Challenge

Week 9 - Attachment Feature Creation (Ribs & Screw Boss) - Challenge 1

front view

top view

side view

isometric view

AIM:

  • To Create the Door Handle Component from the given Class-A surface.
  • To Create the tooling axis for the given Class-A Surface meeting the requirements of the draft angle.
  • To Attach B side Features in the component.
  • To perform the Draft analysis on the model.

TOOLS USED:

  • Boundary
  • Join
  • Multiple extract
  • Bisecting line
  • Trim
  • Surface offset
  • Draft analysis
  • Intersect
  • Surface sweep
  • Close body surface

DESCRIPTION:

CREATING TOOLING AXIS -

The Tooling Direction is basically the direction that the mold pulls a part. 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's the Dye line or the Tooling Direction.

  • Open the given CAT part file.

  • Find the correct tooling axis where the material don't interfere with the tooling axis and all the elements can be created.
  • Create an axis system using at the centre of the switch Bezel.
  • Intersect the yz plane with respect to the class A surface.
  • Hide the class A surface and create point to point lines on the suspected drafts.
  • Create bisecting line with the two lines and point to create a tooling axis.
  • BISECTING LINES were used to get the exact medium from the two sides so that maximum positive draft angle can be achieved.

CREATING CLASS B SURFACE

  • Extract the surfaces from the class A using multiple extract and untrim them.
  • offset the surfaces to 2 mm to create the thickness.
  • Trim the extra surfaces using trim command.
  • Insert them into new geometrical set and name it with respective part names.
  • Apply fillets to the model after creating the entire surface.

CREATING CLASS C SURFACE

B SIDE FEATURES CREATION

RIB CREATION

  • Design Principle for Rib Creation

SCREW BOSS DESIGN

  • Design Principle for Screw Boss Creation

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