Week 9 - Project 1 - Door Applique Design with Engineering Features

1) Objectives

*) To create heat stakes & locators for the door applique component considering design rules.

2) Requirements

*) Class A Surface

*) Tooling Axis

*) Part Thickness

3) Procedure

A) Creation of Tooling Axis

*) Create the tooling axis for Class A surface which meets the requirement of draft angle.

*) The following are the images of Draft analysis of Class A surface along Tooling Axis

B) Class B & Class C Surface Creation

*) Create Class B Surface by offsetting Clas A by 2.5mm & also create Class C Surface

*) Join Class A & Class C together & further trim with Class B to get plastic component.

*) Use Closed surface to get solid plastic component.

*) Following are the images of Class B & C & final llastic component.

*)Following are the images of Draft analysis for the door applique plastic component

C) Creation Locators & Heat Stakes

i) Locators

*) locators are the attachment/fixing features which in fixing a component at defined positio in an assembly.

*) Make sure the tip of all locators are at the same height from the surface to which they are attached.

*) Give min. 0.5° Draft Angle for all the faces pf locators

*) Chamfer the entry face of the locators.

*) Consider min. 0.1mm of Clearance between hole and the locator.

ii) Heat Stakes

*) Heat stakes are the fixing feature attached after assembly.

*) The height of the heat stakes should be lower than the locators.

*) Give clearance of min. 0.5mm with the connecting feature.

*) Following are the images of heat stakes and the locators

4) Conclusion

*) Locators and Heat stakes are created for the Door Applique plastic component considering all design rules and it is meeting the requirement of draft angle.