Week 8 - Challenge 2 - Switch Bezel Design

                                  DESIGN AND DRAFT ANALYSIS OF SWITCH BEZEL

• OBJECTIVE:
• To do Draft analysis and Design the Switch Bezel with the help of Class-A, Class-B, Class-C, and Tooling axis.

1. TOOLING AXIS

• Firstly, I have to create a tooling axis.
• Because draft analysis of the surface is most important.
• So, there are many methods such as the direct method, bisecting method, etc. to find the tooling axis.
• I'm selecting a bisecting method for creating the tooling axis to get accuracy.
• Using, bisecting method I created the tooling surface (refer to the pic below).
• Class-A surface is generally an aesthetic surface of automotive parts of the car (refer to the pic below)

2. CLASS-B SURFACE:

• Class B surface is used for plastic molding purposes. For providing the product, a Class-B surface is used mostly.
• After creating the tooling axis next, I will make the Class B surface.
• Refer to the pic below, which shows the Class-B surface.
• For making a Class B surface, I will use the following command:

1. Boundary: Select the required boundary if required. 
2. Extraction: In this, no boundary is required, so go to extract the flat surface of class A.
3. Untrim: After extrapolating, Untrim those surfaces.
4. Extrapolate: extrapolate those surfaces by 10mm.
5. Trim: trim those extrapolate surfaces to get the desired surface.

3. CLASS-C SURFACE:

• Class C surface generally connects the Class-B surface to the Class A surface.
• Referring to the below pic, Class-C Surface is shown.
• for creating a Class -C surface used the following command:

1. Boundary: pick the boundary for the next operation.
2. Swept: swept the selected boundary with 10mm.
3. Extrapolate: surface can't join properly, so I used to extrapolate those surfaces.
4. Trim: trim those extrapolate surfaces and get a required surface.
5. Join: now join those surfaces with each other and form a single surface.

4. Final Operation to get Switch Bezel:

• Firstly, Select the join operation and join the class A and class c surfaces.
• Trim with those join with class B surface.
• After that, I got the final Switch bezel.
• As the surface is hollow from the inside, for this go to the part workbench and select the close surface.
• Analyzing the output surface with draft analysis.
• So in this way, we got our final design as Switch Bezel (Referring to the pic below).