Wiring harness routing & packaging Rules Week 3 Challenge

1. Defining the P-Clamp as Electrical support Part:

• The P Clamp IGS file is downloaded and saved as CATPART.
• The points for entry and exit for both side are made using arc/circle/ellipse centre.
• Plane coincident to the end face and passing through the points is created.
• A base plane is created taking offset of the perpendicular of the entry and exit planes.
• Now electric part design wokbench is opened.
• The P Clamp is defined as a support.
• The entry point and plane, exit plane and the base plane is defined for one entry point.
• This step is repeated as the p clamp is bi directional so it can have both entry and exit planes as one.
• The P-Clamp is added into the clamp catalog.

2. Defining Back Shell as Electric Device

• The back shell STP part is downloaded from the website and saved as a CATPART.
• The bundle entry point and the back shell connection point is defined.
• An axis system is created from the back shell connection point.
• While creating the axis system it is kept in mind that the y axis is perpendicular to the connecting face.
• The back shell is then defined usng the define back shell tool.
• After defining the back shell, it is added into the back shell catalog.

(defining bac shell connection)

3. Creating COT Tubes

• A part named COT 15mm is created in CATIA.
• Electric design workbench is opened and define protection part tool is used to create corrugated tube. 
• The ID and thicness of the tube is proided.
• The best practice to define the bend radius is BR=1.5*OD. Using this the bend radus is also provided.
• The COT tube is then saved and added to the SLIT COT catalog family.
• This is done for all sizes of COT tubes.

(defining COT tube)

(Adding COT tube to catalog)