Draft Analysis on a Fan Cover

SECTION MODULUS CALCULATION AND OPTIMIZATION     AIM By using the section of the Hood design, calculate the section modulus. Also come up with a new section that has an improved section modulus compared to the previous one.      THEORY Section modulus is a geometric characteristic for a given cross-section…

Under-Body Coating and its purpose     As we know the automobiles we use will have to go through several types of climates, road conditions, temperatures and have to deal with different types of external forces and impacts. An automobile is not designed to be run on a particular fixed road. It will have…

  Aim For the given roof styling, create an ASSEMBLY by developing the essential flanges for the outer roof and creating the reinforcements, and carryout essential calculations to ensure the strength of the roof.   Theory The roof or the top most portion of the car is basically there to protect…

FENDER Fender of a car is the part which protects the car from foreign unwanted particles such as dust, mud, water of all types of chips from the tyre from being entered into the engine bay or stopping this same chip from being thrown towards pedestrians. A good design fender will do all this along with being pleasing…

WHEEL ARCH AREA CALCULATION    FENDER  Fender of a car is the part which protects the car from foreign unwanted particles such as dust, mud, water of all types of chips from the tyre from being entered into the engine bay or stopping this same chip from being thrown towards pedestrians.   The above…

  Hood design   Objective To design inner panel with all the required things like reinforcements embosses, mastic sealant allotments, and provisions for the hinge and latch and to design the outer hood panel with hem. SOFTWARE USED: CATIA V5   Theory The hood of a car is basically the cover that covers the…

BENCHMARKING It’s a process of determining the quality of a product of a company by comparing deeply with the similar products of different companies. This will give the company an idea about how their products performs with its competitions in the market. Benchmarking also gives the company an idea about the places their…

Advanced sheet metal design using NX CAD. Challenge 1 – Casing design.   Objective. To design a sheet metal casing as per the data given in NX CAD. Introduction. In this challenge, a sheet metal casing is designed using the NX Cad software. NX CAD provides the tools and environment to design sheet metal components…

  1.SIMULINK MODEL OF A DOOR BELL USING SOLENOID BLOCK . Aim To make a solenoid block using solenoid blocks. When the switch is closed the electromagnet should receive electrical power from the battery and pull the metal arm to hit the bell to produce the sound.  The switch is closed for 2 seconds and then released…

  AIM Development of door trim using CATIA from the given class A and master sections, and performing draft analysis on each part along with the creation of  B side attachment features.   THEORIES AND CONCEPTS RIBS Design Rule for space between ribs.   Ribs should be spaced so that the steel between…

AIM To create a coin holder with Dog house, ribs and screw bose and to perform draft analysis.    THEORY   Screw bose and dog house design   SCREW BOSE           Scew bose attachment is used for holding the screw with the model or locating the fixing position of the screws.…

  AIM To create the rib  for the center console coin holder considering the design rules.   THEORY Design Rules for Rib creation     Nominal wall thickness of the plastic component should be 3 mm. A deviation of ±30$ from the wall thickness is accepted. Ideal draft for a component is 3 degrees.…

  Aim  To create the core and cavity blocks for the switch bezel.   Procedure   Step 1.  Import the switch bezel which we designed in the previous challenge into the catia workbench.   Step 2.  Create a new geometrical set and extrapolate the class A for about 10-15 mm    …

AIM To create the Switch Bezel Plastic component through the given Class-A surface. 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.  A solid part should be created out of the closed surface with a thickness…

      Aim  to create the coin holdr plastic componet through the given class A surface and carryout draft analysis on the model to make sure all the requirements are met.     Procedure     Step 1     Import the given class A to the…

Aim To create the locators and heat stakes on the door applique  body made from the given class A, following all the design standards and performing draft analysis on the body.   Theory   Design Principle.   The design of this part will be carried put by following the 3-2-1 principle.   3-2-1 Principle.…

AIM To create the B pillar model with the attachment features by following the given class A and the master section provided with it.   PROCEDURE   STEP 1 Import the given class A to the cata workbench   STEP 2 After inspecting the class A , fix a good tooling direction and make a tooling axis in reference…

AIM TO ASSEMBLE A QUICK RELEASE MECHANISM AND CV JOINT BY MAKING ITS PARTS FROM THE GIVEN DRAWINGS .   PROCEDURE USING THE DRAWINGS DIFFERENT PARTS ARE MADE USING PART WORKBENCH AND GENERATIVE SHAPE DESIGN WORKBENCH AND AFTER MAKING THE SOLID PARTS, THEY ARE ASSEMBLED TOGETHER IN ASSEMBLY WORKBENCH BY MAKING APPROPRIATE…

Aim  To write a program in MATLAB to simulate the forward kinematics of a 2D Robotic arm   Theory    FORWARD KINEMATICS   Forward kinematics deals with the equations for a robot to find out the position of the end effector for different values of the joint coordinates. Now , converting the obtained…

Solving ODE   Aim   To write a program that solves a second degree differential equation. This second degree differential equation represents the equation of motion of a simple pendulum with damping. Also generate an animation describing the simple pendulum motion solved from the ODE.   Theory Simple pendulum…

GENETIC ALGORITHM   Genetic Algorithm   Genetic Algorithms or GAs are basically a set of search algorithms that runs based on Charles Darwin’s ‘Theory of Natural Selection’. A common use of GAs is to generate high quality solutions for search and optimization problems.  Natural selection…

Objective    To write a program on MATLAB to extract datas of different species to calculate their specific heat , enthalpy and entropies from NASA thermodynamic data file. Also calculate the molecular mass of every species and   plot the graphs of the outcomes as well.   Description   In the data…

AIM: To create the tooling axis for the given Fan cover model meeting the requirements of the draft angle and perform the Draft analysis on the model.   PROCEDURE: STEP 1 Load up the Fan Cover IGES part file in Catia  STEP 2 Check there is no gap inside the component. Can be check visually or can use  JOIN…

AIM To create the Base Bracket Plastic component through the given Class- A surface and also perform draft analysis on it at the end.   PROCEDURE   Step 1   Import the given Class-A surface model in Catia workbench Visually check and fix a proper tooling direction Check whether the model has a continuous…