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:
Depending on the material and production process, NX Sheet Metal offers a set of tools within the NX design environment that enable quick and easy design of sheet metal parts. In sheet metal-specific modelling elements such as bends, flanges, tabs, cuts, beads, dimples, louvres, corner and edge treatments, patterns, and other formable features, NX sheet metal design software contains information about materials and processes.
We can easily design sheet metal parts that surround other components and convert solid models into sheet metal components.
Flanges, tabs, jogs, corner conditions, drawn cutouts, and many more NX Sheet Metal-specific features, along with efficiency improvements like automatic bend reliefs.
Thus, utilising sheet metal tools and commands, I will construct a casing for this project.
Design methodology / approach
Description
The important tools which used during designing of Casing are as follow:
- 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: Rounds a sharp corner
- 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, countersunk, and threaded.
- Studio Spline: Creates spline through defined points. We can change positions of points or drag points while the command has been activated.
- Move Curve: We can move our sketch entities according to selected reference 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 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
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.
Plz Note : I was having software issues in which i was unable to give bead command ,i have drawn the sketch but bead was not working i have also taken technical help but was unablr to do and in dimple command i was ableto give 3 mm minimum thickness to the part
