Week 8 - Challenge 1 - Base Bracket Design
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:
CLASS SURFACE:
STEP 1: Check the connectivity of the Class A Surface, Ensure that there is no gap between the component, using join command.
We can visually check it or by clicking boundary command.
STEP 2: Find the tooling axis of the component. The tooling axis is nothing but the mould opens or cavity opens.
Check the which is the best possible tooling axis.
Now creating Class B Surface:
extracting the right side rib using extract option from Class A surface. Then perform Extrapolate in order to increase the length
Now trim the surfaces to required surfaces. Then Offset the surface in order to get the required thickness. Same create the left side rib
Now same get the slanted as well as the flat surface and offset it to desired value
And now trim in order 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 tool able 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 midpoint of the two lines. 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 command.
