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

Design and development of Metal bracket

Objective:

The objective of the work is to design and develop a metal bracket using NX cad in the sheet metal applications

Introductions:

A bracket helps to support the load to the structural elements and it is exposed to the various load while moving. Even though bracket were made from various methods, using the metal sheet is quite easy compare to others.

Description

The sketch was drawn using XY plane as shown in figure

The contour flange was used to create a surface based on the profile as shown in figure

And the profile was projected on the contour flange surface and using normal cutout command the surface was reshaped into the profile shape as shown in Figure

And then break corner bend and rebend option are used to cut the sheet metal material as shown in Figure

Further, an advanced flange command is used to blend the curve surface as shown in the figure

Unbend command is used to flatten the surface and hole operation were performed as shown in Figure

Further the normal cutout and advance flange option was used to make the hole as shown in Figure

Gusset was used to enhance the strength of the material and it is shown in Figure

Finally, this model was converted into a solid model for Flattening & Forming analysis