Sheet Metal Bracket Design

Sheet Metal Bracket Design

Objective -

To create Metal bracket design using NX Cad

Introduction

Sheet metal is a metal forming process through various industrial process like bending, rolling, deep drawiing, etc. into thin metal pieces. Here we are designing such Sheet metal part using NX sheet metal workbench. NX sheet metal tools used to create this design are Contour flange, sketch, Unbed, rebend, Bead, Hole, Break corner, Normal cutout & Flat pattern. Design methodology used to create this cad model is described below.

Design Methodology -

Description -

Tools/features of NX sheet metal work bench used to crete this cad model described here.

Sketch - It is used to create 2D sketch. Here, it used to create Contour flange then beadn and the to create Holes

Contour Flange -It used to create base feture or secondary feature of a sheet metal part by extruding a sketch created along a particular vector

Normal Cutout - With this tol we can remove some portion of the sheet metal part by creating or projecting sketch on to the particular face of the part. We can choose to keep intersecting portion or to remove

Break Corner - It used to give fillet or chamfer to the sharp corners of the sheet metal part

Unbend - Used to flatten the sheet metal part in order to create some complex feature on the sheet metal part which are not possible to create in it\'s originial position.

Bead - It used to create emboss over the sheet metal part from open loop/closee loop sketch created over that particuar face/plane in order to increase strength locally

Rebend - It used in ordeer to get back part in it\'s orginal position

Holes - Holes can be created ont he sheet metal part by specifiying point os the face the part by using sketch tool

Front View

Top view

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Side view (LH)

Side view (right)

Isometric view

Drawing Sheet

Conclusion -

Thus by using various tools of NX sheet metal work bench we have completed the design of Sheet metal bracket