Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_5_Odd Shaped Enclosure
Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge 5 Odd shaped enclosure.
Objective: To design an odd shaped Enclosure with the help of NX advance sheet metal.
Introduction:
Sheet Metal is formed by an industrial process into thin, flat pieces, Countless everyday objects are fabricated from sheet metal, Thickness can vary significantly; Extremely thin sheets are considered foil or leaf, and pieces thicker than 6mm (0.25 in) are considered plate steel or ‘’structural steel’’.
We can also quickly convert solid models to sheet metal components, and create sheet metal parts that enclose the components.
NX Sheet metal provides a set of tools within NX design environments that allows for simple and fast design of sheet metal parts, dependent on their material and manufacturing process. The most common of which is straight brake sheet metal forming,
Description:
The important tools which used during designing are as follow:
- Sketching & Extrude: in this sketch we will create a base sketch and we will do extrude of it up to 200m.
- Sheet metal from solid: In this procedure we will wrap the solid body with sheet metal that means we will convert extrude body into 3mm sheet metal body.
- Flanges: Now we will add 20mm and 90-degree flange on the body.
- Jog: After that we have to create a jog line for adding jog feature.
- Unbend: Now in this step we will unbend the sheet metal part.
- Bend: At base of model, we will create a bead of 3mm depth.
- Hole: Now we have to create a hole of 10mm through the body.
- Re bend: Next step is to re bend the part.
- Flat pattern: At last, we will create a flat pattern for highlighting the bend direction, Bend radius and bend angle.
MODEL VIEWS:
Isometric view:
Front view:
Side View:
Top View:
Bottom view:
Part Navigator:
Drawing sheet:
Conclusion:
While designing a box assembly I have understand and learnt different tools such as Extrude to Sheet metal, Flange, Bending, Jog & Creating holes.