Corner Relief In Sheet Metal

The model must have three bends where the bend lines meet.

Corner relief in sheet metal.

In this article we are going to explore how the feature is applied to the part to create the appropriate relief. Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs auto. Click insert sheet metal corner relief.

In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the corner relief. To eliminate this a bend relief is added so the edge of the sheet metal is perpendicular to the bend. 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. In general a minimum bend relief is equal to the material thickness plus the inside bend radius.

Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu. You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body. Select an item see the note below. Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body.

Sheet metal functionality within solidworks provides designers with powerful tools to create accurate formable models of their designs. Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab. When designing parts for laser cutting one should not make holes smaller than the thickness of the material. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar.

However a common point of confusion when using sheet metal functions is the difference between the auto relief and corner treatment tools. Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief. In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014. Creates a corner relief where two bends meet.

The corner relief is applied at the common intersection point of the bend lines. When sheet metal makes a transition from a bend to a flat surface or to another bend it tends to rip and tear. Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. Creates a corner relief where three bends meet at one common point.

Bends in sheet metal are manufactured using sheet metal brakes. At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked.