Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_1_Casing Design
TITLE:- DESIGN OF A SHEET-METAL CASING
OBJECTIVE:- Objective of this project is to study and working on different features of NX CAD for making of a SHEET-METAL CASING.
INTRODUCTION:- Sheet Metal is a comprehensive cold working process for metal sheets (usually below 6mm), including shearing, punching, cutting, folding, riveting, splicing, forming (such as car body) etc.
DESIGN METHODOLOGY:-
DESCRIPTION:- Features Used
1. Sketch:- It is a 2D profile that can be extruded, revolved swepted, etc. to create a 3D product.
2. Tab:- Tab command is used to create a base feature or a tab by extruding a sketch along a vector by a specified thickness value. You can also use this command to create a secondary tab if the work part includes existing sheet metal features. You can do this by adding material to existing faces and bend regions of an existing sheet metal part.
3. Normal Cutout:- Normal Cutout is used to command to cut material by projecting a sketch onto the model and then cutting perpendicular to the faces intersected by the projection.
4. Bend:- Bend command used to create a bend in a planar area of the part.
5. Flange:- Flange command used to create a single flange instance or multiple instances by selecting single or multiple base edges.
6. Unbend:- Unbend command used to unbend a portion of the part to construct cutout features, hole features, or deform features across a bend. You can later reform the bend to represent the true formed state of the model.
7. Hole:- Hole command used to add different types of hole features in a part or assembly:
8. Dimple:- Dimple command used to lift an area of the model inside a sketch that simulates a stamping tool. You can create an indentation in a sheet metal part using a sketched section as the dimple outline.
9. Bead:- Bead command used to create a solid body using a path and a cross-section. The cross-sectional shape you define can be swept along a path over any number of objects to create the Bead feature.
10. Mirror:- Mirror command used to create Mirror features across a datum plane or planar surface.
11. Rebend:- Rebend command used to reverse an unbend operation so that the feature that was unbent returns to its previous bent state. Any features added after the unbend operation are properly repositioned during the rebend operation.
12. Flat Pattern:- Flat Pattern command used to create a solid or wireframe flat representation of a flattened 3D FPCD part.
CONCLUSION:- Using above mentioned features I have created this SHEET-METAL Casing.