Week 8 - Challenge 3 - Switch Bezel Design

Switch Bezel - Class B,C creation

Tooling Direction

The Tooling Direction is basically the direction that the mold pulls apart. The mold is built in two separate pieces, basically. You have a Cavity side and you have the Core side. The Core pulls apart from the Cavity and that is the Tooling Direction.

Procedure

1. First observe the class A surface visually and create an approximate tooling direction (Dummy tooling axis).

2. Create necessary surface lines with the help of intersection curves in perpendicular planes.

3. Bisecting the surface lines in both perpendicular planes will produce to tooling directions in respective planes

4. Finaly bisecting the tooling directions in perpendicular planes give the Final tooling direction we required.

Class B Surface

Class C Surface

Final Body

Tree Structure

Draft Analysis

Draft Analysis was performed for 3 degrees using the tooling direction.