Relief Cut Sheet Metal

Sheet metal parts may have sharp corners but designing a fillet of the material s thickness will make parts more cost effective.

Relief cut sheet metal.

Then i would have to come back and draw a sketch on top of the sheet metal where there is not a relief cut and add another thickness of sheet metal. Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. The drawing attached actually has a double relief cut so i would have to add 01 thickness and then do another sketch on top of that layer and add another 045 layer of material. Bend 1 shows a a tear relief.

When sheet metal makes a transition from a bend to a flat surface or to another bend it tends to rip and tear. To eliminate this a bend relief is added so the edge of the sheet metal is perpendicular to the bend. It obviously won t accept it because i am not doing it right. Sheet metal relief cut need to lay a flat pattern of a sheet metal part with a flange with a cut because it is not full length of the original face.

Please take a look at the picture i m hopeful someone who works with sheet metal commonly will enjoy the kudos and. 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. Bend 2 shows a rectangular relief cut into the part the depth of the relief should be greater than the radius of the bend. In general a minimum bend relief is equal to the material thickness plus the inside bend radius.