Corner Relief Sheet Metal

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Corner relief sheet metal.

Sheet metal functionality within solidworks provides designers with powerful tools to create accurate formable models of their designs. 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. Mechanical engineering 3 081 views.

The corner relief is applied at the common intersection point of the bend lines. Click insert sheet metal corner relief. Avt 206 a p p2 developing sheet metal flats. Corner relief sheet metal solidworks 2016 duration.

Creates a corner relief where two bends meet. You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body. In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the corner relief. Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model.

Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu. Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar.

Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body. However a common point of confusion when using sheet metal functions is the difference between the auto relief and corner treatment tools. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs auto. Creates a corner relief where three bends meet at one common point.

In this article we are going to explore how the feature is applied to the part to create the appropriate relief.