Corner Relief In Sheet Metal

You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body.

Corner relief in sheet metal.

Select an item see the note below. Bends in sheet metal are manufactured using sheet metal brakes. At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked. Creates a corner relief where three bends meet at one common point.

Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab. However a common point of confusion when using sheet metal functions is the difference between the auto relief and corner treatment tools. When sheet metal makes a transition from a bend to a flat surface or to another bend it tends to rip and tear. Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu.

Sheet metal functionality within solidworks provides designers with powerful tools to create accurate formable models of their designs. Click insert sheet metal corner relief. Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model. In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the 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. Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs auto.

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. To get a corner relief you ve got to have a corner. A 1 degree tolerance on all bend angles. Sheet metal parts with a minimum of 0 9mm to 20mm in thickness can be manufactured.

Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. Creates a corner relief where two bends meet. In general a minimum bend relief is equal to the material thickness plus the inside bend radius. In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014.

The model must have three bends where the bend lines meet. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar.