CrimpCAD 

Computer Aided Design for your electric cable splices
CrimpCAD™ finds the most compact arrangement and smallest connecting lug.

Crimping is a way to join cables. You insert the cable ends into the openings of a metal barrel called a lug, and crush the lug from the side. Properly done the resulting connection is mechanically and electrically sound.

That depends on the lug being well filled before the crimp. The arrangement of the cables should be as compact as possible, and the lug as small as possible.

With CrimpCAD you can:

  • Quickly draw any arrangement of cables, circular or rectangular.
  • Automatically find the most compact arrangement.
  • Automatically find the smallest lug that encloses that arrangement.
  • Compute the total conductor area, and find the number of fill pins necessary to obtain your minimum required conductor area.
  • Print drawings of the arrangements, and a material list.

    • Download the demo:  Right-click  here  and  Save  to your desktop.

    Butt, Parallel and Terminal Joints

    In a butt splice the cables go in halfway and meet in the center.
    You specify a butt splice with two cross-sections, one for each end.

    In a parallel splice the cables go in all the way to the other end, each set passing the other throughout the lug.
    You specify a parallel splice with one cross-section, since it’s the same throughout.

    A terminal connection is similar to a parallel splice except the cables enter only one end.
    As with a parallel splice you specify only one cross-section.

    General Procedure

    The CrimpCAD window is divided left and right for each end of the lug. You add cables using the top part of the window; cross-section diagrams get shown in the lower part.



    You can move the cables by dragging them with the mouse. Click Pack for the most compact arrangement. Then click Lug for the smallest available lug enclosing both sides. A table comparing cable and pin conductor areas to the lug’s minimum required conductor area appears at bottom. You can add fill pins to make the minimum required conductor area by dragging them from the Fill Pin Corral.

    Each “job” is made of one or more such crimps.  CrimpCAD can handle as many as 20 crimps at once.

    Specs

    When you start the program for the first time there is no specifications file for your cable and lug choices, so it will use default specifications instead. You can then enter your own specifications and save them.








    Download the demo:  Right-click  here  and  Save  to your desktop.

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