Week 9 - Project - A pillar Design with Master Section

Objective: The main objective of this challenge is to understand the given master section to create a solid body and B-side features for a given class A surface, by considering all the design parameters.

Master Section: Master sections are the guides for design requirements which decide the component packaging after technical (Styling, Concept or Class-A) surfaces.

Tooling Axis creation:

To create the tooling axis, I used the 'bisecting' line method. Initially, I created two lines on the master section by using 'point to point line' and then I created a bisecting line at the centre of those two lines by using bisecting line option in the line command.

Tooling axis:

Draft analysis for class A surface:

The craft analysis check is performed on the class A surface before we create the solid part from that class A surface, to check whether the given class A surface is drafted properly or not. The draft angle for a plastic component is 0.5deg to 3deg).

Class B surface creation:

To create the class B surface initially, I measured the thickness of the master section (2.5mm). offset the class A surface 2.5mm to the inside direction.

I extracted the edges of the patches, to give as a sweep command's guide curves to close the patch.

Class C surface creation:

To order to create the class C surface, I used the sweep command. I sweep the class A surface edges along with referencing the surface for 4mm inside with 90deg. After the creation of the class C surface, the surface edges are needed to be extrapolated to intersect properly from all 4 sides. I trim the surfaces which extrapolated, to get the closed class C surface. I joined the class A surface and Class C surface to get a single surface of class A+C surfaces. I trim the Class B surface with class A+C surface join, to get the closed surface to create the solid body.

Dog House creation:

• To create the dog house on the B-side, I extracted the lines on the master section and I create a plane to extract the lines concerning the master section.
• I extracted the faces which are required to create the shell for the dog house, and I trim the surfaces with each other as per the master section dimensions.

Master section with Dog house in solide state :

Draft Analysis of DOG HOUSE :

ISOMATRIC VIEW :

Tree Structure: