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 am going to design a Casing by using sheet metal tools and commands.

DESIGN METHODS :

TAB :

Creates a base feature by extruding a sketch along a vector by a thickness value or adds a material to a plane face.

Cutout:

Cuts 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 :

Adds a flange to an angle to a planar face and adds a bend between the two

BREAK CORNER :

To clear the sharp edges

UNBEND :

To flat the bend using unbend

HOLE :

To create the four hole in that flange in 5mm circle

DIMPLE :

To create the sketch and give the dimple

BEAD :

TO CREATE THE CIRCULAR TYPE BEAD

REBEND :

Finally to out a rebend we get a proper output

DRAFTING :

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.