At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked.
Corner relief in sheet metal.
Sheet metal functionality within solidworks provides designers with powerful tools to create accurate formable models of their designs.
The corner relief is applied at the common intersection point of the bend lines.
Select an item see the note below.
To get a corner relief you ve got to have a corner.
In general a minimum bend relief is equal to the material thickness plus the inside bend radius.
Creates a corner relief where two bends meet.
To eliminate this a bend relief is added so the edge of the sheet metal is perpendicular to the bend.
Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word.
In this article we are going to explore how the feature is applied to the part to create the appropriate relief.
Click insert sheet metal corner relief.
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.
Creates a corner relief where three bends meet at one common point.
The model must have three bends where the bend lines meet.
However a common point of confusion when using sheet metal functions is the difference between the auto relief and corner treatment tools.
When designing parts for laser cutting one should not make holes smaller than the thickness of the material.
Type smreliefcreate in the command bar.
Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model.
A 1 degree tolerance on all bend angles.
Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs auto.
In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the corner relief.
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.
Bends in sheet metal are manufactured using sheet metal brakes.
Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab.
Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu.
You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body.
