Fender Design Challenge
Design of fender in Nx cad
Aim
Our aim is to design car front fender from the given skin data in Nx cad.
Introduction
Fender covers the side part of the engine and also prevents the pedestrians from stones, water and other hard material. Fender has wheel arc area which is semi circular area and it also protect the passenger during crash.
Fender consists of mounting area like A pillar, drip area, bumper mounting area, sill mounting area.
In olden days fender was designed in full type, later than it is designed in half type to reduce weight, cost and unwanted material.
So the Fender is in two type full type and half type
- Full type
2. Half type
Drip area
It is a most important area in fender which is attached to the engine housing, Drip area should be placed between or should have minimum clearance of 200 mm from A pillar area and 150 mm from head lamp housing unit.
Drip area has embossed area which will be attached to engine, and it has ribs to strengthen it because to avoid vibration and it is designed from given master sketch
A pillar Area
A pillar will mounted over this area though or by the bolts and over the A pillar windshield will be placed.
Bumper mounting area
It is the region where the bumper will get assembled as well to engine housing, these region are used to protect the passenger during clash and for the great or good look to car.
Sill mounting area
This area will get assembled under or bottom side of the door part by using the fastners fender is connected to body.
Splash cover
It is a region where baffle are placed and it is a wheel arc area to avoid the entry of stone and other foreign material inside car.
Final View of fender
Then whole body is thicken to 0.75 mm
Conclusion
The design of fender has been completed successfully from given skin data.