Week 8 - Challenge 1 - Base Bracket Design

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Aim-

Create a 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.

TOOLING AXIS-

The tooling axis of the product tells us the direction of movement where the part is being produced effectively.

STEP-01

Connectivity of Class-A surface checking the connectivity of the surface can be done by creating boundaries or by simply using the join option such that any openings can be easily visualized.

STEP-02

1. Analyze visually for the best possible tooling axis.
2. The dummy tooling axis will be directly created using the point-direction command.
3. Check possibilities (clearances) in all the directions of the axis and find out what the problem creation parts of the component or model are.
4. The clearance check along all the axis directions will be done by creating an intersection along an axis on a plane with the model and constructing two lines in contact with the walls, the line bisecting the two lines and passing through the point will be the tooling axis.
5. Creating intersections and Tooling axis for checking along Y-Axis
6. Using the intersection, lines will be created along the inclined walls. These lines are used for the creation of the tooling axis by a bisecting method where the two lines and points will be selected as inputs.

Draft Analysis:

1. Draft analysis is done after determining the tooling axis, draft analysis is used to check whether the minimum draft (3 degrees) is maintained or not.
2. Compass is used to define the draft direction.

# Class A draft analysis

# Close surface draft analysis

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