Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using Siemens NX - Designing a sheet metal casing.

  OBJECTIVE To develop the hood inner and outer panels considering the safety, functionality and manufacturability, following the industrial standards. ABSTRACT Body in white (BIW) is the stage in automobile manufacturing in which a car body's frame has been joined together, that is before painting and before the…

RENDERING USING AUTODESK ALIAS   Objective: In this challange, the task is to render some models we did earlier using Autodesk Alias. Rendering is done through switching to the 'Visualize' option available under the control panel.  We can select the whole surface and double click on the material we want to assign…

                                                               Photorealistic rendering  

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NOTE: I did this small project as a part of ENAPTER's contest conducted on GRABCAD (Published on March 08th 2021). Link to my project: ENAPTER ISLANDER 'ENAPTER_ISLANDER' : as the name indicates, this concept is for isolated communities around the globe - Such as people living in islands, ships, yachts, submarines etc.…

Fender is the American English term for the part of an automobile, motorcycle or other vehicle body that frames a wheel well (the fender underside). Its primary purpose is to prevent sand, mud, rocks, liquids, and other road spray from being thrown into the air by the rotating tire. Fenders are typically rigid. Sticky…

OBJECTIVE To calculate the section modulus of the hood and to modify the design for better srength of the hood assembly. THEORY Section modulus is a geometric property for a given cross-section used in the design of beams or flexural members. Other geometric properties used in design include area for tension…

BENCHMARKING Benchmarking involves a structured comparison between similar products, services or processes on some dimensions of performance. For example it can be used to compare the availability and delivery of features in a product and in this form often provides the basis of consumer tests and reviews. These look at…

UNDERBODY COATING Underbody coating provides long term protection from corrosion to car’s underbody. It also protects parts like internal body panels, frame rails and other inner cavities that are not physically accessible but are prone to corrosion.The underbody coating that is most commonly used on cars in India…

                                  OBJECTIVE To develop Class A surface and master section input of a car interior B pillar provided into a functional product design following the OEM design standards using CATIA V5 Surface workbench following…

                            OBJECTIVE Here I received class A surface of a car door’s plastic trims. My objective is to develop the class A surface received into manufacturable  product design following the OEM design standards using CATIA…

OBJECTIVE To develop Class A surface input of a car centre console coin holder provided into a product design following the OEM design standards using CATIA V5 Surface workbench. ABSTRACT The project report deals with the steps and procedures followed while creating a plastic centre console coin holder for cars designed…

OBJECTIVE To develop Class A surface input of a car door applique  provided into a product design following the OEM design standards using CATIA V5 Surface workbench. A car door applique is usually used in the door panel to improve the aesthetic look of door panel. As most of the plastic parts are injection moulded…

OBJECTIVE To develop Class A surface input provided into a product design following the OEM design standards using CATIA V5 Surface workbench and to ensure that the product is manufacturable by injection molding. ABSTRACT The project report deals with the steps and procedures followed while creating a Door arm rest…

  OBJECTIVE To create a car door switch bezel using CATIA V5 and to perform the draft analysis of the same. METHOD Here the class A surface of the door switch bezel was provided as in OEMs. I created a class B & class C surfaces from the class A. Then I created a solid body of 2.5 mm uniform thickness using Class…

CATIA V5 - DRAFTING WORKBENCH Here I used CATIA V5 Drafting workbench to create drawing sheets for all the 15 models I created using CATIA V5 Part workbench. Drafting workbench of CATIA V5 was very easy to use and we can quickly create drawing sheets.  CLICK ON THE LINK TO DOWNLOAD ALL THE DRAWING SHEET PDFs EXERCISE-1…

CREATION OF BASE MOUNT BRACKET USING BOOLEAN OPERATIONS (Render of  Base mount bracket ) A Boolean operation is similar to what is taught in Math, in fact this principle is borrowed from mathematical principle. It allows us to add, subtract geometries or simply find the intersection between 2 or more geometries. "Add",…

OBJECTIVE The objective of this project is to design a butterfly valve and apply GD&T to it's components and final assembly using Siemens NX. INTRODUCTION  A butterfly valve is from a family of valves called quarter-turn valves. In operation, the valve is fully open or closed when the disc is rotated a quarter…

OBJECTIVE The objective of this project is to design a sheet metal bracket using NX sheet metal workbench. INTRODUCTION In mechanical engineering a bracket is any intermediate component for fixing one part to another, usually larger, part. What makes a bracket a bracket is that it is intermediate between the two and fixes…

OBJECTIVE The objective of this project is to create a sheet metal bracket using Siemens NX sheet metal work bench. INTRODUCTION Sheet metal brackets are widely used for mounting various objects or components. Such brackets are used in automobiles, various machineries, house hold purposes etc. More over, Sheet metal components…

OBJECTIVE The objective of this project is to create an odd shaped sheet metal enclosure using Siemens NX sheet metal workbench. INTRODUCTION Sheet metal is formed by an industrial process into thin, flat pieces. Sheet metal is one of the fundamental forms used in metal working, and it can be cut and bent into a variety…

OBJECTIVE The objective of this project is to design a sheet metal Box assembly using Siemens NX sheetmetal workbench. INTRODUCTION Sheet metal is formed by an industrial process into thin, flat pieces. Sheet metal is one of the fundamental forms used in metal working, and it can be cut and bent into a variety of…

OBJECTIVE  Recently I attended an online course called Mechanical Engineering Design; Sheetmetal Design - Udemy. Course covered the essential theoretical and practical knowledge required for designing sheet metal. By attending the course I got some ideas about the common processes, materials and the properties…

MODELLING SUNSEEKER PREDATOR 108 YACHT USING SOLIDWORKS OBJECTIVE: To model various parts of the 'SUNSEEKER  PREDATOR 108' yacht and to assemble them using Solidworks software. INTRODUCTION A yacht is a craft used for pleasure and sport. The name comes from the Dutch word jaght, which translates as ‘hunter’,…

MODELLING AN AMERICAN CHOPPER & IT'S COMPONENTS USING SOLIDWORKS OBJECTIVE: To model an American chopper bike using solidworks and to create some rendered images of the same. INTRODUCTION: This project report is about how I created an American chopper after modelling it's components and assembling it using Solidworks.Here…