Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_1_Casing Design
Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge 1 Casing Design
Title of the Project: Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge 1 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 modelling features: bends, flanges, tabs, cutouts, beads, dimples, louvers, corner and edge treatments, patterns and other formable features. We can also quickly convert solid models to sheet metal components, and create sheet metal parts that enclose other components. NX Sheet Metal-specific features such as flanges, tabs, jogs, corner conditions, and drawn cutouts & many more along with productivity enhancements such as automatic bend reliefs. So, in this project I anm going to design a Casing by using sheet metal tools and
commands.
Design methodology/ approach
DESCRIPTION:
the important tools which used during designing of cashing are as follow:
TAB:create a base feature by extruding a sketch along a vector by thickness value or adds a material to a plane face
cutout:cuts the model perpendicular to the sketch
bend: modifies the model br bending material on one side of a sketch line adding a bend between the two sides
flnages: Add a flanges to an angle to a planer face and addds a bend betwwen two
unbend: flattens a bend
hole:hole command use to create a hole on one or more solid bodies in a part or assembly with option for counterbored,countersulk,and threaded
dimple: life an area of the model inside a sketch that simulate stamping a tool.
rebend: restore a bend
screenshot of models:
conclusion:
while desiging a casing i have understsand and lernt different tools such as tab, flanges,dimple,bending,unbending,and many more in sheet metal of nx.