Corner Relief Sheet Metal

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

Corner relief sheet metal.

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. You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body. Corner relief sheet metal solidworks 2016 duration.

Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs auto. Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar.

Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model. In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014. In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the corner relief. Click insert sheet metal corner relief.

Select an item see the note below. 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. 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. Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu. However a common point of confusion when using sheet metal functions is the difference between the auto relief and corner treatment tools.

Creates a corner relief where two bends meet.