Week 8 - Challenge 3 - Coin Holder Design

CREATION OF THE TOOLING AXIS

TOOLING AXIS

It is nothing but the direction in which the mold opens and closes the draft angle needed to be provided by considering this tooling axis.

We can create a tooling axis by using the bisecting method.

BISECTING METHOD

This method is used for the generation of the tooling axis for that purpose first we need to decide the direction of molding and then we create one dummy tooling axis for the reference to the purpose.

In this method, we select the surfaces which can create problems and take intersections in the x and y-direction. By using these curves we draw two lines and then draw a bisecting line from these two lines in the x-direction and y-direction.

If it is done in x-direction then it is called a tooling axis clearing x-direction and if in y then tooling axis clearing y-direction.

After completing this we need to draw a final line bisecting this two tooling axis in the X and Y directions to get our final output.

DRAFT ANALYSIS FOR THE CLASS-A SURFACE

The above image gives us a clear picture of the draft angle associated with the Class-A surface, It is clear that the surface has a draft of more than 3 degrees that can be easily seen in the color scale window that shows green color means having an angle more than 3 degrees.

DRAFT ANALYSIS FOR THE SOLID COMPONENT