Week 8 - Challenge 2 - Switch Bezel Design

OBJECTIVE:   The main objective of this challenge is to create the Base Bracket Plastic component through the above-given Class -A surface, by giving the 'Tooling Axis' and 'Draft Analysis' to the class- A surface of the base bracket TOOLING AXIS:   The Toolind Direction is basically the direction that the mold…

Back Door:                Backdoor or Tailgate is the hinged door at the rear part of a vehicle and can be moved up or down. It lets us access the boot space or trunk. Parts of Back door assemble – Inner Panel Outer Panel Hinge Mounting Bracket Hinge Inner Reinforcement Latch Inner Reinforcement Wiper Motor Mounting Bracket…

ROOF: Parts of roof : 1. Roof Outer Panel 2. Front Roof rail 3. Rear roof rail 4. Bow rail 1 & 2 5. Centre roof rail with reinforcement rail      An automobile roof or car top is the portion of an automobile that sits above the passenger compartment, protecting the vehicle occupants from sun, wind, rain,…

FENDER: Fender is part of an automobile which is assembled to protect the pedestrians and passengers and other parts of the automobile body from muds stones and other debrisis thrown from tire of the car.Fender are two types: Full Fender: Full fender is a type of fender where it covers upto the front light.It requires…

Fender:              Fender is part of an automobile which is assembled to protect the pedestrians and passengers and other parts of the automobile body from muds stones and other debrisis thrown from tire of the car. Fender - Wheel Arch: Certain gap is maintained…

Section Modulus: Section Modulus is a geometric property used to calculate the bending stresses in a structural member.  Mathematically,  It is defined as the ratio of the moment of inertia of a section about its centroidal axis and to the distance of the extreme layer from the neutral axis.  It is denoted…

AIM: To design Hood outer Panel and Hood Inner panel and provide necessary reinforcements as per the given master sections. To assemble the hinge assembly in the Hood Inner panel. To provide mastic data points as per following the design rules. To provide the trajectory path of the latchet and fix the striker in the Hood…

UnderBody Coating: Underbody coating is usually a dense cladding (often based on rubber) applied uniformly to the undercarriage of the automobile. It is normally sprayed or painted on when the car is just out of the dealership and is clean. But even if you are getting the undercoating applied after a couple of years, it’s…

Benchmarking: Benchmarking is a process of measuring the performance of a company’s products, services, or processes against those of another business considered to be the best in the industry, aka “best in class.” The point of benchmarking is to identify internal opportunities for improvement. By studying companies with…

BUTTERFLY VALVE: Butterfly valves are a family of quarter-turn rotational motion valves that are used in pipelines to shut-off flow. It is often said that butterfly valves can be used to regulate the flow. However, we do not recommend doing this, as it can damage the valve disk and have a negative effect on the sealing…

  4 Bar Quick Return Mechanism: First we have to create the all parts of this mechanism and then assemble this.  Creation of First part: Create the required sketch according to the given dimension. Then pad it  Creation of second part:  Creation of third part:  Creation of fourth part: Creation of fifth part:   Assembly…

INTRODUCTION  MASTER SECTION: Master sections development takes place during feasibility check and concept validation stages of the product life cycle. These are typically the guides for design requirements and which decides the component packaging after the development of the concept design, i.e class A surfaces. …

Overview:Initially, we need to offset the given Door Trim class A surface in the inner direction to the required thickness (here the thickness is 2.5mm). After that, we need to close the patches on the offset surface of the bumper, the patches are formed due to the fillets on the Class A surface. Once all the patches are…

TOOLING AXIS Class-A surface is first analyzed to create the tooling axis. where the molds pull apartin injection molding. Tooling direction is essential for plastic product design as it decidesthe direction for mold separation.To create the tooling axis first we have to check the best suitable direction for tooling by…

1. CREATING TOOLING AXIS -                       The Tooling Direction is basically the direction that the mold pulls a part. The mold is built in two separate pieces, basically. You have a Cavity side and you have the Core side. The Core pulls apart from the…

CLASS A SURFACE :     Check the connectivity of the Class A Surface Ensure that there is no gap between the component, using join command. We can visually check it or by clicking boundary command. It has a boundaries outer. Therefore first check completed.                …

CREATING A TOOLING DIRECTION Considering the Ejection from the cavity of the mould after manfacturing the interior trim must have the nominal 3-degree draft ange. Hence the tooling direction is created by considering the above factor and bisecting method is used. The base surface of the class – A was extracted and…

CLASS A SURFACE Class-A (or 'Strak') is a term used in specifically in automotive design. It describes the final production Class data for the aesthetic parts of the car. The term 'Class A' is often misunderstood, but it's generally seen as the 'Holy Grail' of Class modeling.  The draft analysis of the Class…

PROCEDURE FOR CREATING THE SWITCH BEZEL First, the given styling is checked for any irregularities and if found any then it is corrected by using Trim, Extrapolate, split and Join commands The below image shows the class A surface is clean and no irregularities present, so let's move on to the next step.    …

OBJECTIVE:   The main objective of this challenge is to create the Base Bracket Plastic component through the above-given Class -A surface, by giving the 'Tooling Axis' and 'Draft Analysis' to the class- A surface of the base bracket TOOLING AXIS:   The Toolind Direction is basically the direction that the mold…