Week 9 - Challenge 1 - Base Bracket Design

REPORT ON BASE BRACKET CREATION

1 OBJECTIVE

The goal was to create a base bracket using thegiven design requirements and to transform a surface design into a thick, solid part

2 STEPS PERFORMED

Creation of tooling axis

the tooling axis was essential to ensure proper draft for manufacturing. i used the bisecting method for this purpose

a dummy tooling axis was created at top hole of the part as a reference for the tooling axis. Two key lines which were intersecting each other were used to create a bisecting line that was the optimal tooling axis

-SURFACE CREATION

Using the provided input surfaces, i created b surface and c surface

offset the class a surface by required thickness performed trimming and extrapolation operations to ensure the b surface was properly aligned with class a surface

created boundary edges of the class a surface swept these boundaries to form the side walls

joining the surfaces to create a closed surface using the join tool

-DRAFT ANALYSIS

Used the draft analysis tools from the tools menu aligned the compas with tooling axis checked all surfaces

4 CONCLUSION

The process succesfully resulted in a thickend solid base bracket this design is ready for manufacturing and has been validaet using draft analysis and proper tooling axis creation