My Sheetmetal Practice Work

[mahtab_msa]

learnt Pro Sheetmetal from a couple of tutorials and modeled some floppy drive parts for practice ...


Well i dont have any knowledge of practical sheetmetal designing , but learnt a few things using Pro E


I used an old floppy drive to measure dimensions


can someonegive me some advise on practical design approach of sheetmetal parts? and any good tutorials and books to learn pro sheetmetal ?





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[atul_bvp]

Hi!! Really nice work!!





Can you please send me the tutorials of sheetmetal if you have any??

 

[sanjeevkar1]

 

[pradeeppe]

send me tutorials....... if u have time ..........

[email protected]

 

[SmWave]

For someone who hasn't got much practical design experience, you did a nice job with the case. How are you making the formed features: bridges, rounded ridges, etc. Are they solids or are you using Pro/Sheetmetal? Best way to think about designing sheetmetal is to think of it as if you were trying to bend all the forms from a single flat sheet. You can do some funky things in Pro/E that really aren't manufacturable, but if you keep it simple the rest will come with experience. Go to a sheetmetal shop in your area and get some "hands-on" experience there. Good luck.

 

[mahtab_msa]

hi everybody


sorry for late reply... and thanks for the appreciation

@SmWave .... Iused die and punch in pro sheetmetal to create these form features. well i was successful in creating 3 or 4 form features ... but could not create 2 simple features ... i think that isbecause of GREEN surface and WHITE surface concept. and i think i didnt really understand it

well i have a question: Is Sheetmetal for mechanical guys or electronics guys....Because I read that sheetmetal is used in almost every electonic appliance ... so being a mechanical engg student, will it be benficial for me to learn Pro Sheetmetal ?

 

[telecomguy]

Here's a simple example of design considerations you should consider when working with sheetmetal: http://www.profilesmagazine.com/p32/driscoll.html


In answer to your last question, it all depends what industry you are working in. I'm in the telecom industry (duh!) and yes, the majority of my design time is spentin ProSheetmetal (telecom cabinets, small enclosures, mounting brackets, buss bars, formed card guides, etc.)


It's pretty hard to imagine an industry that doesn't have some type of electronics involved so you'll probably needto design insheetmetal at some point, unless of course you're designing snow skis, and even then,I would design alaminatedski in sheetmetal...


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[sanjeevkar1]

mahtab_msa wrote


learnt Pro Sheetmetal from a couple of tutorials and modeled some floppy drive parts for practice ...


Well i dont have any knowledge of practical sheetmetal designing , but learnt a few things using Pro E


if you have just learned pro/e sheetmetal and have noknowledge of sheetmetal designingand still you made such a nice model then buddy you are just genius (i hope you understand what i mean to say

 

[mahtab_msa]

Well i think i dont really understand what you meant, and i dont knowif it is such a nice model, but I do know that i modeled it after learningPro / Sheetmetalfrom a tutorial ( spent 10 hours) and it took me almost 10 hours to model it.

 

[arrichar]

All that looks really good. I would recommend thinking about the green surface as the driving surface and the white as the result of a thicken. Your parts look good, and as far as design goes it's nice to have things set up to minimize the number of punches needed. One punch can do multiple holes and form features, and then one bend can put most everything into place. Good job.
Aaron