Challenge

Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_5_Odd Shaped Enclosure

SHEET METAL ODD SHAPED ENCLOSURE

OBJECTIVE

To design a sheet metal odd shaped enclosure and carryout drafting using Siemens NX.

INTRODUCTION

NX, formerly known as “unigraphics”, is an advanced high-end CAD/CAM/CAE, which has been owned since 2007 by Siemens PLM Software.
Sheet Metal Fabrication is the process of forming parts from a metal sheet by punching, cutting, stamping, and bending.
The thickness of sheet metal starts from 5 mmand goes up to 6 mm. Anything above that is a metal plate. The thin sheet metal is easy to form, while still providing great strength.
Drafting is one of the application in NX Sheet Metal used to get 2-D drawings of all the different views of the designed model.

DESIGN METHODOLOGY

DESCRIPTION

Let us see the features and tools used while designing:

1. Extrude – This tool is used to create a solid body taking any sketch as reference on suitable plane.

2. Sheet metal from solid – This command is used to wrap the solid body with sheet metal.

3. Flange - Flange is created using any edge as a reference. Variable length and angle flanges can be created.

4. Jog – Jog tool adds material to a sheet metal part by creating two bends from a sketched line.

5. Unbend – It is used to unbend the previously bended regions.

6. Bead - This feature is used to stamp into the sheet metal taking any sketch as a reference to increase the stiffness.

7. Hole - By drawing points on the sheet metal, taking those points as reference holes are created.

8. Rebend - It is used to rebend the previously unbended regions.

9. Flat pattern - This feature is used to obtain a 2D projection of the flat sheet metal.

VIEWS OF THE MODEL

FEATURE TREE

DRAWING SHEET

CONCLUSION

Sheet metal odd shaped enclosure in NX CAD is created by using the given sketches and procedures.
Flat pattern of the model is obtained and drafting is done.

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