Corner Relief In Sheet Metal Catia

This section explains how to change the bend corner relief.

Corner relief in sheet metal catia.

By default the circular profile is active. 1 the side edges can be cutoff and then a bend can be made along the longer sheet edge. Define corner will auto populate faces that define the corner. The corner relief definition dialog box is displayed.

Support 1 2 3 specifies the supports for the corner relief centers defines the center location for a circular profile radius defines the radius for a circular profile. Bend relief is provided at the end of bending edge in sheet metal design to avoid any crack tearing in the corner. Relief height is generally kept greater than two times of sheet thickness plus bend radius. As per sheet metal design thumb rules the depth of bend relief should be greater than or equal to the inside bend radius of the bend and the width of the bend relief should be the same as the sheet metal thickness or more.

When a bend is applied close to the outer sheet edge there is a high probability that a tear will occur. Click sheet metal parameters. Select collect all corners will populate all corners that fall into corner selection. Within the tools options general parameters knowledge tab check the load extended language libraries option.

Would just like to add few extra points the use of corner relief is to avoid tear. Creating a local corner relief. Extrude hole size position guidelines creating an extruded hole using a punching process requires extreme pressure force. Scope is the selection of the sheetmetal option.

Click corner relief. Select the corner type will separate the type of corner reliefs available for 2 bend or 3 bend.