T wing design using legality box and split surface& defining tolerance values

T Wing Design using CATIA V6 3D EXPERIENCES

I designed a T-wing with modularity on CATIA V6. Upon designing, a Legality Box to check on measurements defined by FIA regulations were used. I also defined clearance values between two modules as well as fixing points.

To create modularity I created a split surface that would cut the shark fin in to two piece. The female module serve as the base of the T-wing .

I designed the split surface as a 2 stepped tool (blue one below) so T-wing is fitting like a sleeve on 4 surfaces rather than 3 surfaces of the shark fin. Since T-wing meant to be a symmetrical device, only left hand side of the part hence cut is designed to mirror in the later steps.

Splitting tool

Sharkfin’s first module that is about to become the left hand side of the module two fixing points are located in case I want to add more wings to the design in the future.

Next: Multiple sections of airfoil cross section wireframes as well as guidelines with splines to create a multi-section surface. Airfoil cross-sections has Leading edge, leading edge angle ,trailing edge, trailing edge angle and chord length was used to create specific airfoil cross section.

After Uniting the base and the wing, I defined mating surface tolerance as 0.1 mm and for neighboring surfaces 0.9mm as seen below. Next, I simply created a symmetry along ZX plane and then united RHS and LHS modules with a final Legality Box check project is done!

T Wing Design using CATIA V6 3D EXPERIENCES

I designed a T-wing with modularity on CATIA V6. Upon designing, a Legality Box to check on measurements defined by FIA regulations were used. I also defined clearance values between two modules as well as fixing points.

To create modularity I created a split surface that would cut the shark fin in to two piece. The female module serve as the base of the T-wing .

I designed the split surface as a 2 stepped tool (blue one below) so T-wing is fitting like a sleeve on 4 surfaces rather than 3 surfaces of the shark fin. Since T-wing meant to be a symmetrical device, only left hand side of the part hence cut is designed to mirror in the later steps.

Splitting tool

Next: Multiple sections of airfoil cross section wireframes as well as guidelines with splines to create a multi-section surface. Airfoil cross-sections has Leading edge, leading edge angle ,trailing edge, trailing edge angle and chord length was used to create specific airfoil cross section.

After Uniting the base and the wing, I defined mating surface tolerance as 0.1 mm and for neighboring surfaces 0.9mm as seen below. Next, I simply created a symmetry along ZX plane and then united RHS and LHS modules with a final Legality Box check project is done!

Glickenhaus Road Legal Race Car

Aero Surfacing of an F1 race Car Body with CATIA V6 3D Experience