Car Underbody Coating As we all know while we are sitting inside our car and driving very comfortably, the underbody of the car is always exposed and eventually gets damaged by various road conditions like muddy water, road gravels, salts, road bumps and debris flying up from the road. As our vehicle sustains damages from…

BENCHMARKING IN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY Benchmarking involves a structured comparison between similar products, services or processes on some dimensions of performance. For example, it can be used to compare the availability and delivery of features in a product and in this form often provides the basis of consumer tests…

HOOD DESIGN Introduction Hood is hinged thin sheet which covers and protects the main parts of car like engine. Hood is a critical part of a car because of the frontal crash and pedestrian safety requirements. Also, when a front collision happened, the hood is the component which divert the direction of force acting on…

Fender Design - Wheel Arch Definition The wheel arc is an integrated part of a fender assembly. It is a semi-circular part which is positioned above the wheel of a vehicle. In some countries, it is also called as an inner fender. The most important body change was that the front wheel arch was cut higher into the fender.…

Fender Design challenge A fender is the part of a car, truck, motorcycle, or other vehicles that frames or covers a wheel well. Fenders actually guard the vehicle against the different types of debris that fly off from the road. They are just that – “defenders of road debris.” The fender car part is the…

Section Modulus Section modulus is the direct measure of the strength of the steel. Bending a steel section that has a larger section modulus than another will be stronger and harder to bend.  Section modulus is a geometric property for a given cross-section used in the design of flexural members. There are two types…

ROOF CHALLENGE An automobile roof or car top is the portion of an automobile that sits above the passenger compartment, protecting the vehicle occupants from sun, wind, rain, and other external elements.   AIM - Design of an Automotive Roof    1. OBJECTIVES -  To design Front Roof Rail…

BACK DOOR DESIGN CHALLENGE 1.Objective For a given backdoor styling surface Come up with a design of the inner, outer panel of the tailgate with essential reinforcements and flanges required. To create a complete tailgate by assembling all the components altogether. To perform draft analysis on the various components of…

CHALLENGE 1 - BASE BRACKET DESIGN AIM To create the Base Bracket Plastic component through the given Class-A surface. To begin with, the tooling axis for the given Class-A Surface should be created meeting the requirements of the draft angle and at the end perform the Draft analysis on the model. 1. INTRODUCTION CLASS-A…

SWITCH BEZEL DESIGN- CHALLENGE 2 AIM To create the Switch Bezel Plastic component using the given Class-A surface. To begin with, the tooling axis for the given Class-A Surface should be created meeting the requirements of the draft angle and at the end perform the Draft analysis on the model.   1. INTRODUCTION A…

COIN HOLDER DESIGN - CHALLENGE 3   AIM Create the Coin Holder Plastic component through the given Class-A surface. To begin with, the tooling axis for the given Class-A Surface should be created meeting the requirements of the draft angle and at the end perform the Draft analysis on the model.   1. INTRODUCTION…

BUMPER DESIGN – CHALLENGE 4 AIM Create the Bumper Plastic component through the given Class-A surface. To begin with, the tooling axis for the given Class-A Surface should be created meeting the requirements of the draft angle and at the end perform the Draft analysis on the model. INTRODUCTION A bumper is a structure…

CORE & CAVITY DESIGN - CHALLENGE 6   AIM To create the Core and cavity blocks for the switch bezel design. INTRODUCTION Switch Bezel A switch bezel panel is nothing but a part which consists of the switch panels for the power windows and also has some place to rest the passenger’s hand on it. It is assembled…

Attachment Feature Creation (Ribs & Screw Boss) - Challenge 1 AIM Create the rib for the Drill Handle considering the design rules. INTRODUCTION Ribs and screw bosses are engineering features which are created on the B side of the plastic components. RIBS Ribs are used to strengthen the walls of your mould without…

Attachment Feature Creation - Challenge 2   AIM Create the Dog House for the Door Trim considering the design rules   INTRODUCTION DOG HOUSE Dog house is an engineering feature used in plastic design. Dog houses are used as support feature. Sometimes other engineering features like snaps, locators, screw bosses…

Project 1 - Door Trim Lower with Engineering Features AIM Create the Door Trim Lower Plastic component through the given Class-A surface. Also, to create heat staking and locators considering all the design rules. INTRODUCTION Door Trim Door panels serve as an interface between the interior of the car and the inner workings…

Project - A pillar Design with Master Section   AIM To create an A-pillar using the given CLASS-A surface and Master section. INTRODUCTION Back in the day, cars were mostly made of steel and over the decades lightweight alternatives have increasingly found their way into automobile designs. Current economic and ecological…

Final project – Door Trim Panel AIM Development of a Door Trim panel CAD model considering following inputs as like in OEM and tier1 companies OBJECTIVE Create tooling axis for the given CLASS-A surfaces. Create CLASS B and C surfaces using the given CLASS-A surface. Create solid body part sing the close surface…

Wiring harness design in CATIA V5 - 3D modelling Week 2 Challenge   AIM To define the given connectors & Connector clip cad data as Electrical Connector using Electrical Part design Workbench. Define all the necessary properties of Connectors & Clip.   INTRODUCTION Wire harness connectors and terminals are basic components…

Wiring harness routing & packaging Rules Week 3 Challenge AIM Define the mechanical components electrically and create COT tubes. Prepare the catalogue for the same. INTRODUCTION Cable clamps are accessories for wire and cable.  They are used to bundle, clip, clamp, label, guide, and protect wires and cables. Clamps play…

Wiring harness design in CATIA V5 - 3D modelling Week 4 Challenge AIM Route the following harness layout in Electrical workbench. Make assumption for harness bundle diameters. Use Following connectors as shown in layout diagram. Download connector 3D data from www.te.com DT06-4S DT06-6S DT06-2S DT06-08SA INTRODUCTION Wire…

Wiring harness design in CATIA V5 - 3D modelling Week 5 & 6 Challenge AIM Create two electrical harnesses using the given layout and interconnect them as a single harness assembly, check the bundle continuity, bundle warnings and give annotations to the harness assembly.   INTRODUCTION Automotive Wiring Harness…

Wiring harness design in CATIA V5 - 3D modeling Week 7 Challenge AIM To prepare the flattened view of wiring harness assembly using the Electrical harness Flattening workbench and place it on the drawing sheet. INTRODUCTION Once a product is ready to manufacture, its design must be precise or it risks costly errors and…

WIRING HARNESS DESIGN PROJECT 1 AIM Design and develop the Wiring harness on Given V6 Engine and Prepare flatten view drawing in CATIA V5. Application of all Packaging rules, Industry best practices studied in this course shall be demonstrated in design.   INTRODUCTION A wire harness, also commonly referred to as…

CAR BACK DOOR WIRING HARNESS DESIGN- PROJECT 2 AIM To route the Wiring harness on given car body back door and prepare flatten view drawing in CATIA V5. INTRODUCTION A wire harness, also commonly referred to as a wiring harness, is an exterior sheath used to cover some types of electronic wires. Generally, wiring harnesses…