Sheet Metal Corner Relief

With the flat pattern activated select insert sheet metal corner trim or select it from the corner button on the command manager toolbar.

Sheet metal corner relief.

When you add relief sheet metal sections are removed from the model. Bend relief synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body. In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the corner relief.

Select an item see the note below. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs auto auto. Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar.

How sheet metal corner reliefs are applied to the body in december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014. About corner relief use the corner relief tool to add relief to one or more corners of a sheet metal part. Individual corners can be selected or collect all corners can be used. Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu.

You can apply corner relief automatically to all corners or manually to individual sets of corners. Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model. Corner relief corner reliefs can be added to a sheet metal part from within the part s flattened state. 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.