CATIA Systems Generative 3DElectrical

Today electrical systems designers and 3D electrical designers need tooptimize the way they share information, interact together, often withindisconnected environments. The lack of continuity and efficientcollaboration in the electrical process can cause various difficulties andcan compromise the product global design.

CATIA Systems Generative 3D Wire Harness Design unifies in a singleworkflow the logical definition of wire harnesses and its physicalmockup. 3D physical wire harness and placement can be automaticallygenerated from its 2D schematic logical and 3D space reservationdefinition. Overall design change management cost is dramaticallyreduced thanks to the tight coupling of both logical and physical aspectand quality is improved. Reusing logical information to build physicaldata will save time to the user, by avoiding him to do the work twice,one in the logical design, and the second time in the 3D design.

Customer benefits

• Enhanced productivity withgenerative 3D electricaldesign

• Improved collaborationbetween electrical systemsand electrical 3D designers

• Reduced costs formanaging design changesbetween systems and 3Delectrical design

• Increased design qualitywith full consistencybetween Logical andPhysical electrical systems

• Benefit from the Logical tophysical approach also ifyou are working with anexternal ECAD application

Key capabilities

Capture Electrical Systems logicalArchitecture & Connectivity The logical model enables toperform the early design of Electricalsystems and Logical Wire Harnessprior to the physical structuredefinition with the flexibility toinvestigate easily different harnesssolutions. The product brings theelectrical semantic to the logical datamodel, in order to define equipmentswith their electrical interfaces, logicalconnectivity and logical harnesswiring content. It enables the creationof logical data including equipment,equipment connectors, pin, ports,Logical conductors (net and netgroup), logical harness, harnessconnector, splice (etc.), and wiringconductors (wire & cable).

Choose the data you want tosynchronize The purpose of the commandLogical to Physical synchronization isto generate and synchronize physicaldata with the logical data, in a flexibleway. At the launch of the logical tophysical synchronization commandyou need to select the physical datathat need to be synchronized(equipment and wire harness), aswell as the logical data.

Run the analysis This will proceed to a comparisonbetween the logical and physicalmodels. You get the list ofmodifications on the selected objects.This can be filtered by object type orstatus.

Select design modifications youwant to proceed You have the possibility to selectindividual design changes, and foreach of them you have the possibilityto accept or reject it. When you selectone in the list, a 3D preview isdisplayed, along with some textualinformation on the modification. Themodification will be done only aftergetting acceptance from user, toavoid undesired modifications.

Synchronization: generation ofphysical data based on logicaldata The data can be synchronized byclicking on the Synchronize button toapply the accepted modifications.During synchronization process, aprogress bar will be displayed in thedialog box, to inform you about theprogress of the Synchronize step.That step will generate all thephysical devices (equipmentconnectors, harness connector,splices, wires, wire groups), as wellas the harness bundle with branchesbased on logical pathway segments. More details

Reporting The Report will be displayed aftercompletion of Synchronization. Thereport page takes the form of a table,with information updated for eachelement. You can also generate anhtml report of the logical to physicalsynchronization.

CATIA Systems Generative 3D WireHarness Design.

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