Corner Relief In Sheet Metal

When sheet metal makes a transition from a bend to a flat surface or to another bend it tends to rip and tear.

Corner relief in sheet metal.

Creates a corner relief where three bends meet at one common point. To eliminate this a bend relief is added so the edge of the sheet metal is perpendicular to the bend. At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked. Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body.

You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body. Bends in sheet metal are manufactured using sheet metal brakes. To get a corner relief you ve got to have a corner. Select an item see the note below.

A 1 degree tolerance on all bend angles. Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu. Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief. Click insert sheet metal corner relief.

The corner relief is applied at the common intersection point of the bend lines. When designing parts for laser cutting one should not make holes smaller than the thickness of the material. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar. Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model.

Creates a corner relief where two bends meet. Sheet metal parts with a minimum of 0 9mm to 20mm in thickness can be manufactured. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs auto. Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word.

For example if you make a partial flange as above using all the defaults the software makes relief cuts at the end of the bends as shown to the right. However a common point of confusion when using sheet metal functions is the difference between the auto relief and corner treatment tools. In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014. Sheet metal functionality within solidworks provides designers with powerful tools to create accurate formable models of their designs.

In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the corner relief. The model must have three bends where the bend lines meet.