Week 9 - Challenge 2 - Switch Bezel Design

Detailed Report:

Tooling Axis:

1)By visual analysis, the base surface is the best place for the tooling axis.

2)Created a sketch to intersect the switch bezel surface to the ZY plane

• Extract the base surface.
• BY creating a point at the centre of the base surface using surface type.
• Insert an axis.
• create a positioned sketch in the ZY plane at the point created in the middle of the base surface.
• Intersect the surface into the plane.
• Draw two lines at the inclined lines and create a Bisecting line between those lines.

3)Created a sketch to intersect the switch bezel surface to the ZX plane

• create a positioned sketch in the ZX plane at the point created in the middle of the base surface.
• Intersect the surface into the plane.
• Draw a line at the inclined lines and draw the other line from the middle point.
• The angle difference between the two lines should be 6 deg(min draft angle).
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4)Then draw a bisecting line between that two lines. Use bisecting type line and select the two lines we draw. This is the tooling axis of this surface

Draft analysis of Class-A surface:

• Selected Draft analysis
• Selected compass to define the new drafting direction.
• Select and drag the compass and place it in the tooling axis.
• Select the lock and lock the compass.
• Move the cursor and place it over the A surface and click on it.
• It turned to Green colour. Which indicates surfaces are at an angle of more than 2.8deg

Draft analysis of the final plastic component:

• Selected Draft analysis
• Selected compass to define the new drafting direction.
• Select and drag the compass and place it in the tooling axis.
• Select the lock and lock the compass.
• Move the cursor and place it over the Final solid body and click on it.
• The surfaces that turned Green colour indicate the surfaces are at an angle of more than 2.8deg.
• The surfaces that turned red indicate the surfaces are at an angle of less than 0deg.