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 advanced 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 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 methodology/approach
Description
The important tools used during designing of the Casing are as follows:
- TAB: Creates a base feature by extruding a sketch along a vector by a thickness value or adds 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: Rounds a sharp corner
- Unbend: Flattens a bend
- Hole: Hole command used to create a hole on one or more solid bodies in a part or assembly with options for counterbored, countersunk, and threaded.
- Studio Spline: Creates spline through defined points. We can change the positions of points or drag points while the command has been activated.
- Move Curve: We can move our sketch entities according to selected references and reference 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 the sketch that simulates stamping a tool.
- Mirror Feature: Used to mirror w.r.t plane or reference.
- 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.
Screenshots of Model
Front View
Side View
Isometric View
Top View
Attach Detailed Drawing Sheet Image
Part Navigator
Conclusion
While designing a casing I have understood and learned different tools such as Tab, Flange, Dimple, Bending, unbending, and many more in the sheet metal of NX.
