Corner Relief Sheet Metal

The corner relief is applied at the common intersection point of the bend lines.

Corner relief sheet metal.

Creates a corner relief where two bends meet. Sheet metal functionality within solidworks provides designers with powerful tools to create accurate formable models of their designs. At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar.

1 solidworks tutorial for b. The model must have three bends where the bend lines meet. In general a minimum bend relief is equal to the material thickness plus the inside bend radius. Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model.

In this article we are going to explore how the feature is applied to the part to create the appropriate relief. 3d cad files are converted into machine code which controls a machine to precisely cut and form the sheets into the final part. 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. Sheet metal fabrication is the process of forming parts from a metal sheet by punching cutting stamping and bending.

Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body. Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu. Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab.

Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief. Do one of the following. Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs.

Creates a corner relief where three bends meet at one common point. We will learn sheet metal basic features like base flange edge flange corner relief and extruded cut in solidworks sheet metal. However a common point of confusion when using sheet metal functions is the difference between the auto relief and corner treatment tools. Select an item see the note below.

Click insert sheet metal corner relief. In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014.