Corner Relief Sheet Metal

Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body.

Corner relief sheet metal.

The model must have three bends where the bend lines meet. Creates a corner relief where two bends meet. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs auto. Corner relief sheet metal solidworks 2016 duration.

Type smreliefcreate in the command bar. Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab. Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief. Avt 206 a p p2 developing sheet metal flats.

Select an item see the note below. 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. Creates a corner relief where three bends meet at one common point. At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked.

Click insert sheet metal corner relief. However a common point of confusion when using sheet metal functions is the difference between the auto relief and corner treatment tools. You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body. Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu.

Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model. Mechanical engineering 3 081 views. Sheet metal functionality within solidworks provides designers with powerful tools to create accurate formable models of their designs. The corner relief is applied at the common intersection point of the bend lines.

In this article we are going to explore how the feature is applied to the part to create the appropriate relief.