Benchmarking Benchmarking in the Automobile industry involves a structured comparison between similar products, services or processes on some dimensions of perfomance. Here I'm benchmarking some cars for Pughazhyendhi to purchase for his family.  Here are some cars I just selected for the Pughazhyendhi to purchase…

UNDERBODY COATING Underbody coating is usually a dense cladding (often based on rubber) applied uniformly to the undercarriage of the automobile. It is normally sprayed or painted on when the car is just out of the dealership and is clean. But even if you are getting the undercoating applied after a couple of years, it’s…

CAR HOOD DESIGN New file opened with product type. And added the parts given{ Inner panel, Outer panel, Hinge assembly and Latch} Inner Panel The Inner panel part is constructed from the given Outer panel reference part which is provided. I constructed the Inner panel with three flanges which is offsetted from outer panel…

Section Modulus Section modulus is a geometric property for a given cross-section used in the design of beams or flexural members. Other geometric properties used in design include area for tension and shear, radius of gyration for compression, and second moment of area and polar second…

Fender Wheel Arc Fender is the American English term for the part of an automobile, motorcycle or other vehicle body that frames a wheel well (the fender underside). Its primary purpose is to prevent sand, mud, rocks, liquids, and other road spray from being thrown into the air by the rotating tire. Fenders are typically…

Fender Design First open the fender given as a stp file and save to convert it into a catpart file. Then open the catpart file and join everything in the part. Then using the parallel curve tool, make parallel lines 5 mm from the edges throughout the fender. Then mark the neede points where we need our mount as drip areamount,…

ROOF Prior to designing we need to know about the design consideration needed for the design of roof. which are, Visibility criteria - Inorder to see the front side as well as the rear side view of outside while we are in the vehicle after placing the roof. Head room clearance - After the passengers sit inside the vehicle,…

BACKDOOR According to the given igs file, I converted it into catpart file. The given outerpanel was full of corruption. I repaired it by generative shape design and adjusted the design with almost same shape as possible which looks nicer. Then after repairing, I started to create my inner panel in CATproduct file by starting…

ASSEMBLY WORKBENCH As per the given Drawing links, I have made the equavalent Part models using the given dimensions and then I assembled  them in the way in which they are required to assemble using the Product file. Then after assembling them, I made drafts of them using Drawing file. Here I submit the CATPart files,…

BASE BRACKET CHALLENGE In the given challenge , with the help of the link given of the Base bracket step file , I have made my required surfaces. Firstly , I opened the stp file in the Catia v5 and saved the converted file type. Then I opened the file and start my work.  Firstly I craeted the geometrical set named…

SWITCH BEZEL As per the given Switch Bezel CATPart file, I designed for my needed surface. In the given data, there was Class A surface of the Switch Bezel. By joining all of the surface part together after some repairing I got my needed Class A surface for the creation of the B and C surfaces.Then I made my joined class…

BUMPER CHALLENGE As per the given Class A surface of the bumper, I started to work on my challenge. Initially I vissually checked for the tooling direction of the part and found out it will be in the X direction and drawn a line in the direction of the X component. Then I checked for the draft analysis and got the green…

DOOR HANDLE CHALLENGE As per the given class A surface link, I have converted the stp file into CATPart file and then started to work. Firstly I have made class A surface to a geometrical set named Class A and made the surface to Publication. Then addede new geometrical set named Tooling axis and start to create the tooling…

DOOR TRIM (DOG HOUSE) As per the given Class A of the Door trim , I have started to create its B surface and C surface and create two doghouses it needed. For that, I first created a tooling direction in which axis we can move the mold to move. Then after selecting a direction, I drawn a line in that direction and check…

DOOR TRIM LOWER As per the given class A of the door trim lower, I have determined its tooling axis visualing and checked it by drawing a line in the Y direction using featured draft analysing tool and found  its green in the maximum deviation of 3 degrees. Then I made tooling axis and class A into publication. Then…

A PILLAR DESIGN WITH MASTER SECTION As per the given stp file, I started to work on my challenge. Initially I visual checked the given class A and looks good . Therefor I published it as Class A surface. Then i labelled the class A and master section sketches by creating different geometrical sets and saved the file as…

FINAL PROJECT As per the given files, I have started to work on my project. Initially I was given the file in which all parts(Class A) are in a single catpart file. I seperated the four parts (Armrest, Lower substrate, Bottle holder, Map pocket) . Then I saved the parts in differently by giving its name on the saving file.…

WIRING HARNESS-WEEK 2 3D MODELLING As per the given set of links of electronics components , I have downloaded the igs files of the CAD files and extracted it and converted it into the catpart files and saved.  Initially, I have opened the catpart file of the connector named C-2-1743357-2 and tried to define it. For…

P-CLAMP As per the given link of the P-clamp, I have downloaded the CAD file of the P-clamp and converted it into the CATPart file. Then, I have started to define it electrically. For that , I have defined the geometrical paramaters needed for the definition of the part. I have created entry point and exit point at both…

WIRING HARNESS ROUTING Regarding the given challenge , I have downloaded the igs CAD files of the connectors from the given link. Then I have extraced the files and open it on the CATIA V5 and converted it into CATPart file and saved it.  Then I started to define each of the components as per the steps required .…

WIRING HARNESS CHALLENGE WEEK 5&6 In this challenge, as per the given diagram of the routing of the wiring and position of the connectors, I have started to work. Initially, I have downloaded the CAD data of the connectors from the link given. Then I extracted it and then converted the igs or stp files into CATPart…

ELECTRICAL HARNESS FLATTENING In this  challenge, I started to flatten the product file of routing that I have done in the week 4 challenge. For that, I have opened the product file of the week 4 and parallely I have opened the new product for the flattening process. Initially I have given the flatten parameters forf…

PROJECT 1- ASSEMBLY ENGINE HARNESS CONTEXT In this project, I have started it with respect to the given datas of Engine cad and its needed connectors. By analysing the V16 engine after converting it into CATPart file(Assy. Engine V16 Background) , I have analysed the locations of the connectors , clips and equipments we…

PROJECT 2 - BACKDOOR WIRING HARNESS As per the given link of the Backdoor CAD, I have downloaded it and and converted it into the CATPart file . Then I have Opened a new Product file and added the CATPart file of the Backdoor into it. Then I have added new Product file named Routing inside the Main product file that I…