Week 5 Challenge : Surface wrap on Automotive Assembly

Aim-Clean up the geometry errors in an engine, transmission, and gearbox and make it an air-tight geometry by merging all the components into one and then performing a Surface Wrapping on it.

Procedure-

Engine-

• Import the engine geometry and start cleaning up the extra surfaces lying in the space.
• After that start deleting the overlapping surfaces on the geometry
• And delete all the unnecessary ring-type structures and make sure that any important structures can’t be deleted.
• Check for single cons and resolve them. Don’t bother with the single cons present Inside the geometry. because in surface wrapping basically concentrates on the outer surface of the geometry.
• Fill every hole-like structure to make an engine geometry an air-tight geometry.

Transmission-

• Import the transmission geometry and clean up the geometry.
• Make sure no single cons or triple cons are present on the outer surface of the geometry.
• Fill every hole-like structure to make a transmission geometry an air-tight geometry.

Gearbox-

• Import the Gearbox geometry and clean up the geometry.
• Make sure no single cons or triple cons are present on the outer surface of the geometry.
• Fill every hole-like structure to make a Gearbox geometry an air-tight geometry.

Merging of the geometry

• Before merging save all the geometries then start merging engine geometry with transmission geometry.
• For merging, FILE-MERGE-CHOOSE THE TRANSMISSION GEOMETRY-OPEN

• Then follow the same steps as above for merging the gearbox geometry to engine and transmission geometry.
• After merging all the geometry fill all the holes that have been on the surface of the geometry or the holes that can play as a leak to stop to achieve an air-tight geometry.
• For SURFACE WRAPPING of a geometry, steps

MESH-ELEMENTS-WRAP-CONSTANT LENGTH-CONSTANT WRAP OCTREE-UNTITLED- MESH-TARGET LENGTH(3mm)-CONTARINTS-TRAI.( Now to compress the pids use the COMPRESS option.(this is because managing and recognising all the pids is a hectic task ) -CONTENTS-COPY- PASTE THE PIDS-RUN.

• Check the length of the node by using a measuring tool to ensure the mesh operation is successfully implemented.

Result-

Merging and surface wrapping of Engine Assembly is done by using the tools in the Ansa platform.

Google drive link-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xI5JBy3zFMGT_kGntSIgpzbJ5Vrl9aAt/view?usp=sharing