Week 9 - Project 1 - Door Applique Design with Engineering Features
DRAFT ANALYSIS OF DOOR APPLIQUE PLASTIC COMPONENT CREATED IN CATIA
Given class A surface:
Creation of tooling axis:
On visual inspection of the class A surface we can find that the tooling axis will be in Y-direction as it is a simple surface with no major deviations.
Create point on the surface of base of door applique and draw a line along Y-direction through the center point of base.
Draft analysis of the Class A surface:
Draft analysis of the plastic part created:
Click on the feature draft analysis in Analysis tab
Or Go to insert >Analysis > Feature Draft Analysis
Click on the compass in direction row and align the compass along the tooling axis as shown below. Also disable the analysis under running point option in display row in draft analysis tab.
Some times the compass disappears or will be placed far fron the surface, zoom out from the surface and disable and enable the compass to see the compass and drag it to the tooling axis.
Once the compass is aligned lock the compass.
After locking left click anywhere on the surface. It will look as shown below.
The green colour on the surface shows that the entire surface is provided with a minimum draft of 0.5 degrees.
Various orientations of Door applique plastic product:
Various orientations of Counter part body:
Various orientations of the Parts made:
