Sheet Metal Corner Relief

About corner relief use the corner relief tool to add relief to one or more corners of a sheet metal part.

Sheet metal corner relief.

Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu. At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked. 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.

When you add relief sheet metal sections are removed from the model. In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the corner relief. Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief. You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body.

Select an item see the note below. 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. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs auto auto. With the flat pattern activated select insert sheet metal corner trim or select it from the corner button on the command manager toolbar.

Type smreliefcreate in the command bar. You can apply corner relief automatically to all corners or manually to individual sets of corners. 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 this article we are going to explore how the feature is applied to the part to create the appropriate relief.