Week 4 Challenge

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Tooling 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.

Approach to Create Tooling Axis - Take a Point on the surface

Create an Axis System

Create a Line using Point and Direction method.

Tooling direction for Class A with 10 deg draft

Adjusted the tooling direction

Draft Analysis of Lens Class A surface

with 10 degree draft

Parting line-

A parting line, in industrial casting of molds, is the border line in which draft angles change direction. One can check the parting line in the mould or product which divides the two half, i.e; the core and the cavity of a molded part. It is sometimes a starting point for the mold parting surface.

Approach to Create B surface

Take an offset of B-surface with 4mm offset value.

Check surface quality and to repair, Extract the boundry

Create Mutisection surface

B surface Join

Approach to Create C Surface

• Sweep the boundry of Class A surface to create Class C surface

Join of A, B and C surface

Closed Body of lens

Applying Fillets

Approach to Create Parting Line

• To create the parting line, extract the boundry of thickened body as shown in below image:-

Parting Line