Challenge

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

TTom Thankachan14 Feb 2024

Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge

Objective

Create a sheetmetal racket with a gusset from the given 2D drawing.

Introduction

A bracket is an intermediate component for fixing one part to another. It is used to support the weight, The shape and dimension of your bracket will be determined by the shape of the item it is holding up but will also be affected by the load capabilities and the ease in manufacturing. Keep in mind that strength considerations of metal bracket design are not just functions of the material thickness but of the bracket shape. As a metal part, adding specific features to the bracket can improve strength dramatically.

Design methodology

Description

Contour Flange:
Creates a base feature by extruding the sketch along a vector or add material by sweeping the sketch along an edge.

Normal Cut-Out:
It helps to cut material by projecting a sketch onto the model, cutting perpendicular to the face.
Unbend:
This feature helps to unbend the bent shapes to a flat pattern. In sheet metal the other features like cut-outs and holes needed to be created over the flat configuration. So that feature applied will be normal to a flat surface.

Break Corners:
This feature makes sharp edges to smooth round shape or to chamfer shape.

Hole:
Cut or remove the material with thread pattern on it. For applying the hole feature there should be a specific point, which will be the center of the hole.
Advanced Flange:
Add a flange along an edge using a bend angle or a reference face. The edge and reference face can be curved.

Gusset:
Creates a stiffening gusset on the part.
Flat Pattern:
.It is used to represent the whole component in 2D form. This flat pattern also shows entire features with dimensions.
Screenshots of Model in the report. (Front View, Side View, Isometric View and the Top View)
Front View
Side View