Week 8 - Challenge 1 - Base Bracket Design

Base Bracket

Report on Tooling axis creation and its purpose

A tooling axis is an axis which passes through the body of the part created in the mould.It defines the direction in which the cavity and core move to clamp and clear the part to be created.It can be either the x , y or z axis directions.It is decide by the designer for easy clearance and cost effecctive ness in creation of the mold

In CATIA, we decide th tooling axis to be perpendicular to the flat surface ansd holes of a part as much as possible.Initially we create a dummy tooling axis.Later we check the different surfaces,fillets etc which are perpendicular to the tooling axis . To check any doubtful surface(if whether they can be ccleatred or not) we use the bisecting Method.In this method we select both the planes parallel to the tooling axis and create an intersect with the classA surface an the plane.Now we extend the lines of the surface which may be a hindrance.Later under Lines--->Bisection line--->select both lines---->select the line falling on dummy tooling axis(or next to it).This line becomes the original tooling axis

This above method is the Bisecting Line method for creation of the tooling axis.