industrial Metal sheet cabinet conception guideline.

The first step to understanding the design of sheet metal cabinets as per the examples you have given is to gain a knowledge of the tools and processes used in sheet metal manufacturing. These will be laser cutting, turret punches, sheet metal guilotines pressbrakes, folders, rollers, how these tools work their limitations as it is import to design things that can be made as cheaply and efficiently as possible. Spot weling is good where possible as is cheap and does not cause too many distortion problems. Large welds will always cause distortion problems. Riveting is often a good way of joining parts.

When at school much of this knowledge will come from books and your tutors. If you become employed by a sheet metal manufacturer the best thing is to get out into the factory, observe the men working, talk to the workers and become familiar with how the work is done, even better if you can get your hands dirty and learn to use some of this tooling. It is always best if your designs fit in with the tooling at hand.

The last place I worked before I retire.d was a small sheet metal works. If I was tasked to produce designs for cabinets as per your examples I would look a the available tooling to make certain it could be made with the equipment available, in a different works with different tooling some of the detais would be designed differently to suit their avalable tooling