Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_6_Bracket
- TITLE
Create ‘Bracket’ from 2D drawing.
- OBJECTIVE
To create a bracket in the sheet metal workbench of NX from the provided 2D drawing.
- INTRODUCTION
NX Cad
NX formerly known as unigraphics is one of the world’s most advanced and tightly integrated CAD/CAM/CAE product development solution. The software has powerful hybrid modeling capabilities by integrating constraint based feature modeling and explicit geometric modeling.
Sheet Metal (SM)
Sheet metal is available in flat pieces or coiled strips that originate from many different metals such as aluminum, brass, copper, steel, tin, nickel, or titanium. It is formed into thin, flat pieces and is one of the most basic materials used in metalworking thanks to its malleable properties that enable it to be cut and bent into a multitude of shapes. Perhaps without realizing it, we are surrounded by a myriad of common objects that are fabricated from sheet metal: from automotive bodies to aerospace fuselages and wings, up to medical tables, sinks, roofs of buildings, and machinery.
There is a significant variation in the thickness of sheet metal; the thinnest sheets are referred to as foil or leaf, and pieces with a thickness greater than 6 mm (0.25 in) are considered plate.
- DESIGN METHODOLOGY
- DESCRIPTION
Contour Flange
Creates a base feature by extruding a sketch along a vector.
Unbend
It flattens a bend and material adjacent to the bend
Rebend
It restores a bend
Break Corner
Rounds or chamfer a sharp corner of a tab or a flange
Bead
It lifts a material along the contour of a sketch that forms a stamping tool
Hole
Adds a hole to one or more bodies in a part or assembly
Flat pattern
Creates a flat pattern feature from the formed sheet metal part
- IMAGES
Front View
Side View
Top View
Isometric View
- CONCLUSION
Thus, a bracket was created in the sheet metal workbench of NX from the 2D drawing
