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

Challenge: Create the Door Trim Lower Plastic component through the given Class-A surface. To begin with, the tooling axis for the given Class-A Surface should be created meeting the requirements of the draft angle and at the end perform the Draft analysis on the model.

Create the Heat Stakes and the locators considering the design rules.

Inputs:

1.Class-A Surface

2.Position of Heat Stakes & Locators

Class-A Surface

To ensure the connectivity between the surfaces, all surfaces joined using join command.

With this it is concluded that all surfaces are joined properly & there are no gaps between the surfaces.

Using boundary command Class-A surface checked for unnecessary open profiles between the surfaces.

Tooling Axis

To create a tooling axis few steps need to be followed

Step 1:

a. Create a point at Centre of Gravity (CG) of the surface

b. Follow the instructions to create a point at CG

Go to Measure tool bar

Measure --> Measure inertia --> Create Geometry --> Non-associative geometry --> Centre of Gravity --> Ok --> OK.

CG point created for the given Class-A surface.

Tooling direction checked for X,Y&Z axis. Tooling can clear all the surfaces in Y-direction.

Tooling Axis created along Y-axis using the CG point.

Draft Analysis on Class-A surface

Few steps need to be followed to perform draft analysis.

a. View --> Customise view parameters --> Mesh --> Material --> Ok.

b. The go to Insert --> Analysis --> Feature Draft Analysis

c. Click on compass from the direction, drag & drop compass on the tooling axis in such a way that Z axis to be along the tooling axis.

d. Lock the compass using lock command from direction.

e. Click on the surface to see the results.

Draft Analysis on Class-A surface.

Draft Analysis on Final Trim.

Draft Analysis on Dorr Trim with Features.

Class-B surface creation

Class-A surface is off-set by thickness.

Gaps were created. All the gaps were filled using commands like sweep, fill, multi-section surface.

Class-B surface.

Class-C surface Creation

Class-C surfaces created using the boundary of Class-A surface.

Boundaries created & using sweep command drafted in Tooling direction.

Class-C surface.

Class-A, Class-C surfaces joined to perform Final trim.

Final Trim consists of closed surfaces & obtained by trimming Class-A&C with Class-B surface.

All views of solid Door Trim body.

Ribs, Locator & Heat Stake Creation.

Ribs, Heat Stake & Locators created as per design guidelines.

All Views of the Final Output.