Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad (Metal bracket)

DESIGNING METAL BRACKET 2 USING NX SHEET METAL

OBJECTIVE:

• Designing Metal Bracket 2 in NX Sheet Metal.
• Obtain the draft of the Metal Bracket 2.

INTRODUCTION:

Sheet metals are flat metallic pieces having thickness of less than 6mm. Sheet metals have enormous Industrial as well Domestic use. We can see sheet metal products almost everywhere such as automobiles, aircrafts, containers, roofs, computer cabinets etc. It is very important for Design Engineers to be well worked with sheet metal design.

We are using NX (a mechanical design software) to design our Sheet Metal Bracket 2.

DESIGN METHODOLOGY:

DESCRIPTION:

Sketch - Creates a Sketch on the Plane Specified.

Hole - Adds a hole to one or more solid bodies in a part or assembly with options for counterbored, countersunk and threaded.

Flange - Adds material by sweeping a sketch along an edge or set of edges.

Contour Flange - Creates a Base feature by extruding a sketch along a vector or adds material by sweeping an edge or chain of edges along a vector.

Advanced Flange - It can curve the edge by providing the bend angle and the reference face.

Unbend - Flattens a bend and the material adjacent to the bend.

Bead - Lifts a material along the contour of a sketch that simulates a stamping tool.

Rebend - Restores an unbend feature to its previous bent state, along with any features added after the unbend feature.

Drafting - Provide tools for accurate drawing creation.

Normal Cutout - Cuts material by projecting a sketch onto the material at the right angle Intersection of the Projection.

Break Corner - Rounds or chamfers a sharp corner.

Gusset - Creates a stiffening gusset on the part.

IMAGES:

Isometric View:

Front View:

Left Side View:

Top View:

Right Side View:

CONCLUSION:

In this Project, we learned various sheet metal tools offered by NX such as Advanced Flange, Gusset etc. We obtained a sheet metal part named Metal Bracket 2 using these tools and got command over them. We also obtained draft sheet for our model.