Sheet Metal Corner Relief

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Sheet metal corner relief. You can specify the corner relief shape for a 2 or 3 bend corner. The corner tab lets you override default parameters in the sheet metal styles dialog box. Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar.

3d cad files are converted into machine code which controls a machine to precisely cut and form the sheets into the final part. We will learn sheet metal basic features like base flange edge flange corner relief and extruded cut in solidworks sheet metal. 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 this article we are going to explore how the feature is applied to the part to create the appropriate relief. Select an item see the note below. When you apply a relief option to the selected corner the list shows the option applied. Lets you select the sheet metal body to which the corner relief is applied.

Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body. You can also specify the relief size and whether to apply auto mitering. In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014. At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked.

Sheet metal fabrication is the process of forming parts from a metal sheet by punching cutting stamping and bending. 1 solidworks tutorial for b. Override sheet metal style settings for corner shape and relief. Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu.

Lists corners to which you can apply corner relief. However a common point of confusion when using sheet metal functions is the difference between the auto relief and corner treatment tools. When you select a corner it 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.