Door Arm Rest Week 8 Challenge

AIM:

Creation of Door Arm Rest component through the given Class-A surface and perform draft analysis on the model. and ADD Thickness of 2.5mm.

OBJECTIVE:

The objective of the challenge is to create a Door Arm Rest design along the solid part body from class A surface in CATIA surface workbench and part design.

• To create a class B & C surface for the given component.
• To form a tooling axis.

1. INPUT CLASS A SURFACE:

2. TOOLING AXIS DIRECTION:

The Tooling Direction is basically the direction that the mold pulls apart. The mold is built in two separate pieces, basically. You have a Cavity side and you have the Core side. The Core pulls apart from the Cavity and that's the Dyeline or the Tooling Direction.

• analyzing the model visually to see the most efficient side suitable for the tooling axis from the image below image.

• Extract the surface of the class-A
• untrim the extracted surface
• make a point on the surface
• create a line using Normal to surface along Z-axis

• creating a Y-axis tooling
• create a point and create an axis line as per normal to the surface.

3. Class-B surface:

we directly offset the class A surface by 2.5mm to create a Class-B surface and do a Patchwork for some surface not occurs in Class-B.

• Join the Multi-section surface to Class B offset to complete.

4. Class-C surface:

Now taking the boundary from the class-A surface and smoother the curve to avoid multiple sections.

Sweep the boundary from class A surface with help of sweep commend with reference of tooling axis and surface.

Joining the sweep with class A surface

• now trim the join with Class B to form a closed boundary surface.

• After trimming the Switch Bezel surface will look like.

• The solid form of Class-A, B & C surface.

5. Drafting analysis on the solid part body:

• After creating the solid body we will perform the draft analysis of the whole part body.
• First, change the parameter to material mode and then go to perform draft analysis Go to Insert > analysis > feature draft analysis.
• Click on the compass icon & align with the tooling axis.

Draft analysis of Class A surface Z-axis tooling direction

Draft analysis of Class A surface Y-axis tooling direction

Draft analysis of Solid part Z-axis tooling direction

Draft analysis of Class A surface Y-axis tooling direction

various orientations (Isometric, Front, Side, and Top View):

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