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electrical routing (wiring harness, no refs)

electrical routing (wiring harness, no refs)

electrical routing (wiring harness, no refs)

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I have been tasked with creating wiring harness drawings from a given example of that harness.

so for my models i dont have a reference to run the wires from and to. I am just looking for the best way that i should go about creating these drawings.

I have looked at simply creating drawings without assemblies however i then need to specify the wire and wire lengths etc.. in the BOM.

any suggestions would be much appreciated.

thanks

RE: electrical routing (wiring harness, no refs)

tha89sx,
This is what we do here in our R & D department. Since we don't have SW routing add-in, this is our method.

Engineering Design:
Put the connectors were the need to go in your design in a SW assembly.
Example:

Engineering Detail Drawing:
Use sketch geometry to drawing the wirings in 2D views:
Example:

The folks in the assemble lab will build an actual harness to this, and then give the engineers the wire lengths to build an interconnect wiring list.
Example:

Other SW eng-tip users may have a different approach. I hope this helps,

Colin

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RE: electrical routing (wiring harness, no refs)

Nice approach.  We tag all our harness 3D models "For Model Only" and use a 2D drawing for actual manufacturing data.  We do basically the same, put connectors in teh air where they need to go, then group them as the harness part number.

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RE: electrical routing (wiring harness, no refs)

That's very similar to the way I do it, except I create 3D sketches for the wires. That way I don't need to add 2D sketches to the drawing vies and, if/when needed, the 3D sketches can be used to create sweeps.

cheers

RE: electrical routing (wiring harness, no refs)

CBL,
You can also get wiring lengths for your method. I really don't have time to do this procedure. Plus the guys and gals (mostly the gals) would comment and say I didn't have enough wire length added. And you don't want to mess with women. LOL!

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RE: electrical routing (wiring harness, no refs)

You can model the wire... 3d sketch & sweep... whatever method you prefer. Then set your part density to match the real wire. Then use the mass of your model to calculate the real length.

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