Week 8 - Challenge 6 - Core & Cavity Design

Create the Core and cavity blocks for the switch bezel designed in the earlier challenge.

SWITCH BEZEL CORE AND CAVITY BLOCK

TOOLING AXIS

• In this object the product can be produced by Z-axis and meets the plastic design concept
• For creating tool axis, we are using bisecting method. It is created by bisecting X-axis line and Y-axis line
• For creating X-axis line we use intersecting command to intersect class-a surface in X direction
• Create the line from intersecting line of surface that is parallel or angular to Z direction
• Bisecting line is made by line created in intersecting line. Now we get X-axis line
• For creating Y-axis line, we use intersecting command to intersect class-A surface in Y direction
• Create the line from intersecting line of surface that is parallel or angular to Z direction
• Hence, we have open surface in Y direction. We are creating a line with angle of 3^o
• Now we got Y-axis and Z-axis. Then we create bisecting line with Y-axis and X-axis.
• The line created is our tooling axis.

DRAFT ANALYSIS

• For this process we use feature draft analysis command.
• Make sure martial mode is in customise material mode and select material in mesh option from view option.
• In draft analysis select the element as our design and select compass from direction dialog box.
• Align the compass on tooling axis and click lock option to avoid change in compose direction.
• Now click display option and give value and colour to measure the draft angle.
• In this process we found draft angle of the object. As draft angle is 3^o for plastic the surface got cleared in this process.

CORE BLOCK

CAVITY BLOCK

PARTING SURFACE AND PARTING LINE

FINAL CORE AND CAVITY BLOCK