Corner Relief In Sheet Metal

Creates a corner relief where three bends meet at one common point.

Corner relief in sheet metal.

In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the corner relief. Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab. Sheet metal functionality within solidworks provides designers with powerful tools to create accurate formable models of their designs.

The model must have three bends where the bend lines meet. To get a corner relief you ve got to have a corner. However a common point of confusion when using sheet metal functions is the difference between the auto relief and corner treatment tools. Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body.

Type smreliefcreate in the command bar. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs auto. 1 solidworks tutorial for b. In this article we are going to explore how the feature is applied to the part to create the appropriate relief.

Select an item see the note below. A 1 degree tolerance on all bend angles. Creates a corner relief where two bends meet. We will learn sheet metal basic features like base flange edge flange corner relief and extruded cut in solidworks sheet metal.

Sheet metal parts with a minimum of 0 9mm to 20mm in thickness can be manufactured. You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body. When designing parts for laser cutting one should not make holes smaller than the thickness of the material. In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014.

Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model. Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief. Click insert sheet metal corner relief. 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.

Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu.