Corner Relief In Sheet Metal

Bends in sheet metal are manufactured using sheet metal brakes.

Corner relief in sheet metal.

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. Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model. When designing parts for laser cutting one should not make holes smaller than the thickness of the material.

Select an item see the note below. We will learn sheet metal basic features like base flange edge flange corner relief and extruded cut in solidworks sheet metal. 1 solidworks tutorial for b. Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab.

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. A 1 degree tolerance on all bend angles. At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked.

Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. Sheet metal parts with a minimum of 0 9mm to 20mm in thickness can be manufactured. Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu. 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.

Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body. Creates a corner relief where three bends meet at one common point. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs auto. The model must have three bends where the bend lines meet.

Click insert sheet metal corner relief. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar. To get a corner relief you ve got to have a corner. You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body.

In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014.