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 a Odd shaped Enclosure with the help of NX advance sheet metal.
Introduction:
Sheet metal is metal formed by an industrial process into thin, flat pieces. Countless everyday objects are fabricated from sheet metal. Thicknesses can vary significantly; extremely thin sheets are considered foil or leaf, and pieces thicker than 6 mm (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 other components.
NX Sheet Metal provides a set of tools within the NX design environment 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.
So, in this project I am going to design a Box Assembly by using sheet metal tools and commands.
Description
The important tools which used during designing of Box Assembly are as follow:
Sketching & Extrude: In this step we will create a base sketch and we will do extrude of it
upto 200 mm
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 20 mm and 90 deg flange on the body.
Unbend: Now in this step we will unbend the sheet metal part
Bead: At base of model, we will create a bead of 3 mm depth.
Hole: Now we have to create a hole of 10 mm through body.
Rebend: Next step is to rebend the part.
Flat pattern: At last, we will create a flat pattern for highlighting the Bend direction, bend radius & bend angle.
Screenshots of Model
Front View
Side View
Isometric View
Top View
Conclusion
While designing a Box Assembly I have understand and learnt different tools such as Extrude to sheet metal, Flange, Bending, Jog & creating hole