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.
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.
Description
- 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:
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 makes stamping a tool
.- Bead: Lifts a material along a counter of sketch that creates stamping a tool.
- Rebend: Restores a bend
- Flat Pattern: Creates flat pattern feature from the formed sheet metal part.
Screenshots of Model
Front View
Side view
Top view
Isometric view
Part navigator
Conclusion
Successfully designed Sheetmetal casing by using various tools in NX cad.