CATIA V5: Electrical Harness Flattening

Learn how to use the Electrical Harness Flattening workbench to extract, flatten and synchronize an electrical or geometrical harness.

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CLASSROOM LENGTH:  1 day

INSTRUCTOR-LED ONLINE LENGTH:  1 day


PREREQUISITES:  Knowledge of Catalog Editor, CATIA V5 Electrical Harness Installation and Assembly and Electrical Wire Routing.


DESCRIPTION:  This course will teach you how to use the Electrical Harness Flattening workbench to extract, flatten and synchronize an electrical / geometrical harness. You will learn how to manipulate the flattened harness and how to define and generate a harness flattening report. You will also learn how to use text templates to create an annotated and dimensioned 2D drawing of a 3D harness.

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Lesson 1: 
Introduction to Electrical Harness Flattening

  • Introduction
  • User interface of the Electrical Harness Flattening workbench

Lesson 2: 
Defining the Harness Flattening Parameters

  • Setting different harness flattening parameters

Lesson 3: 
Extracting and Manipulating the Harness

  • Extract and flatten the harness
  • Straighten, Rotate, Bend, Roll, and Scale a bundle segment

Lesson 4: 
Synchronizing a Flattened Harness

  • Synchronize a flattened harness
  • Define synchronization report repository
  • Visualize the links

Lesson 5: 
Generating Reports

  • Define reports
  • Generate reports

Lesson 6: 
Mapping the Flattened Harness Views

  • Update flatten links
  • Remove flatten links

Lesson 7: 
Creating Harness Drawings

  • Create a harness drawing
  • Customize drafting views
  • Generate dimensions
  • Annotate the wires

Lesson 8: 
Creating Text Template Catalogs

  • Create a text template catalog
  • Instantiate a text template from the catalog

Lesson 9: 
Replacing Graphic Representations

  • Replace graphic representations with 2D details

Lesson 10: 
Generating Annotations Automatically

  • Set options to use GVS (Generative View Style) files
  • Generate annotations automatically

Lesson 11: 
Exercises: Electrical Harness Flattening

  • Flatten, synchronize, and duplicate the harness
  • Practice creating a text template catalog
  • Harness drawing

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