Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_6_Bracket

Bracket

Objective-

In this assessment, I have learnt to create a sheet metal Bracket from a drawing sheet by using necessary features step by step in order.

Introduction

In this firstly, I created a contour flange by a sketch  & used normal cutouts, break corners, Unbending, adding holes and bead. This was a simple one but did it from a drawing sheet.

Design methodology-

Description-

Contour flange-

Contour flange is a type where we can get a tab surface and a flange in 1 operation. It just needs a 2d sketch and it can create sheet metal from that sketch in the respective shape.

 

Normal cut-out-

This feature is used for material removal. A part of the contour flange is removed by defining a sketch

 

Break corners-

This feature is used to remove sharp corners and give a smooth round corner of a particular radius. In this bracket, I have used a radius of 25, 30 & 60mm.

Bead-

This is a feature that adds strength to the sheet metal. So to add this feature we need to unbend the sheet metal and then proceed to add a bead of dimensions specified.

 

Holes-

General holes are added to the sheet at 3 positions defined by dimensions. The hole diameters were 20mm.

Images-

Iso view-

Front view-

Top view-

Right side view-

Conclusion-

The model was successfully designed by using a drawing and the necessary steps in sequence.