Sheet Metal Corner Relief Size

Type smreliefcreate in the command bar.

Sheet metal corner relief size.

It is recommended that the diameter of the hole should be equal or more than the thickness of the sheet metal. You can also specify the relief size and whether to apply auto mitering. In this article we are going to explore how the feature is applied to the part to create the appropriate relief. Corner fillets relief cuts.

If you use the close 2 bend corner tool you can take the two corner types shown above and they will look like the closed corner shown below with the flat pattern to the right. Small hole size in sheet metal requires smaller size punching tool which may leads to break during the operation. Do one of the following. Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu.

At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked. In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014. Select an item see the note below. Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model.

Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab. You can specify the corner relief shape for a 2 or 3 bend corner. Override sheet metal style settings for corner shape and relief.