Author: Satya Ranjan Dolai

Mr. Satya has an experience of 8 years in the field of automotive product design and validation using multiple CAD tools like CATIA, SOLIDWORKS etc. He has worked on PLM tools like SAP PDM, SAP APM and SAP ECM. He is with EDS Technologies working as Application Support Engineer and provides technical support and trainings to customers on CATIA.

During designing a rubber component, multiple factors need to be taken care of. These factors are as listed: material considerations with required technical specifications and also as per applicability and function, radius and wall thickness, gate location in mould, rib inclusion, mould shrinkage and draft. Basic Design Aspects (Wall Thickness, Radius, Draft) While designing rubber components, some…

Boolean operation is an important feature in CATIA V5. Types of Boolean operations include Assemble, Add, Remove, Intersect, Union Trim, and Remove Lump. Assemble The Assemble command basically works considering the polarity of the solid bodies. One may be interested to know what actually is the polarity of a body. In simple words, it can be said…

Plastic part design consideration plays a significant role in designing and manufacturing a plastic component. Whenever a Product Designer designs a plastic part, it is important to take care of factors such as the moulding process, selection of material, mass manufacturing process and overall area of the part around the functional need by keeping the design intent…