Sheet Metal Relief

Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body.

Sheet metal relief.

Preventing tearing and part deformation during the bending process. One benefit of a bend relief is that it makes the part easier to produce. In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the corner relief. Hems are most often used to remove a sharp untreated edge and make it safe for handling.

In sheet metal hems are used to create folds in sheet metal in order to stiffen edges and create an edge safe to touch. Normally that dimension is called out on the blueprint. 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. If a 3d solid is selected the command recognizes the places where corner or bend reliefs are needed and creates them automatically.

This is to keep the material from fracturing while forming the metal. Relief height is generally kept greater than two times of sheet thickness plus bend radius. You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body. Hems are commonly used to hide imperfections and provide a generally safer edge to handle.

Another notch which we will call a relief notch is set back relieved a certain dimension from the edge. Bend relief and collars near pierced areas strengthen sheet metal parts. Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief. To create a relief locally you can select one or two hard edges one or two bends or a bend and a hard edge.

The selected items can be a 3d solid with sheet metal features a face or a hard edge of the solid. The flange which does not have relief will result in a greater amount of distortion or tearing of the adjacent material. To eliminate this a bend relief is added so the edge of the sheet metal is perpendicular to the bend. Extrude hole size position guidelines.

During the bending of sheet metal material around the bend tends to stretch and deform. In sheet metal a bend relief is an incision cut along the sides of a planned bend. If it is ok for the metal to rip the minimum bend relief is zero. Bend relief in sheet metal bend bend relief is provided at the end of bending edge in sheet metal design to avoid any crack tearing in the corner.

Though bend relief lengths and widths vary between projects they all share a common goal. Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word.