Automotive Plastic Product Design Using CATIA V5

AIM : To create Closed volume for given class-A surface.

DESIGN METHOD:

1. Tooling axis.
2. Class A surface.
3. Class B surface.
4. Closing Surface.
5. Thickening Surface.
6. Draft analysis.

Software : CATIA V5.

INTRODUCTION :

The Automotive Industry

The automotive industry is an extremely large, diverse, globalized organization encompassing many business facets, employing hundreds of thousands of people all with one goal: to produce a world-class vehicle. This complex structure must always stay one step ahead of its competition with quality, customer satisfaction, and continued excitement built into its products. Automakers conduct marketing studies and host consumer clinics where the public analyzes and tests new vehicle engineering options and styling. Engineers and designers then incorporate this critical information into a vehicle's design. Another important area considered is government safety standards. Most automakers design beyond these safety standards creating safer, stronger, and more reliable vehicles. Designing a vehicle that meets customer satisfaction creates customer enthusiasm and loyalty.

Automotive Interior Trim

The Automotive Interior Trim course concentrates on plastic part knowledge. You will learn in this course how to create plastic parts, and about mold design and the types of molds used for different interior parts. It's helpful to have a basic knowledge of crash standards.

Plastic Fundamentals

This area explains concepts related to plastic industry, common CAD functions used when designing a plastic part, and common plastic terminology. Learning the appropriate design rules when creating plastic parts reduces the design rework required to design correctly a plastic part.

We introduce a process for designing plastic parts in a CAD system, the options to use when designing plastic parts, and why to use specific functions. Following this process helps you concentrate on the design issues of a part and not fumble with the operation of the CAD system.

Plastic Design and Tooling

It's important to understand molding practices and terminology in order to communicate effectively with the tooling vendor. We explain different molding practices, machine types, and design issues.

Interior Trim Case Study

You reinforce the concepts and practical applications explained throughout the course by working through the Radio Face Plate case study. This case study starts by creating the cosmetic shape that is driven by industrial design from IGES data. You recreate this data to make a feature-based CAD model and then add the mechanical features to provide strength and attachment to the other components. After completing the model, you will be tasked to make a series of design changes on the model.

Model :

1. dashboard AC Bezel.prt

Model 2 :

outer_Lid.prt

Model 3 :

Speaker_bezel.prt

Model 4 :

Cover.prt

CONCLUSION : In this way , I sucessfully learned Conversion of A to B surface and Closed Volume of given Surface.