Corner Relief In Sheet Metal

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Corner relief in sheet metal.

Creates a corner relief where three bends meet at one common point. A 1 degree tolerance on all bend angles. Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief. When designing parts for laser cutting one should not make holes smaller than the thickness of the material.

In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014. The corner relief is applied at the common intersection point of the bend lines. Sheet metal functionality within solidworks provides designers with powerful tools to create accurate formable models of their designs. We will learn sheet metal basic features like base flange edge flange corner relief and extruded cut in solidworks sheet metal.

In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the corner relief. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar. Creates a corner relief where two bends meet. Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model.

Bends in sheet metal are manufactured using sheet metal brakes. However a common point of confusion when using sheet metal functions is the difference between the auto relief and corner treatment tools. The model must have three bends where the bend lines meet. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs auto.

At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked. Click insert sheet metal corner relief. Sheet metal parts with a minimum of 0 9mm to 20mm in thickness can be manufactured. 1 solidworks tutorial for b.

You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body. Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body. 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.

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.