Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_1_Casing Design
Casing Design
Objective: To design a Sheet Metal model of Casing by using Nx CAD tool.
Introduction:
Casing: A casing is a substance or object that covers something and protects it.
Sheet Metal:Our everyday lives are influenced by sheet metal, whether it be in the places you'd expect like heating and cooling systems, or the places you'd never think of, such as medical equipment.
The term “sheet metal” refers to any metal that can be formed into flat pieces of varying thicknesses. Thick metals are called plate. Metals used in the sheet metal industry include cold rolled steel, mild steel, stainless steel, tin, nickel, titanium, aluminum, brass, and copper. Using specialized tools, sheet metal workers cut, roll, bend, and shape these pieces to make a wide variety of objects. Examples of where sheet metal can be found or used include:
TOOL: Nx CAD Software of SIEMENS
Design Methodology: FLOW CHART
Features Useds:
- Sketch: the term "Sketch" refers to draw sketch, with a desire values on the selected planes.
- Tab: It helps to create a tab on selecting sketch by adding desire thickness value which converts sketch to sheet metal
- Normal cutout: It helps to cut a portion of sheet metal which is formed by shetch
- Bend: The term "Bend" refers that can be form a bend on sheet metal with required values
- Flanges: It helps to add flang on the edges as same as bend, but the only diff is it changes the length of extra meterial
- Break corner: It is used to make sharp edges into smooth round by giving radius
- Unbend: It is used to flattern the bended sheet metal
- Holes: It is used to create a holes which hepls in further assembly parts with screws, revits etc
- Dimple: It is used to draw a dimple on seleting a curve
- BEADS: It is used for strengthning the sheet metal
- Mirror: It mirrors the feature with help of center axises
- Rebend: it helps to re-bend the flattern sheet metal which is ready to production
- Drafting: It hepls to explain dimensions and views which is easy for manufacturing team
Casing design views
Isometric view
Top view
Side view
Front view
Flattren view
Drafting
Conclusion: To design "casing design" in Nx cad software, gained the knowledge of using sheet metal