Wiring harness design in CATIA V5 - 3D modeling Week 4 Challenge

ROUTING THE DEUSTCH CONNECTORS 

AIM-To route the the listed connectors according to the diagram provided for positioning of the connectors and their respective routing,add the connectors in the catalog and even provide the corrugated tube for the two connectors connecting branch check the bundle connectivity to ensure connectors are connected electrically.

INPUT: 

1. The positioning drawing of all the connectors.
2. The connector cad files, which need to be defined electrically.

1)Download all the input files and store it in a single folder to manage your product in single file., the downloaded connectors must be electrically defined using the electrical part design workbench.

IMPORTANT NOTE: While defining the connectors make sure you list out all the terminals properly as later the terminals definition cannot be altered, once defined.

The connection control point and the bundle entry point is essential in all the connectors as it is pivotal at the time of routing.

2)Create a main product and name it as a context assembly in which create two more product file by the name of geometrical bundle and skeleton drawing, the skeleton drawing is used just for the reference of positioning of the connectors they do not have any significance as such in routing. In the geometrical bundle assembly jump to electrical harness assembly workbench and define assembly/product as geometrical bundle.

3)The geometrical bundle assembly i.e geometrical bundle  consist of all the conectors which are required in the respective harnesses, make sure you add those electrically defined connectors into geometrical bundle assembly.

4)Open the geometrical bundle and use the manipulation tool as well as the compass to adjust the position of the connector according to the drawing and you can use snap and rotational tool as well for positioning of the connectors.

5)After positioning of the connectors in the respective positions routing can be done, following the electrical harness assembly workbench command called MULTI-BRANCHABLE , where you can define the branch defination.The path is selected between the selected connectors, we can alter the path of routing by changing or defining the path by various possible outcomes of tools like tangency, exterior path,automation with clearance etc.

There will be one main branch and by creating the branch point we can create the sub-branches as well and repeat the same procedure for routing the components.

7)Now we need to add the cot tubes for asthetic as well as at slight distance from the two connectors, the cot tubes can be added from the catalog, either you can create one or you can store in respective already saved calatog.The cot tubes can be added in electrical harness assembly  , just need to click on the protective covering toolbar and then directing the directory to the catlog where you have saved the created cot tube for standard diameters.

8)Next we need to check the bundle connectivity which can be done from edit-search-advance  section where we can check the bundle connectivity of both the harnesses. We need to select the mukti-branchable from the tree structure in order to get the desired results.We can get either false results for the one who are not connected or true result for the connected branches.