Week 8 - Challenge 3 - Switch Bezel Design

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Isometric:

Front:

Side:

Top:

Modal tree:

Creation of tooling axis:

First, the pulling direction of the part is decided based on the Class A surface, and to create a tooling axis out of it, we have created intersection lines for the part in the Class A surface for the surfaces highlighted in blue.

Using a 3d bisecting line, we have created a tooling axis using two dummy tooling axis which we created using the surface intersection. The tooling axis for the part is shown in the axis highlighted in orange.

Feature Draft analysis:

Draft analysis has been checked for the solid modal to check the manufacturability of the part and to match the design standards of a plastic product.

Using the tooling axis, which was created using the Class A surface, we have checked the draft analysis for the switch bezel. The results shown in green explain that the part is manufacturable by following all the plastic design guidelines.

Conclusion:

Based on the results plotted using CATIA V5 it is evident that the Switch Bezel designed using CATIA is manufacturable and it follows all the design guidelines required to build a plastic part.