TransCable
Advanced Design Automation for Cable and Wire Harness Design
Highlights
- Enables design of electromechanical systems
- Supports wire harness and cable components such as wires, cables, splices, connectors, and fuses
- Performs custom electrical and physical design rule checks
- Debugs large designs using wire and device navigator with automatic report generation
- Identifies problems early in design process
- Searches library database for qualified parts
- Integrates with industry leading mechanical CAD systems
- Provides for customization of design methodologies and flows
Product Overview
TransCable is a schematic capture tool for electromechanical systems. It is integrated with mechanical CAD tools through bi-directional interfaces. TransCable is also integrated with TransDataBook™ for component library management. View Datasheet.
TransCable is a wire and net-based editor, which manages electrical signal connectivity between physical components. Logical nets may be automatically converted to wires and splices. Wires may be interactively routed between pins of physical components. Splices are automatically created when multiple wires are connected together. Multiple wires may also be routed to a common pin, which create a multi-termination. Cables types such as twisted, flat, or shielded may be defined. Shielded cable symbols have termination pins to support grounding of shields with a wire connection. Cables may also be defined within other cables.
TransDataBook Upgrade
TransDataBook is an upgrade product to TransCable. It provides library management of parts and can be synchronized with a company's parts information system. A designer may specify queries to search a library to select qualified parts. Component and wire attribute sets are annotated to generic symbols to create unique parts. Attributes on parts are used during simulation, analysis, and design rule checks.
Design Rules
Electrical, physical and manufacturing design rules can be customized and checked to insure that a company's best practices are followed. TransCable provides standard checks to verify that wires, splices and cables have been properly defined.
These checks identify problems prior to passing design information to the Mechanical CAD tools. Manufacturing reports such as bill of materials (BOMs) and wire "From-To" lists are automatically generated and may be customized with user defined formats.
Integration with Mechanical CAD Tools
TransCable is integrated with the industry leading mechanical CAD vendors. CAT/TransCable Interface™ integrates TransCable and Dassault Systemes' CATIA 3D Electrical Systems (E3D) environment. SDRC/TransCable Interface™ (see note at the top of the SDRC/TransCable file)integrates TransCable and EDS' I-DEAS Harness Design product.
Electrical connectivity and component attributes are passed to the mechanical CAD environment. Bundles are then routed in the 3D mechanical CAD tool. Wires, cables, and splices are assigned to physical bundles. Physical design attributes such as separation codes, gauge, maximum bend radius, and maximum wire lengths are passed to the mechanical CAD tool. These attributes are used to calculate wire and cable dimensions, which may be back annotated to TransCable. TransCable uses these dimensions to automatically generate manufacturing reports.