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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Electrical Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Electrical Part Design Workbench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Electrical Assembly Design Workbench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Bottom Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Catalog Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 External System Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Electrical Part Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Mounting Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Mounting Equipment with Cavity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Defining a Cavity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Mounting Equipment with Cavity Connection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Defining a Cavity Connection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Mounting Equipment with a Bundle Connection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Defining a Bundle Connection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Shells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Shell Equipment with a Shell Connection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Defining a Shell Connection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Shell Equipment with a Back Shell Connection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Defining a Back Shell Connection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Single Insert Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Single Insert Connector with Connector Connection Point . . . . . . . 43 Defining a Connector Connection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Stud, Terminal Strip, Terminal Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 External Splice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Multi Insert Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Defining Terminations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Filler Plug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Back Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Protection Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Supports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Multi-Position Supports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Adaptive Supports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

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Electrical Catalogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Catalog Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Catalog Editor Workbench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Catalog Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Linking to Other Catalogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Part Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Design Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Creating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Modifying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Copying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Reordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Removing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Catalog Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Adding a Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Adding Generative Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Synchronizing Chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Catalog Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Electrical Assembly Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Electrical Properties at the Instance and Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Defining Electrical Assembly Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Assembling Electrical Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Electrical Assembly Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Electrically Related Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Assembling Electrical Devices and Adding Connection Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Assembling Electrical Devices Utilizing and Electrical Catalogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Problem #1.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Problem #2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Problem #3.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

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Appendix A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Equipment & Systems - Electrical Harness Discipline - Electrical Assembly Design General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Equipment & Systems - Electrical Harness Discipline - Electrical Assembly Design Electrical Library Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Appendix B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Device Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Mounting Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Single Insert Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Stud, Terminal Strip, Terminal Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 External Splice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Multi Insert Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Filler Plug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Back Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Cavity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Connector Connection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Bundle Connection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Cavity Connection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Back Shell Connection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Shell Connection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

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Upon completion of this course the student should have a full understanding of the following topics: Defining electrical parts and assemblies Defining electrical connection points Defining support parts Storing electrical parts into catalogs Assembling electrical parts

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Electrical Design is the first phase of defining an electrical harness. Before you can begin defining the wire segments and bundles, you need to first build the electrical parts. The actual building of the parts is done utilizing part design, generative shape design, and other part related workbenches. Once the model is developed, you are ready to begin defining the electrical properties for that model. Any part that is to be used with the electrical harness should have all necessary electrical properties defined prior to trying to build a harness. There are three stages to defining an electrical part. You must first always build the part. This can generally be the most difficult aspect since you will need to determine the level of complexity for the part. The more complex you make the part, the more detailed it will become and the more information you can put into the part and take out of the part. Take, for example, a simple electrical cord plug.

This type of plug can be modeled and electrified in a number of different degrees of complexity. You could model the plug as a single cylinder where only the wire connection point is identified.

This type of model is easily created and can rapidly be used when defining electrical properties, however it lacks a lot of information. In this case, you would indicate that the wire bundle would connect to the connector via one termination point. You would then have to have adequate documentation to indicate which wire was to connect to which terminal, as well as the number of terminals, terminal arrangement, etc. This type of plug is often used more for space reservation and rapid proof of concept rather than a final design.

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The next level of complexity would be to indicate that the plug has three connection points.

Although there is little change in the model, you will be able to define more information with the electrical terminations on this model. In this case, you will be able to define each specific termination and the route of the wire from pin to pin. Although there is not a high amount of part detail, you will have a higher amount of electrical detail just by adding a few extra points in the model. The highest level of detail would be to define the entire product.

At this point, you would have a very high level of detail for both the digital design of the model and the electrical properties for this assembly. In this case, you would not only be able to define the contacts for the electrical part, but you would also be able to define the shells, back shells, supports, and all other components for the plug. Keep in mind, although this type of assembly does show and have the most detail, it also takes the longest to build. When determining what you will need to build, be sure to take into account how long you want to spend building the part, and what information you need to pull from the part. If you find you need a high level of information from the part, you will need to be highly detailed for the product. In this course, you will utilize two electrical workbenches along with all your part and assembly workbenches. It will be assumed that you have a good understanding of Part Design and Assembly Design, as well as some understanding of Wireframe and Surfaces. In this course you will primarily be using the Electrical Part Design and Electrical Assembly Design workbenches to electrify your parts and products.

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A stud is generally a device used to terminate a wire, or group of wires at a common location. Terminal strips and terminal blocks also allow for wire termination at a common model location, but not necessarily in the same physical place. Grounding or power distribution points are often one of these devices where a series of wires all come together at a common point. These devices can have one cavity connection point and multiple bundle connection points or cavities defined. You can also have termination points directly defined on them as well. Stud, Terminal Strip, Terminal Block Connection Type Cavity Can Connect to this Connection Type Cavity Connection Point Cavity Bundle Segment Extremity

On this type of Device

Contact Mounting Equipment Equipment Shell Bundle Segment

Cavity Connection Point

Bundle Connection Point

Notice, to connect things such as a contact to your stud you will need to define a cavity on the device. Many times you may not model your device with cavities (holes / pockets). In this exercise, you will not only define the stud equipment, but you will also look at fooling the system into allowing for the types of connections you wish to make. Even though you will only be looking at a stud device, keep in mind, the exact same options and methods are available for the terminal strips and terminal blocks. Open the Stud document. This is a simple grounding post model that you will define as a stud connector, then define the various connection types on it.

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Note that there are no cavities on this stud, however, you will still want to be able to define contact connection points to allow for terminals to be attached to the stud (for example, the terminal shown below).

Select the Define Connector icon and select the part. definition window.

This will display the connector

Change the connector Type to Stud and change the Part Number to Ground Stud. At this moment, you will not define terminations on the grounding stud. Terminations can always be added at a later time. Select OK when done. At this point, you are ready to define the necessary connection points on the grounding stud. Start a cavity connection point on the stud. Change the Name to Stud Mount. The stud mount point is going to be at the bottom of the stud, against the flat portion of the builtin washer. Select the cylinder of the stud as the Representation, the flat portion of the washer as the Contact and the centerline of the cylinder as the Coincidence.

Select OK when done. This will define the necessary placement constraints for the stud mount. At this point, you are ready to start defining the other connection points. If you remember right, stud connectors can have bundle connection points or cavities defined on it. A bundle connection point would simulate a wire being wrapped directly around the stud, whereas a cavity will allow a contact or terminal to be mounted on the stud. In this example, you will define both a bundle connection point and a cavity at each virtual connection location along the stud to allow for several wires to ground at the same point.

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Start a bundle connection point on the Ground Stud. Change the name to BCP1. This will identify this as the first bundle connection point. In this case you will be representing the bundle connection points as a point along the stud. Press the third mouse button while on the Representation field and select Create Point. This will allow you to create the necessary point to represent the bundle connection point on the fly. This will display the point definition window. With the point type set to Coordinates, set the point at (0,0,0.075). Select OK when done. This will put the point at 0.075in along the Z-axis. This will display the bundle connection point window when you select OK.

Notice that the representation and the point definition were defined just by creating the one point. When you select a point as the representation, the point placement constraint is automatically defined. Since you will not know or want to control the initial condition of the bundle, you will not be defining an initial condition. Select OK to the Bundle Connection Point Definition window. This will establish the bundle connection point.
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Now you are going to define a cavity at the exact same location, thus allowing the user to terminate a bundle or a contact at the stud. Select the Define Cavity icon and select the stud. Change the Id Number to ContactCP1. This will indicate the first contact connection point. Even though you do not have a physical cavity in the stud, you will be able to define the cavity via the point created with the bundle connection point. Note: If you did not want the bundle connection point, you could always create the point first, then define it with the cavity connection point. You cannot, however, create the point on the fly with the representation of the cavity connection point. Select the point created earlier as the Representation. Now you can define the necessary placement constraints for the cavity. Select the same point as the Contact placement constraint. Select the centerline of the stud as the Coincidence placement constraint. Again, since you do not want to force the contact in any particular direction, you do not need to define an orientation constraint. Keep in mind, if you did want to define an orientation constraint, you would need to generate a line that goes through the coincidence and contact locations. Select OK when done. This will establish a cavity on the model to allow for a cavity connection point in a contact to attach.

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At this point, you can now attach a contact or a bundle at the same location.

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Feel free to create a few more connection points along the length of the stud. Creating the additional connection points is not required, however, it makes for good practice to define the necessary connection points. Be sure to space the connection points out along the length of the stud.

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External Splice

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An external splice is similar to a junction box. The external splice only allows for bundle connection points and is not designed to be a wire by wire splice. Wire to wire splices within a geometric bundle is an internal splice and is only available when in the Electrical Assembly Design workbench. External Splice Connection Type Bundle Connection Point Can Connect to this Connection Type Bundle Segment Extremity On this type of Device Bundle Segment

The only type of connection point that can be defined on the external splice is a bundle segment. Open the External Splice document. This is a simple junction box with the cover removed.

This external splice will have six different bundle connection points. Select the Define Connector icon and select the External Splice part. Change the connector Type to External Splice and change the Part Number to Junction Box. Select OK when done. This will have the box defined as a connector device. This part will have no terminations at this point. Select the Define Bundle Connection Point icon and select the junction box. first bundle connection point you are going to define will be on the right side. The

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Change the Name of the bundle connection point to Lg BCP 1 and select the right hole as the Representation. This hole is shown below.

Create a point at the center of the hole as the Point placement constraint and select the planar face as the Initial Condition placement constraint. This will have the first bundle connection point defined for the external splice. Select OK when done. Creating the bundle connection point for the external splice is no different than creating the bundle connection point for any of the other type of device. Create the other necessary bundle connection points around the front and left side of the external splice. You should end up with the following electrical connection points.

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Multi Insert Connectors

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Multi insert connectors only allow for connections to single insert connectors and mounting equipment. Generally multi insert connectors work good for Y adapters or splitters where you will have multiple single insert connectors connecting. Multi insert connectors can also be used in the place of an external splice when several connectors are connecting together, rather than the bundle segments themselves. Multi Insert Connector Connection Type Connector Connection Point Cavity Connection Point Can Connect to this Connection Type Connector Connection Point Cavity On this type of Device Single Insert Connector Mounting Equipment

Open the Multi Insert Connector document. This is a mockup of a coax cable splitter.

Using the Define Connector icon, define this part as a Multi Insert Connector. Change the Part Number to Cable TV Splitter and leave the Number of Terminations at zero and select OK. Even though you are going to end up defining eight terminations for this model (two per connector) you will be learning to define this after the fact for this connector. Now that the device is defined as a multi insert connector, you are now ready to define the cavity connection point for mounting to other mounting equipment devices. Select the Define Cavity Connection Point icon and select the connector. You will be defining the cavity connection point with just a contact constraint. Since this type of connector does not specifically go into a cavity, just the contact placement constraint will suffice.

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Change the Name to Connection Face and select the bottom face of the connector as shown below for the Representation and the Contact placement constraint. This will have the cavity connection point defined.

Select OK when done. Now that the cavity connection point is defined, you are ready to start defining the connector connection points. Select the Define Connector Connection Point icon and select the connector. This will start the connector connection point. The first connection point you will define will be the input connection point. Change the Name to Input and select the cylinder for the Representation. This surface is shown below.

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Select the front face of the connector as the Contact placement constraint. Again, this surface is shown.

Select the centerline of the connector as the Coincidence placement constraint. This will have the connector connection point defined. Select OK when done. Now all you need to do is define the terminations for the input connector connection point.

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Defining Terminations

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Terminations can be defined on any type of connector. Keep in mind, the terminations are just simply the termination of a wire at the connector. Terminations can only be defined in the following type of equipment: Equipment Single Insert Connector Stud (only one) Internal Splice Shell Multi Insert Connector External Splice Terminal Strip Contact (Only One) Select the Define Termination icon and select the connector. Termination Definition window. This will display the

Look familiar? This is the same window that is displayed when you double select on a termination from the tree. If you remember, the Id Number simply defines the termination identifier and the Representation defines the geometry that will highlight when the terminal is selected. Change the Id Number to Input_Ground and select the outer surface of the input connector as the Representation. This surface is shown below.

Select OK when done. This will have your first termination defined.

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Using the Define Termination icon, define another termination for the tip. the Id Number to Input_Tip and select the inner cylindrical surface as the Representation. This is shown below.

Set

Select OK when done. This will have the two terminations defined for the input.

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Create the necessary connector connection points and terminations for the three output connectors. This will have all the necessary connections and terminations defined.

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Contacts

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Contacts can be any type of device used to make the physical electrical power transmission from one connector to another. Contact Connection Type Can Connect to this Connection Type On this type of Device Mounting Equipment Equipment Shell Single Insert Connector Back Shell Bundle Segment

Cavity Connection Point

Cavity

Bundle Connection Point

Bundle Segment Extremity

Open the Contact document. This is a simple round terminal that you will define as a contact.

Select the Define Contact icon and select the terminal. Contact Definition window.

This will display the

Change the Part Number to 0.25 Round Terminal and select OK. This will define the part as an electrical contact, and define a contact termination in the specification tree.

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Now all you need to do is define the bundle connection point and a cavity connection point. Select the Define Cavity Connection Point icon and select the terminal. Change the cavity connection point Name to Terminal Hole. Select the surface of the hole as the Representation. This will have the cavity connection point definition started. Select the bottom of the terminal as the Contact placement constraint. This surface is shown below.

Select the centerline of the hole as the Coincidence placement constraint. Select OK when done. This will have the cavity connection point defined. All you have left is to define the bundle connection point at the back of the terminal. This will be left for you to complete. You can use the point at the back center as the bundle connection point placement constraint. This will have the terminal defined.

Save and close your document.

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Filler Plug

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Filler plugs are devices designed to fill unused cavities in various types of equipment. Filler plug equipment is a very simple definition, only allowing cavity connection points. Filler Plug Connection Type Can Connect to this Connection Type On this type of Device Mounting Equipment Equipment Shell Single Insert Connector

Cavity Connection Point

Cavity

Open the Filler Plug document. This is a simple round filler plug.

Select the Define Filler Plug icon and select the filler plug. This will display the Filler Plug Definition window. Just like a contact, only a part number change is available with the definition of a filler plug. Change the Part Number to 0.16 Filler Plug and select OK. This will establish the part as a filler plug device. Start a cavity connection point definition on the filler plug. Change the Name to Filler Connection then set the Representation to the middle cylindrical surface. This surface is shown below.

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Select the ledge of the larger surface as the Contact placement constraint and the centerline of the filler plug as the Coincidence placement constraint. The contact placement constraint surface is shown below.

Select OK when done. This will have the filler plug defined.

Save and close the document.

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