Week 8 - Challenge 2 - Base Bracket Design

Door Trim Panel   Introduction: The Door Trim is the Plastic component serves as the interface between the sheet metal part of the door panel. The trim panel is placed inside the automobile. Different parts such as arm rest, Switch Bezel, Map Pocket and Substrate panels are included in this plastic trim panels. The…

Quick Return Mechanism A quick return mechanism is an apparatus to produce a reciprocating motion in which the time taken for travel in return stroke is less than in the forward stroke. It is driven by a circular motion source and uses a system of links with three turning pairs and a sliding pair. Quick return is…

B Pillar Design using Master Sections and class A Surface The body of an automobile is made of a structure that is just the same as that of a house. It has similar components, which include the roof, the pillars, and the floor. The car pillar in the vehicle stands in the near-vertical position, which supports the…

 Door Applique Design with Engineering Features The main aim is to create Door Applique solid boady and create Locators and Heatstakes. Heat Staking: Heat Stakes are created on the door applique to join the Applique with other door attachments via heat staking process.  Heat staking also known as thermoplastic…

Design and Draft Analysis of Screw Boss and Dog House for Centre console Coin Holder  Screw Boss: Bosses are used for the purpose of registration of mating parts or for attaching fasteners such as screws or accepting threaded inserts (molded-in, press-fitted, ultrasonically or thermally inserted).The wall thicknesses…

Rib Design Ribs are created in the product to provide support and strength to the designated part regions. Ribs are the alternative to improve the strength of the product without increasing the thickness, these are usually created and assembled on the B surface of the part. The ribs can be added to the part before or after…

Core & Cavity Design for Switch Bezel The Draft analysis of the switch bezel is shown below. The green highlighted part have a draft angle of 3 deg and red have negative draft. Here the highlighted green area is the core section and the negative draft section will be the cavity of the mould. The draft analysis assist…

Coin Holder The First Step is Class A Surface creation. The surface are joined together using Join command to create class A, the created surface is then checked for any gaps and boundarries.   The next step is tooling axis creation. For this step a point is created at the centre of the bottom base of class A and…

 Door Arm Rest The first step is to create the class A surface from the given surfaces by using join command. After joining check for any boundary or openings using boundary command once the class a creation is done we can publish the class a surface. The next step is to create the tooling axis. Using the intersecting…

Switch Bezel Design The First step is to join the different surface to form the class a surface and making sure there are no boundary or gaps. Once Class A is created it is published by the following steps Tools>Publication, this is done for easy access of the class a in the tree structure. After the creation of class…

Draft Analysis on Base Bracket Design The first Stage is Check for any gaps or boundaries in the Provided surface and Once it is clear the surfaces are joined together to form the Class A surface. Class A surface is outer surface which is supposed to be aesthetically appealing. Once the Class A Surface is created…

Draft Analysis on a Fan Cover Draft Angle: Draft Angle or Engineering Draft is the degrees of taper provided to the part perpendicular to the parting line. It is very important to provide a necessary draft as it depends on the outer structural integrity of the molded part during the ejection process.  If the…

Section Modulus The section modulus of the cross-sectional shape is of significant importance in designing beams. It is a direct measure of the strength of the beam. A beam that has a larger section modulus than another will be stronger and capable of supporting greater loads. In case of Automobiles while …

Hood Hood also know as bonnet is a hinged cover that are sometimes held by struts to keep the engine bay from external elements that may ruin the same. Usually it is easily able to open the hood for Engine inspection or oil check, In the open condition the hood is supported by a support rod which is a rigid structure…

Bench Marking   What is Bench Marking? Bench marking is the quest for meeting ambitious targets for a product or an idea by observing and learning about the things happening in the same business. The idea of industry bench marking is to look out for various interest of customer services, sales, employee engagement…