Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_1_Casing Design
Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX -Casing Design
Objective: To design a casing with the help of NX advance sheet metal.
Introduction:
NX Sheet metal provides a set of tools within the NX design environment that allows for simple and fast design of sheet metal parts, dependent on their material and manufacturing process. NX sheet metal design software incorporates material and process information in sheet metal-specific modeling features
- Bends
- Flanges
- Tabs
- Cutouts
- Beads
- Dimples
- Louvers
- Corner
- Edge treatment
- Patterns etc.
- We can also quickly convert solid models to sheet metal components and create sheet metal parts that enclose other components.
- So, in this project i am going to desihn a casing by using sheet metal tools and commands.
Design Methodology:
Description:
The important tools which used during designing of casing are as follow:
- TAB: Create a base feature by extruding a sketch along a vector by a thickness value or adds a material to a plane face
- Cutout: Cutout the model perpendicular to the sketch.
- Bend: Modifies the model by bending material on one side of a sketch line adding a bend between the two sides.
- Flange: Add a flange to an angle to a planar face and adds a bend between the two.
- Break corner: Rounds a sharp corner.
- Unbend: Flattens a bend.
- Hole: Hole command use to create a hole on one or more solid bodies ina part or assembly with option for counterbored, countersunk and threaded.
- Studio spline: Creates spline through defined points. We can change poisitions of points or drag points while the command has been activated.
- Move curve: We can move our sketch entites according to selected referance points, which makes moving sketch objects is very effective.
- Dimple: Lifts an area of the model inside a sketch that simulates stamping a tool.
- Bead: Lifts a material along a counter of sketch that simulates stamping a tool.
- Mirror feature: Used to mirror w.r.t plane or referance.
- Rebend: Restores a bend.
- Flat pattern: Creates flat pattern feature from the formed sheet metal part.
- Base view: Used to create a model view on the sheet.
Drawing Sheet:
Conclusion:
While designing a casing i have understand and learnt different tools such as Tab, Flange, Dimple, Bending, Unbending and many more in sheet metal of NX.