the proper and required arrangement for the connector.

• The black marking is use for the manipulation tool and red marking is use for the snap tool.
• These are the both tool used for the rearrangment of the parts.

procedure for electrical harnees design.

• After doing arrangment go to electrical harness assembly for harness bundle connection.
• In this process the harness is connected to the connector.
• First go to the geometric bundle tool select on that then select on the part name on the tree .
• Now the part is electricaly defined.
• Now go to the bundle segment then select the route definition.

• After that select the connector which have to connect and select ok.
• In that you can define the radius of the harness bundle.

• Above two red tick shows the components is selected by clicking on them.
• Reverse tangent is used to connect the bundle in straight way.
• Branch point is used define point on the branch for the other harness bundle connection.

• Above in fig. in the red mark is add branch tool.
• After selecting the tool and click on the point where we need the branch the above pop up will come.
• in that pop we can select the reference point by length or ratio.
• we used the length because it was given.
• Then after doing this select ok the branch point will be created.
• Then for the harness bundle the connector can connect to the branch point and itself.
• Similar ways the harness bundle connection can be done.

• The above figure shows the harness bunddle connection.

procedure to add protective covering

• Now exit the bundle definition by clicking on the exit shown in below fig.

• After doing this you come harness assembly design.

• In red colour marked tool define as add protective .
• By clicking on the tool and then select the harness bundle for the protective covering and add cot tubes .

• after the click on the tool right side pop will come after click on the part and then click on the right red colour part.
• After that left side pop up will come in select the cot tube you required.
• We slect the cot 15 tube then select ok.
• The proctive covering will bee add.

• After that you can give exterimity by clicking on the red colour indicator on the part.
• After that the bottom pop will come.
• In that the length is 30mm is enter aand then click ok the extemity will be given.

• After adding protective covering.

procedure to flatten the harness assembly.

• Load the harness assembly which created at week 4 challenge.
• Now open the workbench electrical harness flattening

• Now click on the harness flatening parameter tool on right side.

• After click on that tool this pop up will come .
• in that select the harrness parameter and click ok.
• now all the tool in the electrical harnees flatening will show in the right side.

• As shown in above figure click on the tool extract denoted in blue colour.
• And then click on the name of the assembly open on the tree.
• Then the assembly will load in the electrical flatening workbench.
• Then click on the tool flatten and then click on the surface and all the branches of the aseembly.

• Now after flatten the assembly go to the file then new andd then click on the drawing.

• After that click on the tool front view denoted in red colour in right side.
• And then select the surface which have been selected for flatten.

• Then click on the drawing sheet the assembly wiil appear.
• First you have to right click on the red line and select the properties.
• After that click on the red colour marked and enable it.

• Now the whole assembly will appear with cot tubes.
• Go to the insert>generation >bill of material>bill of meterial.
• After doing this the right bottom block of specification will appear.
• Now save the drawing.