Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab.
Corner relief in sheet metal.
Creates a corner relief where three bends meet at one common point.
In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014.
Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model.
Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word.
Sheet metal functionality within solidworks provides designers with powerful tools to create accurate formable models of their designs.
The model must have three bends where the bend lines meet.
When designing parts for laser cutting one should not make holes smaller than the thickness of the material.
You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body.
At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked.
We will learn sheet metal basic features like base flange edge flange corner relief and extruded cut in solidworks sheet metal.
To get a corner relief you ve got to have a corner.
Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or 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.
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.
Sheet metal parts with a minimum of 0 9mm to 20mm in thickness can be manufactured.
Bends in sheet metal are manufactured using sheet metal brakes.
Click insert sheet metal corner relief.
In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the corner relief.
Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs auto.
A 1 degree tolerance on all bend angles.
Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body.
In this article we are going to explore how the feature is applied to the part to create the appropriate relief.
The corner relief is applied at the common intersection point of the bend lines.
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