Mentor Graphics TransDesign 电气设计

It enables manufacturers to design electrical harness systems and packaging details concurrently, using a mechanical design (3D) environment. TransDesign eliminates the labor and time-intensive manual verification previously required during the engineering process, and allows engineers to share graphical data related to designs through common web browsers.

Benefits and Features：

• From logical schematics to wiring bills of materials
• Full product layout automated design tool and wire synthesis
• Automatic wiring diagram generation
• Interfaces to 3D mechanical tools
• Options and variants management

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTIONS：

• TransCable

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.

• TransLayout

TransLayout provides a design environment for complex systems from concept through to manufacturing support. Early in the design process, system and electrical engineers explore design alternatives for wire harness and cable systems and assess their impact on manufacturing cost and physical space requirements.

• TranSACT

TranSACT generates physical schematics (wiring diagrams) based on logical or physical schematics created using TransCable, and wiring and connector information created using TransLayout. TranSACT uses component placement captured in logical schematics and the physical interconnects from TransLayout to create a set of schematics with the “look and feel” of the original logical design. The resulting wiring diagram includes all physical wires, splices and connectors and their corresponding attributes. TranSACT can also propagate changes made in TransLayout to electrical connectivity, and reflect these changes in the wiring diagram using the original physical schematic instead of the logical schematic. Cosmetic changes and annotations on the original physical schematic are preserved.

• CAT/TransCable

CAT/TransCable provides a tightly integrated bi-directional interface between TransCable, Mentor Graphic’s Design Capture environment, and Dassault Systemes’ CATIA Electrical Design Solutions (CATIA V4) environment.

• TransBridge

TransBridge provides the optimum linking between the electrical design world and I-DEAS 3D packaging. Electrical system design and analysis can be done in TransDesign, prior to the definition of solid models and then synchronized with the mechanical representation of the layout. In this process a topological comparison is done to ensure that the design in the electrical domain is indeed topologically equivalent to that in the mechanical domain. In addition, items mastered in IDEAS (mechanical support and harness dressings) are transferred into the TransDesign toolset and added into the Unified Bill of Materials.

• TransOVM

TransOVM works in conjunction with TransCable, and TransLayout to automate the management of wiring harness content for an entire product program. Wiring design engineers and program managers use TransOVM to document and design the complete option and variant of the electrical distribution system of a product. All options and variants for all the wiring harnesses can be managed from this interface. Using TransOVM’s spreadsheet format, each wiring harness is dynamically linked to the options it supports and the wiring content of that option. Using this dynamic linking the design manager can create new wiring harnesses simply by turning off options, and running the harness generation routine.