Sheet Metal Corner Relief Size

In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014.

Sheet metal corner relief size.

Override sheet metal style settings for corner shape and relief. You can also specify the relief size and whether to apply auto mitering. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar. Do one of the following.

In this article we are going to explore how the feature is applied to the part to create the appropriate relief. The way this one works is that you select the tool first found on the home tab sheet metal group. If you use the close 2 bend corner tool you can take the two corner types shown above and they will look like the closed corner shown below with the flat pattern to the right. Select an item see the note below.

Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab. Small hole size in sheet metal requires smaller size punching tool which may leads to break during the operation. Corner fillets relief cuts. It is recommended that the diameter of the hole should be equal or more than the thickness of the sheet metal.

Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs. Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu. At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked.