- Client
- Process engineering company, Ahmedabad (name withheld under NDA)
- Industry
- Sheet Metal & Steel Fabrication
- Service
- Sheet Metal & Fabrication
- Platform
- SolidWorks, AutoCAD
- Client region
- India
- Canopies
- Cooling tower pump motor, feed/CIP pump motor
- Parts
- Roof sheet, legs, covers, wire-mesh plates and mesh
- Outputs
- Fabrication drawings, flat-pattern DXFs
The challenge
The canopies protect motors outdoors and must be easy to lift off for maintenance, with mesh sides for ventilation. The customer wanted them drawn in their own title block with their standard notes so the fabricator saw a familiar sheet, and wanted DXFs ready for laser cutting.
Our approach
Each canopy was modelled as a SolidWorks sheet-metal assembly: a folded roof sheet with a 20° pitch, four legs, cover panels and wire-mesh plates with the mesh modelled as a reference part. Flat patterns were generated with the fabricator's bend table, and the drawings — 001-00 and 003-00 series — were issued with an 8-item and 5-item BOM, weights and the customer's standard de-burr and edge-break notes.
What was delivered
Both canopy types were fabricated from the drawings and DXFs without queries; the customer keeps the models to size further canopies for other motor frames.
- Sheet-metal assemblies in SolidWorks
- Fabrication drawings with BOM and weights
- Flat-pattern DXFs
- STEP export
Standards and conventions applied
- Customer title block and standard notes
- ISO 2768 general tolerances
- Fabricator bend table
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