Week 9 - Project 1 - Door Trim Lower with Engineering Features

DOOR TRIM LOWER-ENGINEERING FEATURES
This report demonstrates the complete design of an Automotive Plastic Component – Door trim lower from a given Class-A surface as an input.
Note:

• Thickness of the component is 2.5 mm.
• The component is designed using CATIA P3 V5-6R2021

OBJECTIVE
The aim of this Project is to create the Plastic component DOOR TRIM LOWER from Class-A surface along with creation of TOOLING AXIS. In the end DRAFT ANALYSIS for CLASS-A along with the closed body has also been performed.

INTRODUCTION

TOOLING AXIS:

The line along which the mold (CORE and CAVITY) opens. It decides the direction of two mold half opening or closing. The component should clear the tooling axis in the given specific direction. As a general rule, along tooling axis we must we able to see maximum faces of the component.
There are different methods to create tooling axis. It depends on

• The given surface geometry (face symmetry, surface normal, assembly direction etc)
• Already given direction in input (by customer)

In this case as the body has a flat surface so a line normal to this surface gives the best possible direction of tooling axis. Hence a line drawn normal to the base of door trim lower will be our tooling axis.

DRAFT ANALYSIS:

It is a tool that allows the designer to check in advance whether the part they are designing can be removed easily from the mold being used to make it. A functional part for injection molding must have draft angles that face both the cavity and core sides. This will reduce the risk of damage to the parts and ensure that part can be ejected from the mold easily. When the draft angle is provided the sticking tendency of the part during removal becomes minimum because as the part ejects contact between surfaces breaks which leads to the reduction in friction and easy removal of the component. Generally a 3degree draft angle is recommended on the surfaces and 0.5 degree on ribs and screw bosses.
In CATIA before doing draft analysis first change view mode as material.

PUBLICATON:

Publication is used for easy access of the surfaces or components to work or view them.

PROCEDURE TO CREATE THE TOOLING AXIS

If the component is symmetric about one or more plane then bisection method is best
suitable. But in this case a line normal to base is the easiest and best possible way to create
tooling axis.

CREATION OF CLASS-B SURFACE

By using multi-section, fill, extrapolate, boundary, offset, join and trim features, class-B has
been created.

CREATION OF CLASS-C SURFACE

By using multiple extract, sweep, and extrapolate features class-C has been created.

CREATION OF CLOSED SURFACE

By using trim feature closed surface has been created.

CREATION OF CLOSED BODY
By using insert body and close surface feature closed body has been created.