Challenge

Week 11 - Project - A pillar Design with Master Section

A PILLAR DESIGN WITH MASTER SECTION

OBJECTIVE: To create the A-Pillar Plastic component from the given Class A Surface using the Master Section and also creating the Dog house.

CREATING TOOLING AXIS

Tooling axis is created using the bisecting method.
Extracted the base flat surface of class A and created a reference point.
Intersected the class A along the xy plane created and drawn 2 lines along the sloped faces.
Then created a bisecting line for the 2 lines through the reference point and created the tooling axis.
Published the tooling axis.

DRAFT ANALYSIS ON CLASS A SURFACE

Changed the view mode to Material mode.
Insert>Analysis>Feature draft analysis
Activated the compass and then by dragging the red point, placed the compass along the tooling axis and locked it.
Clicked on the part and analysed the draft angle of component.
Considered the min. draft angle as 3 degree.
The green colour area shows that the component satisfies the given draft angle.

CREATING CLASS B SURFACE

CREATION OF CLASS C SURFACE

Using boundary command created separate boundaries on the edges of the class A surface and used the SWEEP command to create class C.
3 degree draft were given to the edges which were perpendicular to the tooling axis.
And sweep command using the reference surface were given to the other edges.
Then extrapolated the edges and trimed them together to form a complete class C surface.
Then joined the class A and class C surafces together.
After that this class A+C join were trimmed with the class B surface to get a closed component.
Used the boundary command to check whether the component has any open boundaries or not.
Then in the part design workbench used the CLOSE SURFACE command to create a solid out of the component.

CREATING DOG HOUSE

Using the Master section as a reference created the dog house sketch.
Extruded the sketch to create dog house walls and using multi section command closed the rear side of dog house.
Under the part workbench using Thicken commad thickened the walls.
Draft with an angle of 3 degree is given with respect to the Main Tooling Axis.
A base is extracted from class A and offseted it and with other offseted surfaces and trim command created a base shape to be cut from the dog house.
Using the split command in part workbench the material is removed.
Using the Master Section sketch for the inner walls of the doghouse is created.
Then extruded and thickened it and then using boolean operation assembled it to the doghouse body.
Draft is also given to the inner walls of the dog house based on a side core tooling axis created.
Then necessary fillets were given.
Then union trimed the dog house with the main solid component.

DRAFT ANALYSIS ON FINAL SOLID COMPONENT

Draft analysis was performed on the final component in the same method which i used for the draft analysis of class A surface.
And also draft analysis was performed on the Dog house body based on side core tooling axis.

Ship work like this
in your own course.