Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_6_Bracket

Title of Project –

Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad – Bracket.

Objective-

To create a bracket from given 2D drawing and applying various sheet metal features on it.

Introduction –

NX sheet metal design incorporates material and process information in sheet metal-specific modelling features: bends, flanges, tabs, cut-outs, beads, dimples, louvers, corner and edge treatments, patterns and other formable features.

Design Methodology/ Approach –

Flow Chart-

Features used –

1. Sketch – It’s the base 2D drawing where it’s drawn on selecting a plane.
2. Tab - It’s base feature part of the sheet metal.
3. Flange -Its extended part of sheet metal obtained by selecting edges.
4. Unbend – this feature unbends the sheet metal part selecting any face as stationary face.
5. Rebend – It brings back the sheet metal to its original shape.
6. Bead - This feature gives strength to sheet metal part.
7. Mirror Curve – Creating exact mirror of the drawn sketch selecting reference plane or a point.
8. Normal cut out - Cuts material by projecting a sketch onto a model and then cut perpendicular to faces intersected by projection.
9. Break corner – Creating curved corners instead of sharp-edged corners.

Various directional views –

Conclusion –

By creating the above bracket we are familiar with features like sketch, contour flange, bead, bend, unbend, hole etc.