Challenge

Switch Bezel Design

SWITCH BEZEL DESIGN

Creating Final Tooling Direction (Axis):

For obtaining the final tooling direction, we will consider all the 3 axes and view the part along them.
We extract the bottom surface and take a point at its center. Insert an axis system at this point with all the 3 axes along the original directions.
After viewing the part in different views, we can conclude that direction along Z axis is appropriate for our tooling axis.
For that we will consider tooling clearing along both X axis and Y axis.
For X direction tooling clearing, as shown below, we take intersection of the given surface body along YZ plane of the new axis system.

Then we extend the lines in intersection that are inclined to Z axis as shown below.

Thus, the bisector line obtained is the X direction tooling clearing axis.
Now for Y direction tooling clearing, we take sketch in XZ plane and take intersection of surface body along XZ plane.
In that we draw a line along the inclined surface of intersection and one more line such that it is 6 degrees to the first line drawn. It will look something like as shown below. Turn the first line to construction as it may not be required later on.

Thus, the line obtained is the Y direction tooling clearing axis.
Now, we create a line by bisecting these 2 lines (X and Y direction tooling clearing axes). Thus, we obtain the final tooling direction and axis along it.