Hood design-Week 2

HOOD DESIGN - CHALLENGE

The different parts of the Hood Design are classified into:

• Hood Outer Panel
• Hood Inner Panel
• Striker
• Hinge

There are many aspects to design of BIWs Hood leading to Weightlessness, Geometrical Accuracy, Aesthetics, Driver Safty, Pedestrian Safty and Ease of Manufacturing. As covered in the Video, here is a brief explanation for all the considerstions.

Hood Outer Panel

Since the hood body was already available. All that was left was the Hemming at the edges and the front and Back reliefs. Starting with the thickness Body the I used the Surface tab's Extrude, Law Extension, Face Blend, Thickness and Extrude: Subtract.

Front Relief

Back Relief

Hemming

Hood Inner Panel

The Emboss for Striker, hinge, Crash-considerarions, Pedestrian-Collision were made for Inner Panel. Mostly Offset Surface, Through Curves and Edge Blend was used to make the embossing. The Hood Master Section sizes was followed correctly.

Assembly

Hinge Axis and Opening Track Are approximately Shown.