Sheet Metal Relief Corners

You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body.

Sheet metal relief corners.

The corner relief is converted. Hover over a neighboring flange or bend or a face of the corner relief. Sometimes this notch is used for parts with a large bend radius. Edit corners in sheet metal features.

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 the desired relief type in sheet metal command group in the quad. Relief helps to control sheet metal material behavior and to prevent unwanted deformation during unbend operations. In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the corner relief.

Another notch which we will call a relief notch is set back relieved a certain dimension from the edge. You can apply corner relief automatically to all corners or manually to individual sets of corners. Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar. Solidworks sheet metal corner relief solidworks sheet metal corner treatment in this solidworks sheet metal corner relief tutorial we are going to learn how to make sheet metal part using corner.

In general a minimum bend relief is equal to the material thickness plus the inside bend radius. Make sure the select faces option of the selectionmodes system variable is selected. Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. If the command has been called from the ribbon the command repeats the main prompt until you press the esc key to stop.

Click the corner edit glyph for your selected corner. Use the corner relief tool to add relief to one or more corners of a sheet metal part. Do one of the following. Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief.

Click insert sheet metal corner relief. To open the corner relief propertymanager. The corner edit dialog box lets you can specify an overlap type overlap gap relief type and relief size that differ from your sheet metal style or from the default value specified in the active sheet metal style. If it is ok for the metal to rip the minimum bend relief is zero.

Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body. At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked. Use the corner relief propertymanager to apply corner treatments to a folded sheet metal body that persist in the flattened state. In this article we are going to explore how the feature is applied to the part to create the appropriate relief.

In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014. Normally that dimension is called out on the blueprint. When you add relief sheet metal sections are removed from the model. To specify an overlap that differs from the value specified select overlap type in the corner edit dialog box.