Door Arm Rest Week 8 Challenge

Aim: To make a solid body of the given door armrest

Given Class A surface

Draft Analysis for the Class A

Main TA

Side TA

Tooling Axis

Main tooling axis was made in the Z direction and the side core tooling axis was made in the Y direction.

Main and side tooling axes made

Making Class B surface by offsetting given class A to 2.5mm

Class C surface creation by sweeps from edges of class A

Sweeps of 90 deg were made from the edges using "reference surface".

Joining class A and class C together

Making class C sweep for the lower part separately

Trimming class B with the separately made sweep for the lower circular area

Filling the gaps on the class B surface using "multi-sections surface"

Revised Class B

Final trim of class A-class C with revised class B

Making it a solid body

Draft Analysis for Solid Body

Main TA

A slight adjustment was made to the main tooling axis to clear the rear portion. This was done by adjusting the compass and giving the main TA line direction to be the same as the compass direction.

Side TA