Advance Sheet metal Design using NX CAD Challenge 1 Casing Design
Tittle of the Project - Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX CAD Challenge_1_Casing Design.
Objective: To design a Sheet Metal casing by using Siemens NX12 Sheet metal application.
Introduction:-
1. SIEMENS NX: NX formerly known as "unigraphics" is an advanced high-end CAD/CAM/CAE, which has been owned since 2007 by Siemens PLM Software.
2. SHEET METAL DESIGN:NX sheet metal Design provides the design professional with a complete set of tools to efficiently create and manage sheet metal parts based
on the knowledge of material properties and manufacturing processes. NX sheet metal design tools incorporate material and bending information, enabling the model to
represent both the formed component and flattened blank shapes.
Design Methodology
STEP1 : create a rectangular tab of dimension 60*50 and thickness of 1mm.
STEP2: create a rectangular cut out of dimension 5*40 using Normal Cut out.
STEP3 : two horizontal lines were drawn at distance of 10mm from the upper and the lower edges of the tab respectively.
STEP4 : bent the sheet using those two lines as a reference.
STEP5 : Flange of length 5mm were added at 90deg at the extreme position of the bend
STEP6: Corners of the flanges were broken with a radius of 1mm using break corner
STEP7: Faces were unbent using unbent feature.
STEP8: 4 Screw clearance holes of M2 size were added to the new flanges.
STEP9 : The specified sketch was drawn on the plan, a dimple was created taking that sketch as a reference
STEP10:4 beads were created using the feature Bead.
STEP11: Re bend the sheet using Re bend feature.
STEP12: A flat pattern view was added using feature flat pattern.
STEP13: Drafting has been done.
STEP14: END
DESCRIPTION
SKETCH - It is a basic of any design.
TAB - it is used to create base feature of a sheet metal.
Flange - it is used to create a extended part of a sheet metal.
UNBEND - This feature is used to unbend the sheet metal taking any one face as a stationary face.
REBEND - used to re bend the sheet metal.
DIMPLE - Used to create pitch up or pitch down surface.
BEAD-Used for giving strength to the sheet metal.
IMAGES
DRAWING SHEET
CONCLUSION:
By this challenge I had learned how to use basic features like flange, tab, break corner, dimple, unbend, re bend etc
LINK OF THE MODEL
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aYLl6u_OAZ_VltmqA1nebsGJ596qyrgu/view?usp=sharing