+Pro/SHEETMETAL Training

Course Duration: 16 Hours

Tuition: $1200.00 US

Overview: Pro/SHEETMETAL is an optional module of Pro/ENGINEER. It enables you to design basic and complex parts in sheet metal. Add sheet metal-specific features like walls, bends, cuts, punches, notches, hems, and forms in either the formed or flat condition. 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
• Learn Bends and unbends
• Learn Extruded Walls
• Learn Flange Walls
• Relief's - No Relief - Stretch -Rip - Rect - Obrnd
• Rips
• Hems
• Bend, Unbend, Bend Back
• Learn Form Features

Exercise:

• Layout and develop Pivot Bracket. 3/32" Aluminum bracket then add a Flat State instance.
• Build bracket with bends and extruded walls.
• Model dust cover for back of computer using stamp (Form features)

Discussion:

• Discuss differences between Pro/ENGINEER thin features and Pro/SHEETMETAL
• Discuss designing sheetmetal 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 4.0 iconography.

Project: Several Brackets, Deep drawn form and combination. Curriculum can be combined with Pro/SURFACE tools for automobile sheetmetal functions or for smaller battery contacts

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