Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_5_Odd Shaped Enclosure

TITLE : Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad - Odd Shaped Enclosure

OBJECTIVE –

• Understanding Advanced sheet metal design.
• Modelling sheet metal part from a solid body.
• Modelling Odd Shaped Enclosure using advanced sheet metal features

INTRODUCTION –

The sheet metal application provides an environment for the design of sheet metal parts used in Machinery, Automotive, Aerospace, Marines, etc. Sheet metal is a metal such as aluminium, brass, titanium, nickel, tin, and copper processed into thin flat pieces like foils, leaves, and plates.

Sheet metals are a valuable asset to industries and low volume production. Many industries are adopting the concept of Design For Manufacturability, or more commonly known as DFM. In sheet metal design industries, DFM helps avoid technical errors in the design process to improve the manufacturing lead times based on the sheet metal thickness chart and preceding calculations.

DESIGN METHODOLOGY / APPROACH –

DESIGN DESCRIPTION –

MODEL NAME - ODD SHAPED ENCLOSURE

SKETCH –

SOLID BODY –

EXTRUDE

SHEET METAL FROM SOLID BODY –

Builds a sheet metal model that takes its shape from collection of planar faces.

FLANGE –

Adds a flat flange at an angle to a planar face and adds a bend between the two.

JOG –

Modifies the model by lifting material on one side of a sketch line, adding a flange between two sides.

UNBEND –

Flattens a bend and the material adjacent to the bends.

ADDITIONAL FEATURE : BEAD –

Lifts material along a contour of a sketch that simulates a stamping tool.

ADDITIONAL FEATURE : HOLE –

REBEND –

Restores an unbend feature to its previous bent state along with any features added after the unbend feature.

FINAL MODEL –

FLAT PATTERN –

Creates a flat pattern feature from the formed sheet metal part.

ORIENTATION VIEW : FRONT

ORIENTATION VIEW : RIGHT

ORIENTATION VIEW : ISOMETRIC

ORIENTATION VIEW : TOP

FOUR VIEW LAYOUT –

DRAWING SHEET –

CONCLUSION –

• Modelling of sheet metal part on SiemensNX sheet metal workbench.
• Creation of Odd Shaped Enclosure from a solid body.
• Advanced sheet metal features addition in the model.

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