Sheet Metal Corner Relief

Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu.

Sheet metal corner relief.

Lists corners to which you can apply corner relief. 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. Lets you select the sheet metal body to which the corner relief is applied.

You can specify the corner relief shape for a 2 or 3 bend corner. In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014. The corner tab lets you override default parameters in the sheet metal styles dialog box. 3d cad files are converted into machine code which controls a machine to precisely cut and form the sheets into the final part.

1 solidworks tutorial for b. At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked. Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model. Sheet metal fabrication is the process of forming parts from a metal sheet by punching cutting stamping and bending.

Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab. Override sheet metal style settings for corner shape and relief. When you select a corner it is highlighted in the graphics area. Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body.

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 you list multiple corners you can specify multiple corner relief treatments. When you apply a relief option to the selected corner the list shows the option applied. You can also specify the relief size and whether to apply auto mitering.

When you select a corner in the corners section the faces that define the corner are shown in the define corner section and the corner is highlighted in the graphics area. 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. Do one of the following.

Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs.