Sheet Metal Corner Relief

Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body.

Sheet metal corner relief.

In this article we are going to explore how the feature is applied to the part to create the appropriate relief. At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked. 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.

Individual corners can be selected or collect all corners can be used. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar. About corner relief use the corner relief tool to add relief to one or more corners of a sheet metal part. Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief.

You can apply corner relief automatically to all corners or manually to individual sets of corners. 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. Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab.

Corner relief corner reliefs can be added to a sheet metal part from within the part s flattened state. Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu. 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. When you add relief sheet metal sections are removed from the model.

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