Sheet Metal Corner Relief

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Sheet metal corner relief.

Sheet metal fabrication is the process of forming parts from a metal sheet by punching cutting stamping and bending. Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model. If you list multiple corners you can specify multiple corner relief treatments. Sheet metal functionality within solidworks provides designers with powerful tools to create accurate formable models of their designs.

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. However a common point of confusion when using sheet metal functions is the difference between the auto relief and corner treatment tools. 3d cad files are converted into machine code which controls a machine to precisely cut and form the sheets into the final part. Lets you select the sheet metal body to which the corner relief is applied.

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. Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab. Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu. When you apply a relief option to the selected corner the list shows the option applied.

Type smreliefcreate in the command bar. We will learn sheet metal basic features like base flange edge flange corner relief and extruded cut in solidworks sheet metal. Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. Do one of the following.

You can also specify the relief size and whether to apply auto mitering. 1 solidworks tutorial for b. Lists corners to which you can apply corner relief. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs.

The corner tab lets you override default parameters in the sheet metal styles dialog box. At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked. In this article we are going to explore how the feature is applied to the part to create the appropriate 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.