Sheet Metal Relief

To eliminate this a bend relief is added so the edge of the sheet metal is perpendicular to the bend.

Sheet metal relief.

Lists corners to which you can apply corner relief. Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar. When sheet metal makes a transition from a bend to a flat surface or to another bend it tends to rip and tear.

Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model. Select an item see the note below. In sheet metal a bend relief is an incision cut along the sides of a planned bend. In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the corner relief.

In general a minimum bend relief is equal to the material thickness plus the inside bend radius. Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body. 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 apply a relief option to the selected corner the list shows the option applied.

Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab. You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body. Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief. Lets you select the sheet metal body to which the corner relief is applied.

Do one of the following. Though bend relief lengths and widths vary between projects they all share a common goal. Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu.