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.

Sheet metal corner relief.

Bend relief synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked. Then added corner seams between the long and sides to set and equal gap but this pulls the corner style from the sheet metal defaults. With the flat pattern activated select insert sheet metal corner trim or select it from the corner button on the command manager toolbar.

With the hem at a width you have a remnant that is present so in the sheet metal default the remnant has to be modified. 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.

Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body. Corner relief corner reliefs can be added to a sheet metal part from within the part s flattened state. To create a relief locally you can select one or two hard edges one or two bends or a bend and a hard edge. The selected items can be a 3d solid with sheet metal features a face or a hard edge of the solid.

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. Solidworks sheet metal corner relief solidworks sheet metal corner treatment in this solidworks sheet metal corner relief tutorial we are going to learn how. If a 3d solid is selected the command recognizes the places where corner or bend reliefs are needed and creates them automatically.