Overview

Electrical 3D Installation is a product dedicated to the design of physical harnesses within the context of the 3D mock-up. Harness design is totally integrated into the mechanical assemblies.

The Electrical 3D Installation User's Guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the application.

Electrical 3D Installation in a Nutshell

Electrical 3D Installation allows you to design the physical harnesses within the context of the 3D mock-up. This product provides a set of objects having both mechanical and electrical properties.

Electrical 3D Installation offers the following main functions:


  • Creation of electrical geometry
  • Creation of electrical branch geometries, branches and segments
  • Definition of segment properties
  • Creation of electrical connections between segments and devices
  • Simulating the segment shape offering realistic segment representations
  • Use of supports to constrain segments.

Totally integrated with mechanical assemblies, electrical harnesses can be connected to either mechanical 3D shapes or electrical devices.

As a scalable product, Electrical 3D Installation can be used in cooperation with other current or future companion products such as Electrical Conductor Routing and Electrical Library.

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 6 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars.

Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 6 products. It also describes the general layout of Version 6 and the interoperability between workbenches.

You may also like to read the following complementary product guides, for which the appropriate license is required:


  • Electrical Conductor Routing
  • Electrical Library

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step user tasks which cover all product functionality.

The Interface Description section, which describes the commands that are specific to Electrical Assembly Design and Electrical Part Design workbenches and the Customizing settings section, which explains how to set up the options, will also certainly prove useful.