Corner Relief In Sheet Metal

Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief.

Corner relief in sheet metal.

When designing parts for laser cutting one should not make holes smaller than the thickness of the material. 1 solidworks tutorial for b. In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs auto.

A 1 degree tolerance on all bend angles. The model must have three bends where the bend lines meet. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar. Bends in sheet metal are manufactured using sheet metal brakes.

To get a corner relief you ve got to have a corner. Click insert sheet metal corner relief. However a common point of confusion when using sheet metal functions is the difference between the auto relief and corner treatment tools. At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked.

Creates a corner relief where three bends meet at one common point. Sheet metal parts with a minimum of 0 9mm to 20mm in thickness can be manufactured. 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.

Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab. Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. We will learn sheet metal basic features like base flange edge flange corner relief and extruded cut in solidworks sheet metal. Sheet metal functionality within solidworks provides designers with powerful tools to create accurate formable models of their designs.

Select an item see the note below. Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model. 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.

Creates a corner relief where two bends meet.