Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_5_Odd Shaped Enclosure
Title of the Project:- Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_5_Odd Shaped Enclosure.
OBJECTIVE:- To design an odd shaped enclosure and create a draft of it using Siemens NX Sheet metal application.
Introduction:- NX Siemens is software used for the modeling , aerospace , simulation, sheet metal. It is very well known for the User friendly environment and a user friendly tools which makes the work more easy and accurate . We will design the Odd Shaped Enclosure model in the sheet Metal modelling.
Sheet metal is one of the fundamental process in metal working in which sheet metals are converted to bends for the required purpose. Sheet Metal Modelling is very much necessary in the most of the industries like Aerospace, Utensils, and covering Cases for all electrical components. Sheet metal Modelling now a day had become more easy due to the Use of different software’s .In this we are also creating a Sheet Metal of Odd Shaped Enclosure using NX Siemens.
Design methodology:- Flow chart
Description-
Extrude:- Creating a features by extruding the sketch.
BEND:- Bends sheet metal model through a line.Modified the model by bending material.
Flange:- Add flange on an edge and create a bend between two walls. The flange can only be made on a straight edge.To activate command.Click on command on (When sheet metal application activated.) “ Home => Bend Group => Flange”Activate command from “Menu => Insert => Bend => Flange”
Unbend:- It allows all the bend to unbend sheet.It is necessary to choose the bend, it can also to box select all the bend at once.
Hole:- Hole feature is just like the same as the put a hole in the sheet eith respective measurements of sktch.
Dimple:- Dimple in the sheet metal which will make more rigidity and stregth to that flat sheet component.
Beads:- Beads are the features added in the sheet metal to increase the stffness of the component.
Flat pattern:- Create a flat pattern from the formed sheet.
Procedure-
Create a solid body that encompasses the interior volume.
extrude it in 200 mm.
And Wrap the solid body with sheet metal application.
Using the sheet metal from solid. Select the 5 web face and select the 4 bend faces.
Add flange select the edge which want to be flange and the length 20mm with angle 90 degree
Ubend the sheet metal to add features such as dimple, hole, beads etc...
To create a hole select the point where to be hole.
Front view
Top view
Isometric view
Left view
Attach Detailed Drawing Sheet Image-
CONCLUSION:- In this Odd Shaped Enclosure design we have made use of the different sheet metal tools and feature knowledge to create the desired modelling from the use of the solid model by using sheet metal operation.