Week 8 - Challenge 1 - Base Bracket Design

Submitted by: Syed Rizwan Ali
Course: Automotive plastic design Using Catia V5
Challenge: Week 8 - Challenge 1 - Base Bracket Design

1. A detailed report should be done explaining the draft analysis and the tooling axis creation.

Ans- Select the draft analysis then select the quick analysis mode then select the compass to the tooling axis, after that click anywhere on the Class A surface. A window popup and we can observe there 3 different color variations which means that we have given a draft angle of 3 degree

So, the green color represents the draft is more than three degrees

The blue color represents the draft is between 0 and 3 degrees

The red color represents whether the draft is negative or less than three.

Screenshots for the explanation of draft analysis-
Step 1 Class A Surface-

Step 2 Draft analysis -
Drag the compass to the tooling axis-

the color blue means the compass is upside down and by choosing flip we can turn into green, blue stand for draft angle below 0 degree

Step 3-
Click anywhere on the surface if it becomes complete green which means your draft analysis is correct-

Tooling axis creation-

Now creating the tooling axis by using bisecting line and a dummy axis-
1. open the file which contains the Class A surface, after creating a geometrical set "Tooling Axis" then select the most appropriate position, and in this select a hole.

2. Then create a point in the center of the hole selected then draw a dummy line on the z-axis.

3. After that create a plane on the point created with reference to XY plane direction.

4. Then select the intersect tool that gives the intersection on the Class A surface.

5. Now create 2 lines using the point and direction method as shown below screenshot.

6. the Last step create a bisecting line using the above 2 lines and named it as Tooling axis after that hide the dummy tooling axis-
Have a look at the Screenshots

Dummy tooling and intersection-

Creating 2 lines-

Creating Tooling axis using bisecting line-

Above is the required detailed report on the draft analysis and Tooling axis.
Now we go further to create the final output surface using Class A, B, and C surfaces-
Creating B surface-
RIB1 and RIB 2-

Bae extract-

B Surface in Pink Color

Now Creating C surface using Sweep, Boundary, and join commands-

Final Output Surface- After trimming the B Surface from C surface the final plastic surface will form

Go to part design and make the plastic surface solid to get the desired

base bracket surface component-

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