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This task explains
how to import physical
devices, for example an equipment with its connectors from a catalog
according to its functional definition, previously performed in EFD. |
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Make sure the Electrical Library options are properly set up with the
correct catalog. |
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Click Place Physical
Device
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You are prompted to select a functional device.
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Select
Equipment-AXC-12 in the specification tree.
The Catalog Browser displays the correct catalog,
with a pre-selected equipment: |
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Select PN-19102000-1050.
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Click OK to validate.
You are prompted to decide whether you want or not to import the
connectors together with the equipment.
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Click Yes to import the connectors at the same
time:
- The physical equipment is imported together with the
connectors, owing to the functional information.
- The electrical link between the functional and the physical
device is created (a message is displayed). When you select the
functional equipment in the specification tree, the physical
equipment is highlighted in the geometry area.
- In the specification tree, the functional equipment
and
connector icons turn to green.
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The specification tree is updated: |
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Step 5, if you
choose No:
- The connectors are not imported and you are informed that all
the links have not been performed:
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- However you can place the connectors later.
To do so:
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Click Place Physical Device
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Select the functional connector
Connector-AX1 in the specification tree.
The catalog opens.
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Select PN-19102000-1100.
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Click OK to validate.
The connector is correctly placed in the cavity of the
equipment and the link is done, owing to the functional
information.
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The specification tree is updated. |
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How is the reconciliation done between
functional and physical?
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Between connectors:
A check is performed between the functional connector
Nominal Part Number and the physical connector Part
Number:
- If they are identical: the link is done
- If the functional connector Nominal Part Number is
empty: the link is automatically done
- If the functional connector Nominal Part Number is
different from the physical connector Part Number, a
message is displayed. You can decide whether you want to create
the link (using the OK button) or not (Cancel).
Then a check is performed between the sub-entities Id
Number: the functional contacts and physical cavities,
terminations:
- If the ID Number are identical, the link is
created between functional and physical sub-entities
- If some ID Number are different, a message warns
you that only some of the functional and physical sub-entities
have been linked.
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Between equipment:
A check is performed between the functional Nominal
Part Number and the physical equipment Part Number:
- If they are identical: the link is done
- If the functional equipment Nominal Part Number is
empty: the link is automatically done
- If the functional equipment Nominal Part Number is
different from the physical equipment Part Number, a
message is displayed. You can decide whether you want to create
the link (using the OK button) or not (Cancel).
Then the functional connectors have to be reconciled with the
physical connectors of the equipment: the mapping is done between
the functional connector Id Number and the cavity
Id Number of the equipment. When a cavity Id Number
is compatible, the connector plugged in this cavity is reconciled
with the functional connector.
Then the checks are performed between connectors and between the
sub-entities (see above). |
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Using shells:
In the physical world, an electrical assembly possibly consists
of an equipment, shells, connectors and their sub-entities. In the
functional world, the shell does not exist.
Since the mapping between physical connector and functional
connector plugged on an equipment is done through the Id
Number, when a shell is used, CATIA temporarily generates an
Id Number, following the rule below:
"Id Number of the equipment cavity" + "|"
+ "Id Number of the shell cavity"
Example: E1|S1
It is this Id Number which will be compared to the
Id Number of the functional connector. |
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Automatic placement
of a connector on an equipment already realized:
If a functional system consists of an equipment with
connectors, if the equipment is already realized but not the
connectors, when you place the physical connectors from the catalog
using this button
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they are automatically placed at the correct location in the
cavities of the equipment. |
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