Flattening and Forming

FLATTENING AND FORMING

INTRODUCTION

Flattening and forming are used to make a sheetmetal flat and to regain all its sketches with respect dimension when it is reformed.

PROCEDURE

Create a sketch and extrude it.Thickness of the sheetmetal is given as per the requirement.Select the flattening tab from flattening and forming dialog box,select the tangent faces of the model and give the orgin and direction for the flattening.Sketch is created on flattened material.Now forming tab is choosen to create reforming of the model. Sketch that created on flattening resemblems in part model as well.Operation such as trim can also be done the sketch on the part.

The sketch is created based on the dimension and the sketch is created for extrude.

EXTRUDE

The sketch is created, exit the sketch mode.Use the extrude command and select the sketch for the extrude, mention the height of the extrude.

FLATTENING

Choose the flattening and forming command to open the dialog box,select the flattening tab, the face of the body is selected, select the orgin and vector direction to create the flattening.

FORMING AND REUSE

Forming and reuse command is used to form the part of the body again.A sketch is created on flattening part which would resemble on the exact part.The forming is used to form the exact part and the sketch created on the flattened surface.

TRIM SHEET

Trim sheet commend is used to trim the sketch on the sheet which is created while flattening them.

CONCLUSION

This is way to make flattening and forming in NXCAD