Week 8 - Challenge 1 - Draft Analysis on a Fan Cover

DESIGN OF HOOD ASSEMBLY AIM:                 To design the hood inner panel and to fix the striker in path of the trajectory of hinge axis. INTRODUCTION:                …

MODELLING AND ASSEMBLING THE YACHT MODEL INTRODUCTION: Yacht is a sailing vehicle or power vessel commonly used for racing, Sailing, or for pleasure. There are various kinds of yachts available based of their propelling modes and the purpose which they are used. Yachts differ from boats by size and appearances. To be characterised…

DESIGN OF AMERICAN CHOPPER INTRODUCTION: In this project we will be modelling the American Chopper model from the sketch. All the parts were modelled separately using the Solidworks part modelling workbench and they will be assembled in Solidworks assembly workbench. Finally, to make the chopper model realistic some of…

DESIGN OF FRONT DOOR TRIM: AIM: To create a door trim solid part along with B side features with CLASS A surface as input. INPUTS: We have skin data for the Lower substrate, Map pocket, Bottle Holder, Arm rest to create solid model. Along with skin data we also have the Master sections of how the parts were joined together…

DESIGN OF INTERIOR TRIM OF B PILLAR B-Pillar trim: The floor of the car is connected to roof with 3 pillars namely A-Pillar, B-Pillar and C-Pillar. The pillar between the front door and the windshield is A-Pillar, B-pillar is the one which is there between the front door and back door, and the pillar between the rear door…

Week 8 Challenge-Door Arm Rest Draft analysis:                 Draft analysis is done to verify whether the part designed can be manufactured or not. CATIA has draft analysis feature where it takes the tooling axis as input and provides the draft…

RIB DESIGN: Ribs are the engineering features which are designed with the plastic parts on the B Surface of the part. Ribs are usually designed to improve the strength of the plastic part without increasing the thickness of the component. These ribs were also used to position the part on its parent during assembling. DESIGN…

DESIGNING THE LOCATORS AND HEAT STAKES ON A DOOR APPLIQUE Locators or Locating Pins:           Locating pins are the rib like structures on the B surface which are used to position the child part with parent part while assembling. These locators were placed in the multiple location on the part…

Coin Holder Design Introduction: Coin holder is a plastic trim part which is usually placed between the driver and co-driver seat. In this challenge we will be creating a solid model of the coin holder with Class A surface as the input. Tooling Axis Creation: i. Main Tooling Direction: In this model the walls of the model…

BACK DOOR DESIGN USING NX CAD Introduction:                 Back door or the tailgate is the door for the luggage cabin. This houses the tail lamp and the wipers and may also houses the license plate in some cases. In case the license plate mounted…

ROOF DESIGN USING NX CAD INTRODUCTION:                 Initially the cars were manufactured without the roofs. Later to protect the passengers from the sun shelter is attached though they can protect from the sun they were not effective against…

DESIGN OF MOUNTING POINTS ON A FENDER SURFACE OF CLASS-A INTRODUCTION:                 Fender is a styling part of a car which is placed above the wheels as a car body. Main function of the is the protect the components in the engine room from the…

MESHING AND PROVIDING APPROPRIATE CONNECTIONS FOR THE REAR SUPENSION AIM: To mesh the components and provide appropriate connections using ANSA for the Rear Suspension model. OBJECTIVES: Isolating the different components and Locking the views. Assigning PID’s to the different components. Creating the shell mesh…

PREPROCESSING OF PLASTIC TRIM COMPONENT USING ANSA AIM:       To mesh IP trim component using ANSA OBJECTIVES: Mid Surface Generation of given model. To generate the mesh for the model as per given quality criteria. Eliminating possible number of Tria Elements and Rotating Quad Elements and Avoiding Tria…

MORPHING THE CAD GEOMETRY AIM: To morph the CAD geometry using various options available in ANSA for Morphing. MORPHING:                 Morphing is the technique which is used to upgrade the existing model by transforming the model without any…

PROVIDING CONNECTIONS FOR THE REAR DOOR USING ANSA AIM: To give appropriate connections for the given model using ANSA. OBJECTIVES: To set PID’s for various components. Getting to know appropriate connections for various parts. Providing connections using Assembly Deck. PROCEDURE: 1.PID SETTING: We have to define…

PREPROCESSING OF A SOLID COMPONENT USING ANSA AIM: To mesh the given Solid model using Preprocessing Software (ANSA). OBJECTIVES: Clearing geometrical and topological issues in the model. Generating Shell Mesh on the Model. Defining the volumes in the model. Generating Solid Mesh on the volumes. PROCEDURE:          …

PREPROCESSING OF HOOD MODEL USING ANSA AIM:             To mesh the given hood model using Preprocessing Software (ANSA). OBJECTIVES: Mid Surface Generation of given model. To generate the mesh for the hood model as per given quality criteria. Eliminating possible…

                                  PREPROCESSING OF PLASTIC COMPONENT USING ANSA AIM:       To mesh the given Bottle Cap (A Plastic Component) model using Preprocessing Software (ANSA). OBJECTIVES: Clearing geometrical and…

DESIGN AND ASSEMBLING CV JOINT AND QUICK RETURN MECHANISM IN CATIA CV JOINT: CV joint is a is coupling which is used to transmit power from the transmission to the wheels at constant-velocity. The joints were made in such a way that they can accommodate the up and down movement of the wheels due to the pits and bumps on…

SCREW BOSS AND DOGHOUSE DESIGN: SCREW BOSS: Screw boss is the feature in which the bolt is bolted while assembling to the parent part. In other words, screw boss is the female part of the bolt where the bolt gets fastened. DOGHOUSE: Doghouse is a support feature for the other engineering features like locating pins, Screw…

CORE AND CAVITY DESIGN: Introduction: The plastic parts were usually manufactured with forming process particularly Injection molding process. In the forming processes the part is formed between two or more dies based on the geometry of the part. In forming processes vacant space is left between the dies which is same…

Challenge 3 - Switch Bezel Design DRAFT ANALYSIS:               Draft analysis is done to ensure the part can be ejected from the tool after manufacturing during any forming process. In this switch bezel model the pocket area is where the problem would raise during the draft analysis.…

Challenge 2 - Base Bracket Design Draft:                  When the part is manufactured by any of the forming process the part should be able to come out of the tool in which it is manufactured without damaging the part and the tool. To facilitate it certain angle is provided…

Challenge 1 - Draft Analysis on a Fan Cover Draft Analysis: Views: Front View: Side View: Top View: Isometric View: Draft Analysis: When the part is manufactured by any of the forming process the part should be able to come out of the tool in which it is manufactured without damaging the part and the tool. To facilitate…

OPTIMISING THE SECTION MODULUS OF THE HOOD INTRODUCTION:                 Moment of Inertia is the ability of the body to resist the change. Moment of Inertia depends on the distance of the mass from the axis of the centroid of the object. To design a structure with higher strength the moment of inertia needs to be higher…

SIGNIFICANCE OF UNDERBODY COATING IN CARS AIM: To know about the coating of the cars and their importance. NEED FOR COATING: Protects against rust and corrosion: Underbody of the car will be highly exposed to debris and water on the roads and most unnoticed part of the car as we cannot be able to inspect the underbody…

RANKINE CYCLE SIMULATOR IN MATLAB AIM:                 To simulate the Rankine cycle in MATLAB and plot corresponding t-s and h-s diagram. INTRODUCTION:                 Rankine…

EXTRACTING DATA FROM THE NASA THERMODYNAMIC DATA BY FILE PARSING IN MATLAB AIM:                 To extract the data from the text file and calculating the Enthalpy, Entropy and Specific Heat for the corresponding local temperature ranges of the…

FINDING THE GLOBAL MAXIMA USING GENETIC ALGORITHM AIM:                 To find the global maxima of the function using Genetic Algorithm. Genetic algorithm is based on the evolution theory proposed by Charles Darwin. Genetic Algorithm provides the…

MATLAB PROGRAM TO SOLVE THE SECOND ORDER ODE AIM: To write the MATLAB program to solve the second order ODE. MATLAB CODE: Main Program: %Program to solve second order ODE clear all close all clc %Inputs b=0.05; g=9.81; l=1; m=0.1; %Initial conditions theta_0=[0,3]; %Time Period t_span=linspace(0,20,200); %ODE [t,results]=ode45(@(t,theta)ode_func(t,theta,b,g,l,m),t_span,theta_0);…

I took around 11 hrs to complete this model

Time Taken for: 1.Uneven thickness component(Switch Panel)                  -3 Days(Around 21-25 Hrs)  2.Even Thickness component(Sheet Metal Component)     -2 Days(16-18 Hrs)