Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_6_Bracket

TITLE - DESIGNING A BRACKET . 

OBJECTIVE - To design a bracket using sheetmetal workbench of NX cad software . 

INTRODUCTION - Nx cad software is a simple and powerful tool which has wide variety of application in various  industries such as automobile , medical , aircraft etc . using the sheetmetal workbench from nx , we will create the required part 

DESIGN METHODOLOGY - 

1 - Creating contour flange and normal cutout .

2 - Applying break corner .

3 - Unbending and creating bead .

4 - Rebending and creating holes .

1 -TOP VIEW of part .

2 -FRONT VIEW of part .

3 - SIDE VIEW of part . 

4 - ISOMETRIC VIEW of part . 

5 - FEATURE TREE of model . 

6 - DRAFTING of flatpattern view . 

7 - DRAFTING of part . 

DESCRIPTION - 

1 -CONTOUR FLANGE - 

 we create a sketch and then extrude it in a particular direction .

2 - NORMAL CUTOUT - 

This command is used to cut material by projecting a sketch onto a model and then cutting perpendicular to the faces intersected by projection . 

3 -HOLE - 

This command is used to make holes in a part taking points as a input for holes . 

4 - BREAK CORNER -

This command is used to round or chamfer sharp corners of tab or flange . 

5- UNBEND - 

This command is used to unbend the material to create a flat sheet .

6 - CLOSED CORNER  - 

 This command is used to modify two flanges , it closes the corner of two flanges where they meet . relief can also be given to the flanges . 

7 - BEAD - 

This command is a stiffening deature . it stiffens the sheetmetal . it is used to lift the material along contour of sketch that simulates stamping tool . 

8- REBEND - 

This command is used to bend the sheetmetal part that we had previously bend . 

9- FLATPATTERN -

This command is used to create the 2D drawing  view of the sheet metal part . 

10- DRAFTING - 

This command is used to create drafting or detailed drawing of a part.

CONCLUSION - 

We have created a bracket using sheetmetal workbench of catia .