Sheet Metal Corner Relief

You can also specify the relief size and whether to apply auto mitering.

Sheet metal corner relief.

Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model. Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body. At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs.

1 solidworks tutorial for b. Override sheet metal style settings for corner shape and relief. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar. Sheet metal functionality within solidworks provides designers with powerful tools to create accurate formable models of their designs.

When you select a corner it is highlighted in the graphics area. 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. 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. Select an item see the note below. We will learn sheet metal basic features like base flange edge flange corner relief and extruded cut in solidworks sheet metal. 3d cad files are converted into machine code which controls a machine to precisely cut and form the sheets into the final part.

Lists corners to which you can apply corner relief. Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu. Sheet metal fabrication is the process of forming parts from a metal sheet by punching cutting stamping and bending. If you list multiple corners you can specify multiple corner relief treatments.

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. In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014. When you apply a relief option to the selected corner the list shows the option applied. The corner tab lets you override default parameters in the sheet metal styles dialog box.

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