Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_6_Bracket
DESIGN A BRACKET OF SHEETMETAL BY USING SIEMENS NX-CAD
OBJECTIVE - Design a Sheetmetal bracket from drawing using NX-Cad.
INTRODUCTION
Sheet Metal
Sheet metal is metal formed by an industrial process into thin, flat pieces. Sheet metal is one of the fundamental forms used in metalworking, and it can be cut and bent into a variety of shapes. Countless everyday objects are fabricated from sheet metal.
There are six major types of sheet metal material, each with its own unique advantages:
1. Alloy steel.
2. Stainless steel.
3. Carbon steel.
4. Tool steel.
5. Galvanized steel.
6. Aluminium.
Sheet metal is used in car and truck bodies, airplane fuselages and wings, medical tables, roofs for buildings (architecture), and many other applications. Sheets of iron and other materials with high magnetic permeability, also known as laminated steel cores, find applications in transformers and electrical machinery.
In this project, I designed a Bracket of Sheetmetal using Siemens NX-Cad software.
DESIGN METHODLOGY
In this project, we use various Sheetmetal operations or features like, Contour flange, hole, Normal cut-off, Break corner, Bead, etc to design a Bracket of Sheetmetal.
Flow chart of design Box Assembly in NX-Cad
DESCRIPTION OF FEATURE USING TO DESIGN THE BRACKET
Sketch To create a different shape using sketch tool like line, spline, rectangle, circle, arc etc and provide dimensions and constraints.
Contour flange Creating a base feature by extruding alone a vector or create a flange by sweeping a sketch along edge or chain of edges.
Normal Cutout This feature cut material by projecting the sketch onto the model.
Break Corner To create chamfers or smooth corner of the Tab and Flange.
Unbend This feature flattens the bend and material adjacent to the bend.
Bead It lift material along the contour of sketch that simulate a stamping tool.
Rebend Restore the unbend feature to its previous bend feature along with any feature added after the unbend feature.
Hole To create a hole on the solid bodies with options of countersunk, counterbored, thread.
VIEWS
Front view
Top View
Side View
Isometric View
Flat Patterm Image
Draft image
CONCLUSION
In this project, design a Sheetmetal bracket using siemens NX-CAD by some features like Normal CutOff, Contour Flange, Breal corner,etc and then create draft image.