Challenge

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

AAbhinav A20 Mar 2023

BRACKET 2

Objective:

The main importance of this project is to model a sheet metal bracket with some advanced features of sheet metal operations like advanced flange, gussets to provide the bracket stiffening feature.

Introduction:

Generally sheetmetal thickness range varies from 0.4mm to 6mm then it is called has sheetmetal,The sheet metal

modelling is used for designing the models like the battery cases,casing for the radiators and also for creating the models that have rectangular or the square shape or the L brackets etc these kind of objects are more convinent for designing the objects.

If the thickness is less than 0.4mm then it is called has foil.

If the thickness is more tham 6mm then it is called has plate.

Design Methodology:

Contour Flange:

This command is used to create a base feature by extruding the sketch along a vector, or adding material by sweeping a sketch along an edge or chain of the edges.

Normal Cutout:

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

Break Corner:

This command is used to create Rounds or chamfers a sharp corner of a tab or flange.

Unbend & Rebend:

Unbend command is used to flattens a bend and a material adjacent to the bend. Rebend command is used to restores an unbend feature to its previous bend state, along with ant features added after the unbend feature.

Advanced Flange:

This command is used to adds a flange along an edge using bend angle or a reference face. The Edge and reference face can be curved.

Gusset:

This command is used to create a stiffening gusset on the part. It is usually made to add strength for the sheet metal part.

Hole:

This command is used to create a hole to one or more solid bodies in a part or assembly with options for Countersunk, Counterbored and threaded.

Procedure: