AutoCrearTM – a Novel Software Tool for Automatic Creepage and Clearance Analysis

Inhalt:
Electric assemblies must satisfy strong safety regulations regarding creepage and clearance distances in order to prevent hazards caused by electric sparks. However, these distances depend on many complex aspects and due to the absence of adequate software tools, a designer has to resort to manual measurements and rough approximations. This is not only time consuming, but also highly inaccurate and often causes expensive loops in the production pipeline. We present the first software tool which is capable of computing all possible creepage and clearance paths on CAD data. This enables a designer to robustly detect and eliminate all safety violations in the early design stage and thus, significantly optimizes the construction of electric assemblies.