Sheet Metal Corner Relief

You can also specify the relief size and whether to apply auto mitering.

Sheet metal corner relief.

Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu. We will learn sheet metal basic features like base flange edge flange corner relief and extruded cut in solidworks sheet metal. When you apply a relief option to the selected corner the list shows the option applied. Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word.

Lets you select the sheet metal body to which the corner relief is applied. 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. Lists corners to which you can apply corner relief.

Override sheet metal style settings for corner shape and relief. 3d cad files are converted into machine code which controls a machine to precisely cut and form the sheets into the final part. Sheet metal fabrication is the process of forming parts from a metal sheet by punching cutting stamping and bending. Select an item see the note below.

1 solidworks tutorial for b. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar. When you select a corner in the corners section the faces that define the corner are shown in the define corner section and the corner is highlighted in the graphics area. Do one of the following.

Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs. When you select a corner it is highlighted in the graphics area. However a common point of confusion when using sheet metal functions is the difference between the auto relief and corner treatment tools.

Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab. 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. 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.