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

  TITLE OF THE PROJECT: Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX CAD Challenge_7_Metal Bracket-2. OBJECTIVE: To design a Metal Bracket-ll by using Siemens NX12 Sheet metal application. INTRODUCTION:  Sheet Metal is basically a sheet made out of metal like steel through a forming process called rolling and…

TITLE OF THE PROJECT: Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX CAD Challenge 6- Bracket Design.   OBJECTIVE: To design a Bracket by using Siemens NX sheetmetal application.   INTRODUCTION:  Sheet Metal is basically a sheet made out of metal like steel through a forming process called rolling and the thickness…

  TITLE OF THE PROJECT: Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge 5 Odd Shaped Enclosure   OBJECTIVE: To design an Odd shaped enclosure around a solid part model having the same odd shape by using a command named "Sheet Metal From Solid".   INTRODUCTION: Sheet Metal is basically a sheet…

3D MODELLING AND RENDERING OF BOFORS 40MM AA GUN USING SOLIDWORKS   ABSTRACT The purpose of this independent project is to demonstrate the tool knowledge which is being acquired by me throughout the “Ultimate Solidworks Course”. The methodology and modeling approach used in designing the individual components…

  AIM: Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX CAD Challenge_2_Box Assembly. OBJECTIVE: To design a Box Assembly using SIEMENS NX SHEETMETAL application. INTRODUCTION: Sheet Metal is basically a sheet made out of metal like steel through a forming process called rolling and the thickness of sheetmetal starts from 0.5mm…

  DESIGNING OF SHEET METAL CASING USING NX CAD   OBJECTIVE: To design a casing made out of 1mm thick metal sheet and perform various sheet metal forming operations by using the NX CAD sheet metal application. INTRODUCTION: The NX Sheet Metal application provides an environment for the design of sheet metal parts…

WIRING HARNESS ROUTING ON CAR BACKDOOR ASSEMBLY   AIM: Route the Wiring harness around given context environment of a car backdoor/tailgate assembly.   OBJECTIVE: Route the wiring harness bundle around the car backdoor assembly. Flatten the Geometrical bundle in Wiring Harness Flattening workbench and prepare…

WIRING HARNESS ROUTING ON V-12 ENGINE   AIM: Route the Wiring harness around given context environment of a V-12 Engine.   OBJECTIVE: Route the wiring harness bundle around the V-12 engine environment. Flatten the Geometrical bundle in Wiring Harness Flattening workbench and prepare the drawing of the flattened…

FLATTENING THE WIRING HARNESS ASSEMBLY   OBJECTIVE: To define the mechanical parts electrically and prepare a geometrical bundle. To flatten the electrically defined geometrical bundle using wiring harness flattening workbench. To prepare a drawing of the flattened wiring harness assembly in drawing work bench.  …

ROUTING AND CONNECTING TWO DIFFERENT GEOMETRICAL BUNDLE INTO A NEW PRODUCT FILE   OBJECTIVE: To rout the wiring harness as per the given wiring harness layout. To check the bundle continuity. To interconnect both wiring harness A and B in another product file. To convert the final harness assembly file into IGS file.…

WIRING HARNESS ROUTING   OBJECTIVE: To route the given harness layout in electrical workbench. Make assumptions for harness bundle diameters.  Download the connector CAD data whose series number is mentioned in the given harness layout and use them in the wiring harness routing. To Add protective covering on…

ELECTRICALLY DEFINING BACKSHELLS, CLIPS AND CORRUGATED TUBES   OBJECTIVE: To electrically define the CLIPS OR CLAMS as electrical supports in electrical part workbench. To electrically define the BACKSHELLS in electrical part workbench using the geometrical parameters created in part workbench. To create the corrugated…

DEFINING WIRING HARNESS COMPONENTS AS ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS IN ELECTRICAL PART WORKBENCH   OBJECTIVES: To download the connectors and connector clips CAD data from any of the wiring harness supplier's website ie. te.com. To define the connectors and connector clips as electrical connectors and mountings respectively…

BACK DOOR DESIGN   OBJECTIVE: To design the car back door assembly by taking refrences from the class A surface of the Back door outer panel. To develop the back door inner panel by taking reference from the back door styling surface which is provided to us as an input. To design all the necessary engineering features…

AUTOMOTIVE ROOF DESIGN AND ANALYSIS   OBJECTIVE: To design a car roof assembly along with its constituent parts i.e outer panel, front roof rail, center roof rail, bow roof rail and rear roof rail by taking references from the master section given to us as an input for each part and doing various strength analysis…

  OBJECTIVE: To calculate the wheel arch clearance at required points and check whether the car passes the European Standards. INTRODUCTION FENDER: Fender is a BiW component which is basically a sheet metal frame that is mounted over the wheels of the automobile, its primary function is to prevent sand, mud, stones,…

CALCULATING THE SECTION MODULUS OF THE HOOD ASSEMBLY   SECTION MODULUS: Before geting towards section modulus we need to understand what bending moment is and how we derive the expression of section modulus from the bending equation. AREA MOMENT OF INERTIA: The area moment(I) of inertia is a property of two dimensional…

FENDER DESIGN USING CATIA V5   OBJECTIVE  To design fender from the given input (class A surface) by modifying the class A surface in generative shape design workbench of Catia V5 in order to design mounting features of the fender. To develope drip portion of the front fender using master section data given to…

DESIGNING OF THE HOOD ASSEMBLY   OBJECTIVE: To design hood outer panel and hood inner panel using the class A surface and the master section of the hood assembly as an input. To create embosses and maestic sealant points on the hood inner panel. To assemble all the constituent parts of hood assembly i.e. hood outer…

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DESIGNING A PILLAR USING MASTER SECTION OBJECTIVES To improvise the Class A surface by resolving bad patches and adding flanges to it.  To create A pillar solid model with the help of  improvised class A surface. To create B side features for the A Pillar using the master section given to us as an input. To create…

  UNDER BODY COATING Underbody coating provides long term protection from corrosion to car’s underbody. It also protects parts like internal body panels, frame rails and other inner cavities that are not physically accessible but are prone to corrosion.   BENEFITS Minimizes Sound: It minimizes the…

BENCHMARKING Benchmarking involves a structured comparison between similar products, services or processes on some dimensions of performance. For example it can be used to compare the availability and delivery of features in a product and in this form often provides the basis of consumer tests and reviews. These look at…

DESIGNING DOOR APPLIQUE WITH LOCATERS AND HEAT STAKES OBJECTIVES: To create tooling axis using class A surface of door applique. To create solid part model out of class A surface of door applique and door panel. To create attachments on the door applique models i.e locators and heat stakes. To do draft analysis of the…

DESIGNING OF BOSS AND DOGHOUSE FOR THE CENTRE CONSOLE COIN HOLDER OBJECTIVES To create side main tooling axis and side core tooling axis for the centre console coin holder. To create boss and doghouse on the outer bottom wall of the coin holder. To do draft analysis of the coin holder along with boss and doghouse using…

  CREATION OF ATTACHMENT FOR CENTRE CONSOLE COIN HOLDER OBJECTIVE: To create ribs for centre console coin holder according to the design rules followed by the OEMs To create tooling axis for the centre console coin holder. To do draft analysis of the centre console coin holder. DESIGN METHODOLOGY CREATION OF TOOLING AXIS…

CORE AND CAVITY DESIGN FOR THE SWITCH BEZEL MODEL   OBJECTIVE: To create tooling axis for the switch bezel model. To design core and cavity for the switch bezel model.   DESIGNING METHODOLOGY: CREATION OF TOOLING AXIS The first thing to create the tooling axis is to analyse the class A surface through visual…

 DOOR ARM REST DESIGN AND DRAFT ANALYSIS   OBJECTIVES: To create a tooling axis for class A surface of a door arm rest. To design class B and Class C surfaces for the door arm rest model by taking a class A surface as an input. To create a solid part model of the door arm rest out of class A, class B and class…

  DESIGN AND DRAFT ANALYSIS OF SWITCH BEZEL   OBJECTIVE: The motive of this report is to illustrate the procedures involved in designing  a solid model of Switch bezel using a class A surface as an input and perform draft analysis on this model. INTRODUCTION: In this report we are going to learn how…

DESIGN AND DRAFT ANALYSIS OF CENTER CONSOLE COIN HOLDER   OBJECTIVE: The motive of this report is to illustrate the procedures involved in designing  a solid model of a center console coin holder in a car using a class A surface as an input and perform draft analysis on this model. INTRODUCTION: In this…

AIM: To create a Base Bracket model by using class A surface as an input reference in Catia V5. INTRODUCTION:  CLASS A SURFACE: Class A surfaces are the free form surfaces with zero thickness and shows only the outer aesthetics of a model. The class A surfaces are taken up as an input by the plastic design engineers…

DRAFT ANALYSIS REPORT STEP1: Ensure the class A surface is properly joined from all the edges and there is no gap or discontinuity between them. We can check it by two using BOUNDARY and JOIN command. CHECKING THROUGH BOUNDARY COMMAND: CHECKING THROUGH JOIN COMMAND:   STEP2: Analysing the model by manually interospecting…

  3D MODELLING AND RENDERING OF CRUISING MONK YACHT USING SOLIDWORKS OBJECTIVE To prepare the blueprint of cruising monk yacht using images of handmade sketches of all four views of the predator yacht. To design all the parts of cruising monk yacht by the help of already prepared blueprint. To assemble all the part…

3D MODELLING OF THE AMERICAN CHOPPER USING SOLIDWORKS   OBJECTIVE To design and model all the exterior components of the American Chopper using various designing and modeling tools of SOLIDWORKS. To assemble all the modelled components in order to form complete American chopper model using mating tools in SOLIDWORKS.…