Challenge

Week 8 - Challenge 2 - Switch Bezel Design

Requirement:-

Create the Switch Bezel Plastic component through the given Class-A surface. To begin with, 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.

Take the Thickness of the component to be 2.5 mm


Checkpoints

1) To check the continuity of Class A surface
2) Find the tooling Axis of the component
3) Making B surface
4) making C surface
5) combining surfaces and creating closed body

Definitions:-

Class A surface:-
Class A surfaces are those aesthetic/free-form surfaces, which are visible to us (interior/exterior), and have an optimal aesthetic shape and high surface quality.


Tooling Axis:-
The direction in which the mold or core and cavity opens is the tooling axis.


Steps to work

STEP1

Initially check the connectivity of the surface, this can be done by creating boundaries or by simply using the join option such that any openings can be easily visualized.



Tooling Axis creation:

Using the tooling axis created along the x and y-axis, these tooling axes are used for the creation of the tooling axis by a bisecting method where the two lines and point will be selected as inputs.

We check the best possible tooling direction (X,Y,Z ) and find where all faces can be represented using tooling Axis

After choosing the particular direction we create Intersection points on the remaining axis were we get mean point to create the tooling axis.

This intersection can be done by Axis system or thru creating a plane.



we create a Bisecting Line with two line and point to get the output line (Tooling Axis).

STEP 2

Draft Analysis:

Draft analysis is done after determining the tooling axis, draft analysis is used to check whether the minimum draft (3 degrees) is maintained or not.

Compass is used to define the draft direction.
If the minimum draft 3 degree is provided the whole component changes in to green colour





STEP 3

B Surface


Now for creating the B Surface we split the component into 3 parts Bezel surface and walls. By using Extracted Surfaces and then Un trim them along with offset and Extrapolation upon requirement Them trim them to get Final output required surfaces.





Bezel surface creation!




Wall Surface Creation!

Wall creation before without and with offset with above mentioned features working on it!




Base Surface Creation!







Before Filleting edges






Final B surface creation!

Final B surface After triming

the filleting on the surface is given according to measurement using measuring Tool and also considering the thickness inside and outside surface



C surface

For making C surface initially we used the Boundary on the Class A surface




After Swept along downside as follows




Now Using trim tool we combined B and C surface to get the final Closed Body



Before Trim



After Trim


Now using the Closed Surface command in part design created a solid Body !




DRAFT ANALYSIS OF FINAL PLASTIC COMPONENT:

Following the similar steps performed for draft analysis of class-A surface, we obtained the following result

The draft analysis command enables you to detect if the part you drafted will be easily removed. This type of analysis is performed based on color ranges identifying zones on the analyzed element where the deviation from the draft direction at any point, corresponds to specified values.


Tree Structure









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