Week 8 - Challenge 1 - Base Bracket Design

AIM: Create the Base Bracket Plastic component through the given Class-A surface. To begin with, the tooling axis for the given Class A Surface should be created meeting the requirements of the draft angle and at the end perform the Draft analysis on the model.

REPORT ON DRAFT ANALYSIS:

Given Class A Surface:

STEP 1: Check the connectivity of the Class A Surface
Ensure that there is no gap between the component, using the join command.
We can visually check it or by clicking the boundary command.
It has 3 boundaries one outer and two inner circle boundaries.
Therefore first check was completed.

STEP 2: Find the tooling axis of the component. The tooling axis is nothing but the mould opens or cavity opens.
Check visually which is the best possible tooling axis.
Check all three axes.
Along x it is possible but expensive and y is not possible.
z is the best possible tooling axis.

Creating a Tooling axis along z:

Therefore the main tooling axis is along the z-axis.
Now perform the Draft analysis using the Featured Draft Analysis tool in the tools.
Then after opening the draft analysis toolbox go for the compass and place the compass aligned to the tooling axis and click on the lock symbol after aligning and further click on the surface.

Now creating Class B Surface:

Intially extracting the right side rib using extract option from Class A surface.

Then perform Extrapolate inorder to increase the length

Now trim the surfaces to required surfaces

Then Offset the surface inorder to get the required thickness

Similary create the left side rib

Now Similarly get the slanted as well as the flat surface and offset it to desired value

And now trim inorder to get the required surface

Now fillet the surface to required amount

Now Creating Class C Surface:

EXPLANATION ON BISECTING METHOD:
Bisecting method is basically use to find the proper tooling axis using the dummy tooling axis. In Bisecting method, bisecting line is used which either bisect the two line or it will show error which means the two lines are parallel to each other. In order to know whether the particular surface is toolable or not we intersect the surface with the respective plane and get a sketch which consist of two lines and with the help of bisecting line option we bisect the line which creates a line at the mid point of the two lines. Like wise we create tooling clearing axis for x and y which will be used to create the main tooling axis using the bisecting line option in in the line comand.