Corner Relief In Sheet Metal

When designing parts for laser cutting one should not make holes smaller than the thickness of the material.

Corner relief in sheet metal.

Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body. The model must have three bends where the bend lines meet. Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief. Sheet metal functionality within solidworks provides designers with powerful tools to create accurate formable models of their designs.

Creates a corner relief where three bends meet at one common point. 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. Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model. Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab.

The corner relief is applied at the common intersection point of the bend lines. In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014. Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar.

You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body. A 1 degree tolerance on all bend angles. To get a corner relief you ve got to have a corner. In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the corner relief.

Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs auto. 1 solidworks tutorial for b. Bends in sheet metal are manufactured using sheet metal brakes. Click insert sheet metal corner relief.

We will learn sheet metal basic features like base flange edge flange corner relief and extruded cut in solidworks sheet metal. However a common point of confusion when using sheet metal functions is the difference between the auto relief and corner treatment tools. Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu. In this article we are going to explore how the feature is applied to the part to create the appropriate relief.

At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked.