Relief Cut Sheet Metal

Bend 2 shows a rectangular relief cut into the part the depth of the relief should be greater than the radius of the bend.

Relief cut sheet metal.

The width of the relief should be the material thickness or greater. The drawing attached actually has a double relief cut so i would have to add 01 thickness and then do another sketch on top of that layer and add another 045 layer of material. Sheet metal parts may have sharp corners but designing a fillet of the material s thickness will make parts more cost effective. It obviously won t accept it because i am not doing it right.

To eliminate this a bend relief is added so the edge of the sheet metal is perpendicular to the bend. When sheet metal makes a transition from a bend to a flat surface or to another bend it tends to rip and tear. Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. Relief cuts help parts avoid overhangs and tearing at.

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. Then i would have to come back and draw a sketch on top of the sheet metal where there is not a relief cut and add another thickness of sheet metal. Please take a look at the picture i m hopeful someone who works with sheet metal commonly will enjoy the kudos and. Sheet metal relief cut need to lay a flat pattern of a sheet metal part with a flange with a cut because it is not full length of the original face.