Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_2_Box Assembly
Title of the Project: Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge 2 Box Design
Objective: To design a Box 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, cut-outs, 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.
Design methodology/approach:
Description
The important tools used during designing of Box are as follows:
- TAB: Creates a base feature by extruding a sketch along a vector by a thickness value or adds a material to a plane face.
- Flange: Adds a flange to an angle to a planar face and adds a bend between the two
- Cut-out: Cuts the model perpendicular to the sketch.
- Break Corner: Rounds a sharp corner
- Unbend: Flattens a bend
- 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 the sketch that simulates stamping a tool.
- Mirror Feature: Used to mirror w.r.t plane or reference.
- Rebend: Restores a bend
- Base View: Used to create a model view on the sheet.
