Relief Cut Sheet Metal

Sheet metal parts may have sharp corners but designing a fillet of the material s thickness will make parts more cost effective.

Relief cut sheet metal.

To eliminate this a bend relief is added so the edge of the sheet metal is perpendicular to the bend. Sheet metal fabrication is the process of forming parts from a metal sheet by punching cutting stamping and bending. Bend 1 shows a a tear relief. 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 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. The width of the relief should be the material thickness or greater. 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. 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.

Please take a look at the picture i m hopeful someone who works with sheet metal commonly will enjoy the kudos and. It obviously won t accept it because i am not doing it right. Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. When sheet metal makes a transition from a bend to a flat surface or to another bend it tends to rip and tear.