Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge_7_ Metal bracket-II

Title of the project –

Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad - Metal bracket-II

Objective –

To obtain a specified sheet metal bracket and to apply various sheet metal feature as per requirement and observing final desired output.

Introduction –

NX sheet metal design incorporates material and process information in sheet metal-specific modelling features: bends, flanges, tabs, cut-outs, beads, dimples, louvers, corner and edge treatments, patterns and other formable features.

Design Methodology/ Approach –

Flow Chart-

Features used –

1. Sketch – It’s the base 2D drawing where it’s drawn on selecting a plane.
2. Tab - It’s base feature part of the sheet metal.
3. Flange -Its extended part of sheet metal obtained by selecting edges.
4. Unbend – this feature unbends the sheet metal part selecting any face as stationary face.
5. Re-bend – It brings back the sheet metal to its original shape.
6. Normal cut out - Cuts material by projecting a sketch onto a model and then cut perpendicular to faces intersected by projection.
7. Break corner – Creating curved corners instead of sharp-edged corners.
8. Advanced flange – It’s a type of flange that can be created on ant type of curved profile.
9. Gussets – It round/ square shaped supports that are given at bends to strengthen the sheet metal.

Various directional views –

Conclusion –

The desired shape of the metal bracket is obtained with various features applied on it.