Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_6_Bracket

Bracket Design 

Aim :

        To create the bracket sheet metal part by using the various sheet metal tool in NX cad platform.

Objective :

• Design the sheet metal bracket and add features such as bead and holes.

Design approach :

                                              

Design procedure :

         First create the sketch for the main part which is created by the contour flange tool as shown in figure by 3mm thickness and length of 200mm. After the create the sketch for the normal cutout by through all part as shown in figure. 

                  

                    

                    

                     

                   

       Then make the sharp corners as rounded corners by using the tool called Break corner with proper radius value given in 2D drawing file.

                   

                    

                    

        Then the next step is to add the features such as hole and bead so we first need to unbend the part using unbend tool as shown in figure. And next step is create the bead by using the straight line and the radius as 5mm and depth as 7mm as shown in figure.

                    

                    

                     

     Next step is to create the holes in the three points with 20mm of diameter as shown in figure and rebend the part.

                     

                      

Model Feature Tree :

                            

Different Views :

Front view :

                     

Side view :

                     

Top view :

                     

Iso-metric view :

                     

Conclusion :

       Hence the bracket sheet metal is designed as per the 2D drawing of the part by using the various sheet metal tool such as contour flange, normal cutout, unbend, rebend, Bead, Hole in NX cad platform successfully.