Closed Sheet Metal Box Design

Drawing a sheet metal box in solidworks 2010.

Closed sheet metal box design.

The box i have my students create in class ends up being 5 5 x 2 x 3 5. A 1 degree tolerance on all bend angles. The patterns for a cardboard box will look very similar to what you need to plan out for the sheet metal box. Please subscribe our c.

Bends in sheet metal are manufactured using sheet metal brakes. Sheet metal boxes are two part enclosures made by cutting metal sheets and then bending the resulting parts using a press brake to form a box. When designing parts for laser cutting one should not make holes smaller than the thickness of the material. Sheet metal parts with a minimum of 0 9mm to 20mm in thickness can be manufactured.

To make things easy for my students i designed our classroom box so it would be able to work on the size of a standard 8 5 x 11 piece of paper. In this tutorial video i will sketch power box chassis in solidworks with the help of sketch and sheet metal tools i hope you like it. Factors affecting tolerances include material thickness machines used and number of steps in part production. Understanding the comprehensive performance of materials and the correct material selection have an important impact on product cost product performance product quality and processability.

Next month concludes with the pros and cons of hems jogs and forming tools. By adding cutouts for ports switches ventilation or mounting these versatile and cost effective enclosures can be used in applications ranging from electronics to robotics. Sheet metal materials are the most commonly used materials in the structural design of communication products. Sheet metal tolerances are far more generous than machining or 3d printing tolerances.