+Pro/SHEETMETAL Training

Course Duration: 16 Hours

Tuition: $1200 US

Overview: This comprehensive suite of sheet metal design tools in Pro/ENGINEER-Foundation helps users create features such as walls, bends, punches, notches, forms, and relief features. Using a variety of Y and K factor bend allowance calculations, designers can create flat patterns of the designs. The result is parametric, fully associative solid models of sheet metal parts and assemblies. Students have the option to customize this course to fit project requirements.

Prerequisites: 400 hours minimum experience with Pro/ENGINEER and a willingness to learn.

Topics:

• Basics of Pro/SHEETMETAL
• Bends
• Extruded walls
• Swept walls
• Relief's, no relief, stretch, rip, rect, obrnd
• Rips
• Hems
• Bend, unbend, bend back
• Form features

Exercise:

• Layout and develop Pivot Bracket. 3/32" Aluminum bracket then add a Flat State instance.
• Build another bracket with bends and extruded walls with a variety of challenges.
• Model dust cover for back of computer using stamp (Form features)
• Create multiple parts that lock together such as a sheet metal computer power supply.
• convert to sheet metal an enclosure from a solid geometry and discuss a wide variety of convert tools.
  

This bracket has several challenges for beginning sheet metal users.

Discussion:

• Discuss differences between Pro/ENGINEER thin features and Pro/SHEETMETAL
• Discuss designing sheet metal parts
• Flatten out the part to visualize design and manufacturing needs.
• Make Drawings of the sheet metal part, incorporating Dimensions, Bend Order tables, Flat Patterns and fully designed parts.
• Discuss order of feature creation
• Discuss why rips are important with respect to stretching
• Discuss warn out tooling and how to compensate using Bend Tables
• Discuss 2001 and Wildfire or Wildfire 2.0 iconography.
  
• Discuss modeling techniques such as starting out with non sheet metal models and converting to sheet metal later to take advantage of shell features.

Project: Several Brackets, Deep drawn form and combination. Curriculum can be combined with Pro/SURFACE tools for automobile sheet metal functions or for smaller battery contacts to mating components such as sheet metal boxes to house a computer power supply.

Pro/SHEETMETAL, like Pro/ENGINEER, allows flexibility in design. Changes are made and updated parametrically throughout the entire design process.

This video pivot offers several road blocks for designers learning sheet metal and for the the experienced alike.

This power supply uses a form feature to push out the fan area.
A good third project for this two day sheet metal workshop.

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