A harness design is the best way to plan your electronics or electromechanical systems. These harnesses bundle a ton of wires together and map out their route to make sure your components are correctly connected together.
In this guide, we’ll explain why it’s so hard to design a harness, the complexities involved, what Creo Schematic is, and why CAD/CAM Services is the best choice for your next harness design.
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We expedite every harness design by using Creo Schematic, but what is it? Creo Schematic is a built-in tool within the CAD program PTC Creo. Creo Schematic is really good at two things: 2D designs, and laying out a system.
In this case, we use Creo Schematic to lay out the full system of wiring needed for your project, and subsequently put together your harness design. It offers automatic wire routing which takes into account wire gauge, how many wires are running, and minimum bend radii across the board.
In addition, we can use a pre-made library of parts to make sure the right wire dimensions are used.
In our experience, using Creo Schematic for harness designs is the quickest and most accurate way to put together wiring runs for your entire mechanism.
If you’ve tried to design a harness in the past, you already know how complicated it can be. It seems so simple: just run some wires from this board over to those sensors, but it never is. Routing cabling manually in CAD is a nightmare, and validating that the design actually works is difficult to do — sometimes you won’t know if your design is okay until everything is built and you go to integrate components. At that point, it’s too late.
Another major issue is knowing how to physically locate each component. Putting a sensor too close to a thermal source or liquids will ruin your design. It takes a trained eye to know where each part should be, which directly impacts how the harness is laid out.
It’s also worth noting that designing a harness isn’t something you can pick up quickly and execute correctly on your first attempt. It takes a lot of trial and error, and a lot of time to know how to correctly design a harness.
The good news? Our team at CAD/CAM Services not only has the experience, but we also have the software to help us create multiple harnesses and validate the designs before anything is built. Through Creo Schematic, we can expedite the project and build in a lot of extra confidence.
We’ve been helping companies like yours for over 35 years, and we have skilled harness designers on-staff to make every project look easy.
At CAD/CAM Services, we offer comprehensive harness design services. If you simply provide us a layout for your components, we’ll handle every other aspect of the harness design. This is great news for design teams who aren’t comfortable designing a harness, engineers who are buried under other work, or a manager who wants to save money on their harness design.
The solution is CAD/CAM Services. With us, you’ll unlock:
The entire process is streamlined, thanks to our 35+ years of working on complicated projects. We learned exactly how to create accurate, high-quality harness designs without wasting any of your time.
We can join your weekly update meetings or just call you whenever we have updates. We’re here to be out of the way and fit perfectly into your existing workflows.
When you choose us, we’ll start with a quick consultation. During this time, you can explain your electromechanical system and tell us what you’re looking for. We’ll spend time explaining specifically how we can help.
When you choose CAD/CAM Services, you are leveraging a team of industry experts. As mentioned, we’ve created countless harness designs for a number of companies, from small electronics shops to massive government defense projects.
With us, you don’t have to worry about the major learning curve associated with harness design. Instead, lean on our engineers who have the expertise to exceed your expectations and deliver harness designs that work perfectly.
In addition, you won’t have to spend the time or money training your team how to use Creo Schematic. This program is counter-intuitive in a lot of ways, and it’s not comparable to a typical CAD program. It can easily take months to get a strong grasp of all the nuances within Creo Schematic, and most of our clients don’t have that kind of time to waste.
Instead of trying to DIY your harness design, you can allow our team at CAD/CAM Services to save you time, reduce overall errors, and ultimately save you money. We are here to help so your engineers can focus on other aspects of the overall design — let our guys handle the harness design.
It’s really easy to get started with CAD/CAM Services. Get a free, personalized quote, or reach out for a quick consultation to better understand our harness design services.
So many companies have chosen CAD/CAM Services for our professional harness design services. We utilize Creo Schematic to deliver the best possible results without wasting your time, and without sacrificing on quality. Choosing us will free up your engineers, avoid costly learning curves, and take a major part of the design off your plate.
Reach out to us today to get started, and learn how CAD/CAM Services can transform all of your design and CAD tasks.
Fill out our quote form, attach your files, or simply send us an email. Tell everything about your project, like the model purpose.
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Yes. NDAs are a common part of our business. All data is yours – not ours, and treated as proprietary data and not for public consumption or use. Probably 70% of our work is under NDA agreements. We can generally get these signed within the day.
It depends on the scope of work:
Simple jobs have a lead time of 48 hours. Larger projects are delivered and invoiced weekly.
Yes, we did back in 2008. We started using Cad Perfect™ back in the early 1990s because all of our customers wanted only real Cad Perfect™ work. Back then the buzz words were terms like machine ready, or DXF Traceover and others.
The problem is, nobody wanted that. They all wanted drawings and models that they did not have to touch. Everybody wanted drawings just as if they hand redrew the work themselves.
Thus, Cad / Cam Services™ was the first company to start offering ONLY Cad Perfect™ work.
Yes we do, and have now for several years. In addition, we also support the industry specific plans as well.
A Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is a form of non-destructive testing (NDT) that shows how your part reacts to real-world loading events. A common example is running an FEA on a support bracket. The FEA will give results showing how much the bracket deflects, how much reactive force is seen, and the kind of internal stresses the bracket experiences.
FEA results will change dramatically based on the position and angle of the load, how much force is applied, the material properties of the part, and the design of the part itself.
An FEA is used to optimize a part before manufacturing begins. It allows you to find weak points within your part or assembly, and it will predict a failure before you physically make anything. This gives you an opportunity to fine-tune each part to optimize its size, strength, and cost before you start producing it.
The more information we have, the more accurate the simulation results will be. It also depends on what type of simulation you want to run. For a simple FEA, we can run an accurate simulation with just a 3D CAD model and loading/force/pressure information that you want to simulate.
Don’t have a 3D model? Not a problem, our team can make one for you from scratch, and then run an FEA on it.
For a more detailed answer, a well-run FEA will need:
• Material properties: What material is the part made out of? We can run different FEAs with different materials to help you pick the right one.
• Loading conditions: The size, location, and type of load you want to simulate.
• Bonding condition: How is the part held in place? Is it bolted, welded, or just sitting on a tabletop?
• A 3D model
• For other simulations: Please provide us with all thermal, dynamic, aero, and/or fluid flow information. Feel free to call us and we’ll walk you through what we need.
Per hour. Hourly rate depends on what CAD software used and typically starts at $75 per hour. In general, to make this process safer for you, we often provide you a fixed not to exceed the cost as well. That way, you are protected from an open-ended PO. However, the reality is our fees are based on time. In addition, services in say Catia or NX are more expensive than say Solidworks. Or, simulation services are commonly done by real engineers.
First of all, we need to know the target CAD system and whether you have an existing template, or set of CAD standards for this project.
The main question is the overall complexity. As each part and assembly consists of different features and elements the best way is to provide us with an example. Again, a picture is worth a thousand words.
If you already have a model and need us to improve it or update it in any way we need to know which dimensions and features are critical and which can be modified to achieve your desired result. Even a before and after example works very well. We started with x, and got to this CAD file.
We can also offer you better options if you provide us with the purpose of your project (demonstration, 3D printing, FEA Simulation, CNC manufacturing, etc.). This helps us better refine the task.
We create 2D drawings from our 3D models for QC purposes. We follow aerospace standards and deliver ±.005” accuracy models for all projects. All of our QC is done by a different person than the designer. On Catia work, we often use Q-Checker for Airbus.
We have a minimum order fee $150.