Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_5_Odd Shaped Enclosure

TITLE: ODD-SHAPED ENCLOSURE

OBJECTIVE:

Desigining an odd shaped enclosure with the help of NX CAD tool which is applied through the component.

INTRODUCTION:

Sheet metal is a metal formed by an industrial process into thin, flat pieces. It is one of the significant and basic form used in metalworking and it can be cut as well as bent into the variety of shapes.

Different metals such as brass, copper, aluminium, tin, steel, etc can be made into sheet metal. Sheetmetal is generally used in automobiles, wings as well as in other utensils. To manufacture all these in different designs and drafting in the specific way by a manual drawing can't be possible. So, the design tools are better options and object modeling can be done very easily.

DESIGN METHODOLOGY:

DESCRIPTION:

Here in, various tools/ features are described which are used for the modelling for Odd-shaped enclosure.

• Sketch: This is used to create the basic sketch of the specific design on any desired plane.
• Extrude: It is used to convert the sketch into solid model as per design requirements and also we can adjust its length as well.
• Sheet metal from solid: In this feature, the solid model is converted into sheet metal part.
• Flange: Flange works as a bend feature along with extra material that can be added adjusting the length of the flange.
• Jog bend: With the help of curve drawn, we add bend in the sheet metal part as per the design requirement.
• Unbend: This feature help us to analyze sheet metal part fully. It will the make the whole design into simple sheet metal plate where we can add any shape or adjustments if required which ensures smooth function of operations.
• Beads: Generally used for strengthening the sheet metal part.
• Hole: On the sketch requirements, this feature is used to make whole in the sheet metal part and also comes along with different types of specification of screws.
• Rebend: The feature is used when our sheet metal design part is ready for the production process after all confirmations and eradicating all errors.

• Drafting: It is used to provide dimensions as well as views of the designed part to the manufacturing team.

ODD SHAPED ENCLOSURE MODEL:

FRONT VIEW

SIDE VIEW

ISOMETRIC VIEW

TOP VIEW

DETAILED DRAWING SHEET:

CONCLUSION:

So with the help of NX CAD tool, in this challenge, i learnt application of various advance features applied on the sheet metal part together.