Week 8 - Challenge 3 - Switch Bezel Design

OBJECTIVE: This challenge intends to

• Create a tooling axis and an initial draft analysis for the given Class-A surface
• Create a B surface
• C surface
• Generate a solid body
• Finally, a draft analysis on the Switch Bezel Plastic component

Tooling Axis creation

Bisecting lines method is used to create a tooling axis for this component. Bisecting lines respectively ZY and ZX are taken because most of the surfaces in the given class A are parallel to the z-direction. Using those bisecting lines tooling axis is created.

Initial Draft analysis for the given Class A

B Surface creation

B surface is the inner wall of the component. The B surface is created by taking the reference of the given surface (Class A). An offset of 2.5mm is used to generate the B surface.

C Surface creation

The C surface is the boundary of the component and also joins the class A and class B surfaces. Here to generate the C surface sweep command using draft angle is used.

Creating Solid body

Using all the above surfaces A, B, and C a closed surface is created, and then using the closed surface operation solid body is generated.

Final draft analysis on final plastic component

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